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Sdegno, Emma, Martina Frank, Pierre-Henry Frangne, and Myriam Pilutti Namer. John Ruskin’s Europe. A Collection of Cross-Cultural Essays With an Introductory Lecture by Salvatore Settis. Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-487-5.

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Ruskin’s work is strongly inscribed in the great European context, marking an important moment in the movement for the establishment of a community culture and spirit. The essays collected here intend to place the theme of Ruskin’s fruitful and essential relationship with Europe at the centre of a critical reflection, presenting themselves as opportunities for an in-depth study and a discussion on issues related to aesthetics, the protection of material and immaterial heritage, cultural and literary memory. By bringing to the attention of the scientific community the multiple aspects – geograp

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Chaker, Sarah, and Axel Petri-Preis, eds. Tuning up! The Innovative Potential of Musikvermittlung. transcript Verlag, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839456811.

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Professional musicians who perform in hospitals, retirement homes and prisons, creatively stimulated by the residents; babies crawling over exercise mats, enjoying classical music together with their parents; concert-goers who take their seats between the musicians in order to experience music up close with all their senses - the opportunities to make and experience music are almost unlimited. Various actors in the field of classical music have taken this as a chance to develop a wide range of new artistic and educational practices over the last two decades, aiming to facilitate in-depth aesth

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Redner, Harry. Aesthetic Life: The Past and Present of Artistic Cultures. University Press of America, 2007.

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Redner, Harry. Aesthetic Life: The Past and Present of Artistic Cultures. University Press of America, 2007.

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Koepnick, Lutz. Culture in the Shadow of Trauma? Edited by Helmut Walser Smith. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199237395.013.0031.

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In the ruins of World War II, culture was meant to mend the spiritual wounds and traumatic losses of everyday life by providing meanings and orientations unscathed by the functionalization of aesthetic culture during the Nazi era. This article focuses on the culture ballgame cast under the shadow of trauma raged by the war and its aftermath. Art, literature, theater, film, and music, in both emerging Germanys, were no doubt embraced as conduits for a resurrection of the spirit. However, the traumas left by the immediate past led artistic practitioners and their recipients alike to believe that

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Dobrogoszcz, Tomasz, Agata Handley, and Tomasz Fisiak. Aesthetic Amalgams and Political Pursuits. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798765109533.

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This open access book illustrates how intertextuality in music videos can be used to create new aesthetic patterns and develop a political agenda. In an age when most people are immersed in popular culture, music videos often bridge the gap between readily accessible and more demanding artistic forms. Music videos can sensitize the audience to various eminent themes, motifs, and artistic conventions by means of transferring them into a familiar medium. The efficacy of this process is enhanced through the use of intertextual references to other culture products, whereby meanings are conveyed in

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Lopes, Dominic McIver, Samantha Matherne, Mohan Matthen, and Bence Nanay, eds. The Geography of Taste. Oxford University PressNew York, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197509067.001.0001.

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Abstract Aesthetic and artistic preferences and practices vary widely between individuals and between cultures. To enjoy flamenco, for example, requires an entirely different cognitive approach and emotional attitude than that required to appreciate Bharatanatyam. In this collaborative work, four philosophers reconceive the philosophy of art and aesthetics by taking aesthetic diversity and cultural specificity, rather than universality, as the starting points of inquiry. Why are aesthetic and artistic responses so diverse? To what extent might they originate in universal human capacities? Can

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Aesthetic life: The past and present of artistic cultures. University Press of America, 2008.

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Bolden, Tony. Groove Theory. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496830524.001.0001.

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Tony Bolden presents an innovative history of funk music focused on the performers, regarding them as intellectuals who fashioned a new aesthetic. Utilizing musicology, literary studies, performance studies, and African American intellectual history, Bolden explores what it means for music, or any cultural artifact, to be funky. Multitudes of African American musicians and dancers created aesthetic frameworks with artistic principles and cultural politics that proved transformative. Bolden approaches the study of funk and black musicians by examining aesthetics, poetics, cultural history, and

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Weir, David. Decadence: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780190610227.001.0001.

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Decadence: A Very Short Introduction provides an overview of the culture of decadence—the artistic expression of a conflicted sense of modernity—by tracing its origin in ancient Rome, development in nineteenth-century Paris and London, manifestation in early-twentieth-century Vienna and Weimar Berlin, and current resonance in contemporary life. It explores conflicting attitudes toward modernity in decadent culture by examining both aesthetic decadence—the excess of artifice—and social decadence, which involves excess in many forms, whether perversely pleasurable or gratuitously cruel. The inte

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Lopes, Dominic McIver. Aesthetics in Three Dimensions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198796657.003.0002.

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This chapter begins with a historical overview of aesthetics and the philosophy of art before turning to a discussion of how the philosophy of art bears upon human culture. It then considers the methods used in attacking problems in aesthetics and the philosophy of art by highlighting the distinctions between pure and applied philosophy, between internal and external perspectives on aesthetic and artistic phenomena, and between first-order and second-order methods. It also examines how aesthetics and the philosophy of art are affected as the arts evolve and as empirical studies of aesthetic an

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Мальов, С. Формування естетичної компетентності дітей молодшого шкільного віку. VSPU, 2024. https://doi.org/10.31652/978-617-558-183-4-1-120.

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The methodological manual highlights the current problems of forming aesthetic competence of a younger schoolchild, the search for new approaches to teaching and raising children and their implementation in the educational process of a modern primary school, the maximum use of the creative potential of students in primary school, the formation and development of aesthetic perception of reality in schoolchildren, aesthetic attitude to the environment, nature, art, application of the principle of correlation of different types of art. An experimental methodology is proposed, aimed at the develop

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Lopes, Dominic McIver. Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art. Edited by Herman Cappelen, Tamar Szabó Gendler, and John Hawthorne. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199668779.013.11.

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This article focuses on aesthetics and the philosophy of art as branches of so-called analytic philosophy. It begins with a historical overview of aesthetics and the philosophy of art before turning to a discussion of how the philosophy of art bears upon human culture. It then considers the methods used in attacking problems in aesthetics and the philosophy of art by highlighting the distinctions between pure and applied philosophy, between internal and external perspectives on aesthetic and artistic phenomena, and between first-order and second-order methods. It also examines how aesthetics a

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Klein, Gabriele. Urban Choreographies. Edited by Rebekah J. Kowal, Gerald Siegmund, and Randy Martin. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199928187.013.48.

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In recent years, above all in urban environments, new cultures of public protest and artistic interventions have established themselves. These artistic and aesthetic forms increasingly operate with physical, theatrical, and choreographic practices and tools, developing a politics of images in an effective and affective media environment. This chapter discusses, using the examples of LIGNA’s performances Radioballet and Dance of All, the aesthetic, political, and social dimensions of artistic interventions based on a concept of community that is defined by corporeal and aesthetic practices. The

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Yaari, Nurit. Between Jerusalem and Athens. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198746676.001.0001.

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How does a theatrical tradition emerge in the fields of dramatic writing and artistic performance? Can a culture, in which theatre played no part in the past, create a theatrical tradition in real time—and how? What was the contribution of classical Greek drama to the evolution of Israeli theatre? How do political and social conditions affect the encounter between cultures—and what role do they play in creating a theatre with a distinctive identity? This book, the first of its kind, attempts to answer these and other questions, by examining the reception of classical Greek drama in the Israeli

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Terrosi, Roberto. New Cultural Theory of Aesthetics. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666982589.

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Traditional aesthetics has tried to locate the reasons for aesthetic value in the transcendental subject while neglecting the importance of culture, even though it is obvious that artistic styles vary from culture to culture in both a geographical and historical sense. However, after recognizing importance of a cultural approach, one is faced with the problem of how to do so without dissolving aesthetics into art history or visual culture, the risk faced in both continental and analytic philosophical aesthetics. Scientific theories of aesthetics inspired by evolutionary psychology and cognitiv

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Vogan, Travis. The Shakespeares of Sports Films. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038389.003.0005.

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This chapter examines how NFL Films' engagements with aesthetic traditions, the discourses surrounding the company, and its selective incorporation of positive critical reception into its publicity materials separate the organization from other sports media outlets and, by extension, distinguish the National Football League (NFL) from competing sports organizations. Throughout its history, NFL Films has taken great pains to emphasize its distinction within sports media and in the broader contexts of art and media culture. The company places its productions in dialogue with established aestheti

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Etherington, Norman, and Andrew Thompson. Imperium of the Soul: The Political and Aesthetic Imagination of Edwardian Imperialists. Manchester University Press, 2017.

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Imperium of the Soul: The Political and Aesthetic Imagination of Edwardian Imperialists. Manchester University Press, 2017.

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Vest, Jason P. Spike Lee. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216017509.

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Spike Lee’s journey from guerrilla filmmaker to Hollywood insider is explored in light of his personal background, the cultural influence of his films, and the extensive scholarship his movies have inspired. This insightful study probes the iconic filmmaker’s career as a director and shaper of American culture. It not only sheds light on the ways in which Lee’s background, influences, and outlook affect his films but also discusses how he participates in, transforms, and transcends the tradition of black American filmmaking. Each chapter offers a critical assessment of at least one, and someti

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Gordon, Robert, and Olaf Jubin, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199988747.001.0001.

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As the first comprehensive academic survey of British musical theatre from its origins to its current state, this volume is a detailed guide to understanding a vibrant form of entertainment ‘made in Britain’. It provides both a historical account of musical theatre from 1728 to the present day and a range of in-depth critical analyses of key works and productions that illustrate the aesthetic values and sociocultural meanings of the genre. The twenty-eight essays offer new perspectives on the British musical, conceiving it as a cultural form complementary to the American musical rather than it

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Kyo, Cho, and Kyoko Selden, eds. Search for the Beautiful Woman. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2012. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798881818753.

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While a slender body is a prerequisite for beauty today, plump women were considered ideal in Tang Dynasty China and Heian-period Japan. Starting around the Southern Song period in China, bound feet symbolized the attractiveness of women. But in Japan, shaved eyebrows and blackened teeth long were markers of loveliness. For centuries, Japanese culture was profoundly shaped by China, but in complex ways that are only now becoming apparent. In this first full comparative history of the subject, Cho Kyo explores changing standards of feminine beauty in China and Japan over the past two millennia.

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Grant, Katrina. Landscape and the Arts in Early Modern Italy. Amsterdam University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463721530.

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Landscape and the Arts in Early Modern Italy: Theatre, Gardens and Visual Culture argues that theatre, and the new genre of opera in particular, played a key role in creating a new vision of landscape during the long seventeenth century in Italy. It explores how the idea of gardens as theatres emerged at the same time as opera was developed in Italian courts around the turn of the seventeenth century. During this period landscape painting emerged as a genre and the aesthetic of designed landscapes and gardens was wholly transformed, which resulted in a reconceptualization of the relationship b

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Lewis, Hannah. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190635978.003.0001.

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The introduction presents the book’s scope, approach, and organization. It recounts the history of the transition to synchronized sound film, which has largely been examined from the perspective of American cinema. However, because of aspects of French cinematic and musical culture that were unique to France, the transition unfolded in very different ways, becoming a hotly debated topic and resulting in divergent artistic responses. The introduction lays out the competing conceptions of sound film in France—for instance, its aesthetic proximity to either live theater or silent film, and its po

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Wannamaker, Robert, Lauren Pratt, and Tashi Wada, eds. James Tenney. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798765121351.

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This volume collects, for the first time, essential interviews and aesthetic writings from throughout James Tenney's five-decade artistic career. The eminent American-Canadian composer James Tenney (1934–2006) made groundbreaking contributions to sampling culture, digital sound synthesis, algorithmic composition, minimalism, spectral music, music in non-standard tuning systems, contemporary theories of form and harmony, and the consolidation of an American experimental-music tradition. This book documents both his own work and his involvements with influential figures in mid-century American m

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Wheeldon, Marianne. Collective Memory and the Material Shaping of Debussy’s Legacy. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190631222.003.0005.

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Chapter 5 considers the role of material culture by examining the campaign to erect a monument dedicated to the memory of Debussy. Rather than taking at face value the timeless, universal image that these monuments sought to project, this chapter focuses on the political, practical, and aesthetic realities that underpinned contemporary debates on how best to commemorate Debussy. Every step of this project of public commemoration was called into question: from the choice of sculptor, artistic style, subject matter, and location of the monument to the necessity of fashioning such an homage in th

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Spinner, Samuel J. Jewish Primitivism. Stanford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9781503628274.001.0001.

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Around the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish writers and artists across Europe began depicting fellow Jews as savages or “primitive” tribesmen, using ethnographic and folkloristic tropes as a way of negotiating their position as insider-outsiders in Europe. Samuel Spinner argues that in literature, graphic art, and photography, Jewish modernists developed a distinct primitivist aesthetic that, by locating the savage present in Europe, challenged the idea of the threatening savage other from outside Europe on which much primitivism relied: in Jewish primitivism, the savage is already t

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Galip, Özlem Belçim. Art, Gender and Migration in the Kurdish Diaspora. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9780755650620.

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This book focuses on the cultural and intellectual activities of Kurdish migrant women through artistic and aesthetic forms of production in Belgium, France, Germany, Sweden and the UK. Using in-depth interviews with over 40 Kurdish women artists, Ozlem Galip examines how artistic, literary and cultural productions, incorporating the fields of film, theatre and music, are articulated within the structures of nation states, leading to the interrogation of the impact of western and local knowledge, patriarchy, the nation-state and globalisation. Galip also analyses how European policies affect t

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Shusterman, Richard. Aesthetics and Postmodernism. Edited by Jerrold Levinson. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199279456.003.0047.

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This article focuses on the philosophical issues, themes, and theories of postmodernism and how they impact on the field of aesthetics. But it begins with a brief historical overview of how postmodernism evolved in the past half-century from a specific artistic style concept to a notion of very general social and cultural significance. It then explores the nasty tangle of ambiguities and tensions in the concept of postmodernism and goes on to survey its major philosophical theories. It concludes by considering what consequences postmodernism should have for aesthetic theory and what a postmode

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Harris, Andrea. Lincoln Kirstein’s Social Modernism and the Cultural Front. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199342235.003.0004.

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This chapter takes a biographical approach to Lincoln Kirstein’s creation of a modernist theory of ballet to situate its development in the 1930s cultural wing of the Popular Front and explore its evolution through and after World War II. Fueled by the cultural front’s belief in the role of the arts in social revolution, Kirstein seized the opportunity to decouple ballet from existing biases about its elitism and triviality, and formulate new ideas about its social relevance in the Depression period. After exploring the development of Kirstein’s social modernism in the cultural front, chapter

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Nguyen, A. Minh, and Stephen Addiss. New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics. Lexington Books, 2017. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978726284.

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This collection presents twenty-seven new essays in Japanese aesthetics by leading experts in the field. Beginning with an extended foreword by the renowned scholar and artist Stephen Addiss and a comprehensive introduction that surveys the history of Japanese aesthetics and the ways in which it is similar to and different from Western aesthetics, this groundbreaking work brings together a large variety of disciplinary perspectives—including philosophy, literature, and cultural politics—to shed light on the artistic and aesthetic traditions of Japan and the central themes in Japanese art and a

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Spingou, Foteini, ed. Sources for Byzantine Art History. Cambridge University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108672450.

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In this book the beauty and meaning of Byzantine art and its aesthetics are for the first time made accessible through the original sources. More than 150 medieval texts are translated from nine medieval languages into English, with commentaries from over seventy leading scholars. These include theories of art, discussions of patronage and understandings of iconography, practical recipes for artistic supplies, expressions of devotion, and descriptions of cities. The volume reveals the cultural plurality and the interconnectivity of medieval Europe and the Mediterranean from the late eleventh t

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Guentner, Wendelin, ed. Women Art Critics in Nineteenth-Century France. University of Delaware Press, 2013. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781611496901.

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Over the past years, studies have begun not only to identify the factors that impeded the full participation of women artists in French cultural life, such as women’s limited access to professional art education, but also to bring to light the considerable artistic accomplishments of women occluded by historians for over a century. A similar effort at historical revision has been under way for French women writers. Works of fiction that enjoyed many editions in the nineteenth-century receded from our field of vision for almost a century before being rediscovered and reissued during the last de

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Farquhar, Keith. Headspace App. University of Edinburgh, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/ed.9781836450412.

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Headspace App was an exhibition of seventeen works by Farquhar at Cabinet Gallery, London, from 1 September – 10 November 2018. It consisted of a collection of mixed media works and adapted found objects inspired by Farquhar’s daily life in Edinburgh, such as the commute on public transport, the use of meditation apps, visits to the municipial sauna, childcare, shopping and visits to the gym. Farquhar employs painterly, sculptural and moving-image processes, together with conceptual strategies, to advance the artistic potential of the readymade object. The works explore the impact of contempor

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Rabaka, Reiland. Civil Rights Music. Published by Lexington Books, 2016. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666988239.

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While there have been a number of studies that have explored African American “movement culture” and African American “movement politics,” rarely has the mixture of black music and black politics or, rather, black music an as expression of black movement politics, been explored across several genres of African American “movement music,” and certainly not with a central focus on the major soundtracks of the Civil Rights Movement: gospel, freedom songs, rhythm & blues, and rock & roll. Here the mixture of music and politics emerging out of the Civil Rights Movement is critically examined

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Winner, Ellen. Is It Good? Or Just Familiar? Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190863357.003.0008.

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This chapter examines the philosophical question of whether aesthetic judgments have truth value or are simply subjective matters of opinion. Whether or not such judgments do have any objective basis, lay people believe that such judgments have no objective basis, classifying them as mere matters of opinion. What then determine our aesthetic preferences? Psychologist James Cutting aims to show that the answer is familiarity: the more familiar we become with a work, the more we value it, and the more we value it, the more we look at it, deepening our familiarity. An alternative interpretation o

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Labatt, Annie Montgomery. Byzantine Rome. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781641899314.

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Why does medieval Rome look so, for lack of a better word, Byzantine? Why do its monuments speak an aesthetic of the medieval East? And just how do we quantify that Byzantine aesthetic or even the word “Byzantine”? This book seeks to consider the ways in which the artistic styles and iconographies generally associated with the eastern medieval tradition had a life in the West and, in many cases, were just as western as they were eastern. Rome’s medieval monuments are a fundamental part of the history of the East, a history that says more about a cross-cultural exchange and interconnected “Rome

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Barnstone, Deborah Ascher, and Donna West Brett, eds. Modernist Aesthetics in Transition. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350442559.

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How did German aesthetic values change during the Weimar Republic and after its immediate collapse at the beginning of the National Socialist period?Contrary to conventional narratives that depict modernist aesthetics as static, shaping principles of modern art and design, this volume argues for their complexity and ever-shifting nature. Illuminating the vital exchanges that occurred across multiple art forms during a period of unmatched cultural activity, this multi-disciplinary volume explores the cultural transition between Weimar- and National Socialist-era Germany and offers a fresh persp

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Guardiano, Nicholas L. Aesthetic Transcendentalism in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting. Lexington Books, 2016. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666983593.

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Aesthetic Transcendentalism is a philosophy endorsing the qualitative and creative aspects of nature. Theoretically it argues for a metaphysical dimension of nature that is aesthetically real, pluralistic, and prolific. It directs our attention to the rich complexity of immediate experience, the possibility of discovering new aesthetic features about the world, and the transformative potential of art as an organic expression. This book presents the philosophy in its relationship to its historical roots in the philosophic and artistic traditions of nineteenth-century North America. In this mult

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Klein, Gabriele. Toward a Theory of Cultural Translation in Dance. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036767.003.0016.

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Looking at the history of dance in the modern West, and especially in Europe, where aesthetic modernism began around 1900, there are two characteristics of dance. Whether it is so-called popular dance or a more artistic form, from a sociological perspective, the history of dance is the history of globalization and transnationalism. It is also the record of how urban experiences have been expressed physically. This chapter addresses tango as a specific example of urban transnationalism in dance. In particular, it explores the relevance of a theory of cultural translation for the analysis and hi

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Davison, Claire. Cross-Channel Modernisms. Edited by Derek Ryan and Jane A. Goldman. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474441872.001.0001.

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Described by Katherine Mansfield in 1921 as ‘a great cold sword between you and your dear love Adventure’, in the early twentieth century the English Channel, or ‘la Manche’ in French, represented both a political and intellectual barrier between European avant-gardism and British restraint, and a bridge for cultural connection and aesthetic innovation. Organised around key terms ‘Translating’, ‘Fashioning’ and ‘Mediating’, this book presents ten original essays by scholars working on both sides of the Channel. Cross-Channel Modernisms historicises artistic exchanges in Britain, France and bey

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Murphet, Julian. The Negative Plate; or, Absalom, Absalom! and the camera’s voice. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190664244.003.0005.

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This chapter examines the structural tension between voice and image in Absalom, Absalom!, relating the novel’s formal resolutions to developments in photography, the printing press, and talking pictures. Considering the cognate set of mid-1930s relationships between word and image in the “photographic essay,” newspapers, and film, the chapter situates Faulkner’s artistic achievements in the context of larger cultural concerns about the storytelling capacity of visual images, the limits of textuality as an indexical medium, and the media’s commercial imperatives. The chapter directly relates t

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Gillick, Liam. Industry and Intelligence. Columbia University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231170208.001.0001.

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The history of modern art is often told through aesthetic breakthroughs that sync well with cultural and political change. From Courbet to Picasso, from Malevich to Warhol, it is accepted that art tracks the disruptions of industrialization, fascism, revolution, and war. Yet filtering the history of modern art only through catastrophic events cannot account for the subtle developments that lead to the profound confusion at the heart of contemporary art. In Industry and Intelligence, the artist Liam Gillick writes a nuanced genealogy to help us appreciate contemporary art’s engagement with hist

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Newlin, Keith, ed. The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190642891.001.0001.

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The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism offers thirty-five original chapters with fresh interpretations of the artistic and political challenges of representing life accurately. Organized by topic and theme, the chapters draw on recent scholarship in literary and cultural studies to offer an authoritative and in-depth reassessment of major and minor figures and the contexts that shaped their work. One set of chapters explores realism’s genesis and its connection to previous and subsequent movements. Others examine the inclusiveness of representation, the circulation of texts, and the

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Hakutani, Yoshinobu. American Haiku, Eastern Philosophies, and Modernist Poetics. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666983890.

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American Haiku, Eastern Philosophies, and Modernist Poetics traces the genesis and development of haiku in Japan as it transformed over the years and eventually made its way to the Western world. Yoshinobu Hakutani analyzes the prominent Eastern philosophies expressed through haiku, such as Confucianism and Zen, and the aesthetic principles of yugen, sabi, and wabi. Hakutani discusses several reinventions of haiku, from Matsuo Basho’s transformation of the classic haiku, to Masaoka Shiki’s modernist perspectives expressing subjective thoughts and feelings, and eventually to Yone Noguchi’s intr

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Devereaux, Michelle. The Stillness of Solitude. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474446044.001.0001.

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The Stillness of Solitude explores the Romantic connections between a selection of seven films from contemporary American filmmakers Sofia Coppola, Wes Anderson, Spike Jonze, and Charlie Kaufman. Linking the current socio-cultural moment, which has been described as ‘metamodern’, to the Romantic era, it describes how the Romantic relation to selfhood, intersubjectivity, and ‘being in the world’ informs the films studied. The first section of the book lays out the aesthetic argument, the second describes the role of imagination and emotion in creating that aesthetic, and the third explores narr

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Black, Cheryl, ed. The Great North American Stage Directors. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350045149.

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This volume assesses the contributions of David Belasco, Arthur Hopkins, and Margaret Webster, whose careers shaped the artistic and specialist identity of the Broadway director. Their work spans almost a century and captures the rapidly changing social and cultural landscape of 20th-century America. While their aesthetic styles differed greatly, they were united in their mastery of theatre craft and their impact on theatrical collaboration. The essays in this volume explore how these directors established and exploited Broadway as the epicentre of theatre in the United States, blended the rol

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Shay, Anthony. LADO, the State Ensemble of Croatian Folk Dances and Songs. Edited by Anthony Shay and Barbara Sellers-Young. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199754281.013.009.

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Unlike many European nations, Croatia has historically used folk dance as a form of representation, according to dance historian and ethnographer Stjepan Sremac. Following World War II, the Yugoslav State established several professional ensembles, among which was Lado, the Ensemble of Folk Dances and Songs of Croatia, under the direction of Zvonko Ljevakovic. Unlike Igor Moiseyev, and in direct opposition to the Moiseyev aesthetic, Ljevakovic employed many authentic details of dance movements, costume, and vocal and instrumental music in his theatricalized folk dance choreographies. Many of t

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Liebrand, Claudia, Harald Neumeyer, and Thomas Wortmann, eds. E.T.A. Hoffmanns »Kater Murr«. Rombach Wissenschaft – ein Verlag in der Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783968218472.

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With the ‘Lebens-Ansichten des Katers Murr nebst fragmentarischer Biographie des Kapellmeister Johannes Kreisler in zufälligen Makulaturblättern’ (1819/1921), E.T.A. Hoffmann, the author, composer, illustrator and legal scholar, created a piece of writing that can be considered one of the most groundbreaking novels of the 19th century. This volume assembles new readings that examine Hoffmann's Kater Murr from comparative, musicological and theatre theory perspectives. It also explores poetological (for Kater Murr that means consistently focusing on the materiality of its artistic production) a

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Chen, Melvin. Philosophy and Art in Southeast Asia. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350414204.

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Guiding you through the topics that shape aesthetics and the philosophy of art, this introduction explores the truth, meaning, taste, aesthetic merit and the role of perception. What each chapter offers is a wealth of examples from Asia: Sonny Liew’s The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, Tan Tai Yong, Kueh Appreciation Day, dragon kiln pottery, the Nanyang style of painting and the Chinese ink tradition. Selected for their boldness and open-endedness, these artworks include graphic comics and classical art forms. They deal with controversies and address central questions including: -When are artw

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