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Thompson, Seth Aaron. "Art Unfettered: Bergson and a Fluid Conception of Art." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1248388/.
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This dissertation applies philosopher Henri Bergson's methodology and his ideas of duration and creativity to the definitional problem of art, particularly as formulated within analytic aesthetics. In mid-20th century, analytic aesthetics rejected essentialist definitions of art, but within a decade, two predominant definitions of art emerged as answers to the anti-essentialism of the decade prior: functionalism and proceduralism. These two definitions define art, respectively, in terms of the purpose that art serves and in terms of the conventions in place that confer the status of art onto artifacts. Despite other important definitions (including historical and intentionalist definitions), much of the literature in the analytic field of aesthetics center on the functional/procedural dichotomy, and this dichotomy is an exclusive one insofar as the two definitions appear incompatible with each other when it comes to art. I use Bergson's methodology to demonstrate that the tension between functionalism and proceduralism is an artificial one. In turn, abandoning the strict dichotomy between these two definitions of art opens the way for a more fluid conception of art. Using Bergson's application of duration and creativity to problems of laughter and morality, I draw parallels to what a Bergsonian characterization would entail.
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Hanson, Louise Mary. "Conceptual art : what is it?" Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1ce65d49-6864-4a29-8600-5c54e405ef5e.
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Conceptual Art (henceforth CA) has the peculiar status of being at once a neglected topic in philosophical aesthetics, and one on which a degree of philosophical weight disproportionate to the attention it has received is placed. On the one hand it is frequently mentioned by philosophers as a problematic case, one that general theories of art have difficulty dealing with, but on the other, there is a notable lack of philosophical research taking CA as its focus. It is largely taken as a given that CA is radically different from other art in various ways and thus poses problems for some of the general statements about art that philosophers tend to make. But it is striking that these claims are not, for the most part, grounded in a thorough investigation into the nature of CA. The purpose of my research is to conduct such an investigation; to address the question of what CA is, and what makes it different from other art, in order to come to a clearer view of what particular philosophical issues or difficulties CA raises for the philosophy of art. In existing literature on CA, it is standard to take CA’s distinctiveness to have something to do with the importance of ‘ideas’. I investigate what could be meant here by ‘idea’, and identify two broad schools of thought as to what form this emphasis on ideas in CA takes: Priority Accounts, which claim that in CA ideas are the most important aspect of the work and Constitution Accounts, which claim that works of CA are ideas. I identify serious problems for Constitution Accounts, in general, and for some kinds of Priority Account. I then put forward a new kind of Priority account which I think overcomes the problems faced by its rivals.
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Rampley, Matthew. "Dialectics of contingency : Nietzsche's philosophy of art." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14775.
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This thesis examines the function of art in Nietzsche's philosophy. Its primary concern is with Nietzsche's turn to art as the means to counter what he terms metaphysics. Metaphysics is a metonym for the system of beliefs sustaining our culture whereby human judgements about the world are perceived as uncovering an objective truth antecedent to those judgements, with an implicit faith in the possibility of exhausting the totality of these antecedent truths. This thesis consequently has two principal strands. The first is to analyse Nietzsche's criticism of metaphysics. The second is to explore the way in which, using a specific understanding of art, Nietzsche attempts to reconcile extreme scepticism towards all forms of human knowledge with a continued belief in their necessity. The thesis argues that Nietzsche lays an importance on art as providing an aesthetic education to replace the misguided theoretical orientation of metaphysics. Nietzsche criticises metaphysics for its inability to recognise that its interpretations are mere interpretations, that logic and the rational serve as means to make the world meaningful from the human perspective. My thesis explores how he sees art, and in particular the tragic, as constituting a mode of world interpretation which declares its status as such. I argue that for Nietzsche this is crucial inasmuch as a failure to recognise the contingency of our interpretations results in a refusal to give value in any interpretations. For Nietzsche the advent of the Modern age heralds the danger of such refusal, and hence I argue that his turn to art is a response to the specifically Modern temptation to descend into mere cynical Nihilism.
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Fidalgo, Christopher J. "Art, Gaut and Games: the Case for Why Some Video Games Are Art." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/philosophy_hontheses/5.
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In this paper, I argue that there are some video games which are art. I begin my paper by laying out several objections as to why video games could not be art. After laying out these objections, I present the theory of art I find most persuasive, Berys Gaut’s cluster concept of art. Because of the nature of Gaut’s cluster concept, I argue that video games, as a medium of expression, do not need to be defended as a whole. Rather, like all other media of expression, only certain works are worthy of the title art. I then introduce and defend several games as art. After, I return to the initial objections against video games and respond in light of my defended cases. I conclude that video games, as a medium of expression, are still growing, but every day there are more examples of video games as art.
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Weis, Kristin K. "Art as Negation: A Defense of Conceptual Art as Art." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1461602608.
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Collins, Lorna Patricia. "Making sense : art and aesthetics in contemporary French thought." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610086.
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Moore, Gregory. "Art and action : exploring postmodern aesthetics." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1456.
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Kieran, Matthew Laurence. "The nature and value of art." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14807.
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This thesis examines the nature and value of art. It is primarily concerned to advance an argument which makes sense of the significance we ordinarily afford art, rather than rendering it merely aesthetic and thus cognitively trivial. Contrary to philosophical orthodoxy, it is argued that 'art' does not have two distinct senses. Rather, we should understand art as an inherently evaluative, evolving cultural practice. Thus, I argue, 'art' is essentially a cluster concept. I consider an account of art according to which it is in the pleasure art affords, that its value lies. However, though we derive pleasure even from apparently unpleasant artworks, the mark of art's value lies elsewhere. That is, the pleasure we derive from art is the result of an artwork's being of value in some other way. Through critically assessing the standard accounts of art's value, I argue that art's pleasures are primarily cognitive. Furthermore, I argue, the cognitive value of art arises primarily from the engagement of our imagination and interpretation of artworks. That is, we enjoy the imaginative activity of engaging with artworks and the promotion of particular imaginative understandings. Furthermore, as imaginative understanding is of fundamental importance in grasping the nature of our world and others, art may have a distinctive significance. That is, art may afford insights into and thus promote our imaginative understandings of our world and others. Thus, through the promotion of imaginative understanding, art may cultivate our moral understanding. Therefore, art is of profound significance and import.
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Lindley, Anne Hollinger. "Relating to relational aesthetics." Pomona College, 2009. http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/stc,74.
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This thesis will examine the practice of relational aesthetics as it involves the viewer, as well as the way in which it plays out within and outside of the institutional setting of the museum. I will focus primarily on two unique projects: that of The Machine Project Field Guide at Los Angeles County Museum of Art on November 15, 2008, produced by Machine Project, a social project operated out of a storefront gallery in Echo Park; and David Michalek's Slow Dancing at the Lincoln Center Festival in New York City, July 12-29 2007.
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Farinas, Rebecca Lee. "The Aesthetic Agency of Popular Culture in the Writings of Pierre Bourdieu and Arthur C. Danto." OpenSIUC, 2014. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/949.
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ABSTRACT The Aesthetic Agency of Popular Culture: In the Writings of Pierre Bourdieu and Arthur C. Danto Rebecca L. Farinas, Ph.D. Pierre Bourdieu and Arthur C. Danto are significant interlocutors in the areas of aesthetics and popular culture. This study affirmatively answers a question raised by both writers, that popular culture puts forward a strong enough aesthetic to change elitist views of society, which concern people's disrespect for the importance of commonplace and everyday experiences. Bourdieu approaches the problem by applying sociology to aesthetics, and Danto raises the question through a view of aesthetics based on his philosophy of culture, which he begins to cultivate in his late writings. Each approach is important, in that firstly through looking at culture through sociology we can omit highbrow abstractions of some philosophies, and look evidentially at the dynamics of aesthetic agency. Secondly, thinking about culture philosophically, we can reveal how people's feelings and actions make meaningful and ethically valuable aesthetic representations. Comparing the two perspectives, we find two different views of how contemporary societies change for the better through individual and communal aesthetic actions. It is Danto's theory of culture, however, which answers the question of the agency of popular culture fully, because his theory of the third realm of beauty is constituted through communal values, which grow out of people's relationships as they interact through everyday, commonplace experiences. Bourdieu and Danto's writings converge on many points, and we can notice several similarities and one major difference in their philosophies. The main similarities are; that feelings and perceptions change social conditions through ideas and actions, that popular culture is facilitated by people's common relationships with one another, and that people who contribute to a commonplace ethos of mutual respect and openness re-possess popular culture with agency, in contrast to a weak sense of culture that is controlled by abstracted concepts and elitist judgements. Danto's distinction in aesthetics through value making, is especially important because in our contemporary, interconnected, global world popular culture needs to do more than merely create nationalistic standards and static traditions. For Danto, people develop a more creative and fair world through understanding and acting on their commonality of inner beauty. Inner beauty is an aesthetic spirit of virtues made through our reciprocal participation in our cultural representations, and we use this agency to propagate our belief in each other as unique and caring human beings.
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Gurciullo, Sebastian 1968. "Between art and philosophy : Adorno and Foucault as heirs and critics of Enlightenment." Monash University, School of Literary, Visual and Cultural Studies, 2000. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/7662.
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Weh, Michael. "Being art - a study in ontology." Thesis, St Andrews, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/213.
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Meloni, Gabriele. "Plato on establishing poetry as art." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9752.
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Plato’s attitude on Art has always been hardly debated among scholars, and in recent times the interest on ancient Aesthetics in general and Plato’s attitude in particular has been even increased in the philosophical debate. The problem with Plato’s position is twofold. On the one hand he expresses hard criticism against poetry and he even banishes the poets from the ideal state he envisages in the Republic. That has been usually regarded as an illiberal, totalitarian position. On the other hand, the criticisms he makes of poetry seem to present inconsistencies among the Platonic corpus and they could prima facie appear to the modern reader odd, paternalistic or moralistic. Throughout my work I suggest to adopt a new approach, based both on historical and theoretical grounds, according to which it will be possible to resolve the problems that Plato’s objections to poetry give rise to. The historical and cultural context will be the focus of the first chapter. It consists of the following points. On the one hand I will first focus on different features that characterize Greek poetry, and on the other I will emphasize the pre-literacy of Plato’s contemporaries. I will also highlight how the ethical and political role, along with the educational function, made poetry the privileged source of information and education, and the ultimate reference for everyone in the Athens of the fifth B.C. In the second section of the first chapter I will analyze Plato’s teleologism, which I regard to be a fundamental entity in his stance on art. Such a notion, although not as much emphasized by scholars, plays a pivotal role in Plato’s arguments on poetry, I contend. This is especially evident in the Republic, where Plato’s criticism regards the flaws of poetry in teaching (Resp. II and III) first, and secondly as the main source of knowledge (X). In the third and last section of chapter one, I will face the complex issue of the alleged existence of the concept of beauty in antiquity. In this occasion I argue in favour of the existence of such an entity, both among average Greeks and for Plato, even though in different ways and degrees of awareness. After having provided the historical and theoretical frame of my approach, I will then move to textual examination of the Platonis Opera. In the second and third chapter I will analyse the so-called ‘early dialogues’, in order to single out the recurrent features of Plato’s stance on poetry. In fact, one of the main goals of my study is to retrace an overall, consistent view on art in general and poetry in particular among the Platonic corpus. While the second chapter is mainly focused on the Apology and the Protagoras, a special emphasis deserves the Ion, which is the object of the third chapter. I argue indeed that for the first time in this early dialogue we find a clear theoretical expression of a key-concept of Plato’s stance on art. In fact, Plato bases his criticism toward the eponymous rhapsode pointing out that the rhapsode on the one hand lacks the knowledge of the things he (demands to be able to) talk(s) about. On the other hand, the rhapsode lacks the knowledge of what poetry, as well as his trade, is. Such a ‘twofold ignorance’, as we will see, it is a recurring pattern in Socrates’ pupil. While the fourth chapter is mainly devoted to the analysis and comment of the Symposium, the fifth, sixth and seventh chapter present the detailed examination of the Book II, III and X of the Republic. They are respectively devoted to the analysis and criticism of the ‘middle dialogues’, the Republic and the ‘late dialogues’. Because of its capital importance for the purpose of my argument, I will analyze Plato’s criticism in the Republic in details and I will face different approaches to the subject. Afterwards I will confront them with my own theory in order to show that adopting my approach the apparent discrepancies regarding Plato’s aesthetics within the Republic itself as well as in others Platonic dialogues disappear. (And, on the contrary, this does not happen if the reader accepts the mainstream interpretation on the subject at issue). In essence: I propose to take Plato’s criticism of poetry not as an aesthetic attitude, but rather as a justified concern about the pursuit of truth through poetry, as if it were the main source of teaching, moral value, knowledge and information in the ancient Greek society. That is the core of my argument. The eighth chapter analyses the ‘late dialogues’, in particular The Laws, given the abundant of relevant passages on the matter. Finally, the ninth and last chapter faces Popper’s notorious judgement of Plato as totalitarian scholar. In this section of the study I will contend that Popper’s notorious reading of Plato’s political system is fallacious. Further, I will reveal that Plato and Popper’s stance on mass media essentially correspond. It is my understanding that such a fundamental passage will give the ultimate proof of the rightness of my revolutionary reading of the vexata quaestio of the ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry in Plato. Finally, the outcome of my investigations will show that Plato does not banish poetry because he is attacking it as a dangerous, free, “fine” Art. On the contrary, I propose to take his attack as the only way to release poetry from its educational and political context and to baptize it into the realm of Fine Art.
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Gao, Weining. "A STUDY OF HUTCHESON’S AND HUME’S THEORIES OF AESTHETIC TASTE." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1871.
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This thesis examines the aesthetic theories by Francis Hutcheson and David Hume, two of the most influential philosophers of the eighteenth century. Focused on the interpretation of both theories, it concentrates on the issue of human taste, in particular, aesthetic taste, including questions concerning people’s external sense (sensation) and internal sense (sensations), what the differences are between better taste and worse taste, how people possible improve taste by practice, examples, customs, education, and the like. It concludes with a criticism on both philosophers’ works and a positive argument on the explanation of better and worse taste. Primary texts include Hutcheson’s Inquiry concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony and Design and Hume’s Of the Standard of Taste.
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Fernández, Celso Ignacio. "The distinction between philosophy of art and aesthetics in the thought of Étienne Gilson." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.
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Miyoshi, Akihiko. "Art and authenticity /." Link to online version, 2005. https://ritdml.rit.edu/dspace/handle/1850/1106.
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Sutherland, Zoë Dominique. "A phenomenology of conceptual art." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2013. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/47228/.
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This thesis emerges from and responds to certain recent philosophical writings on conceptual art, in particular from the British analytic tradition. Having identified a recent tendency implicit within this tradition towards an increasingly phenomenological reading of the ontology of the conceptual artwork, I aim to develop such ideas through an analysis of Heidegger's theory of art, and through a subsequent enquiry into its applicability to conceptual art. This will involve a lengthy analysis of several conceptual artworks on the basis of this theory. The thesis consists of three substantive chapters. The first is a critical examination of certain recent philosophical texts on conceptual art. This chapter takes a series of philosophical texts representing a range of positions with regards to both the specific role and, by virtue, the significance accorded to the material in the constitution of the conceptual artwork. The second chapter looks at Heidegger's phenomenological enquiry into the ontology of the artwork, and specifically at the role of the concepts of Earth and World in this ontology. On the basis of this study of Heidegger, the third chapter engages with a range of conceptual artworks. Each artwork is shown to exemplify a general tendency of conceptual artworks to explore of the bounds of the artwork as such and its relation to its context.
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Cho, Sunwoo. "Cognitive Transformation as a Value of Art: A Study of the Cognitive Value of Art." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/202128.
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Art has been thought of as a source of cognitive value that might contribute to the survival and the enrichment of human life by providing us with knowledge about and insight into our world. The cognitive value of art, understood generally in terms of the provision of knowledge, has been discussed by many philosophers who have focused on issues concerning the means by which knowledge is acquired in the arts and the range of knowledge that art is able to provide. However, in focusing on knowledge as the end-product of art, philosophers have tended to neglect the subjective aspect of the cognitive value of art and the importance of the process of experiencing art, during which the subject who experiences an artwork goes through a particular kind of transformation. In recent years, Noël Carroll has overcome this problem by considering the moral cultivation of the subject who experiences works of art. However, the subjective aspect of art's cognitive value cannot be exhausted by moral cultivation. In this dissertation I argue that the principle cognitive value of art resides in the cognitive transformation of the subject that occurs throughout the process of experiencing works of art. My discussion of the transformation involves an analysis of the ways in which artworks articulate perspectives and promotes the processes of reconfiguration and particularization. I also, with the aid of John Dewey's philosophy of experience, explore the ways in which reconfiguration and particularization contribute to art's transformative potential and what characterizes the cognitive transformations which result from aesthetic experiences.
Temple University--Theses
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Pleasant, Jordan Mills. "A Defense of Aesthetic Antiessentialism: Morris Weitz and the Possibility of Defining 'Art'." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1279580914.
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Knackert, Bruce J. "The spiritual, the mystical and the sublime : an artistic search for the absolute." Virtual Press, 1990. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/724949.
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The purpose of this creative project was to explore the need of the artist to represent a spiritual consciousness in a material-dominated society. It was felt that a return to the mythical origins of art and a resurrected faith in the supernatural would help stimulate creativity, promote inward growth and enhance the evolution of consciousness. The artist examined mystical and philosophical literature which lead to the use of the concept of the sublime by nineteenth century landscape painters as well as the "Abstract Sublime" painters of the mid-twentieth century. Also important was the effect of the Theosophic Society's geometric iconography and color theories on two of the pioneers of abstract art, Kandinsky and Mondrian. These inquiries were incorporated into a large,; three-dimensional, mixed-media installation.Department of Art
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Boetzkes, Amanda. "Beyond perception : the ethics of contemporary earth art." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=102788.
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This dissertation considers the aesthetic strategies and ethical implications of contemporary earth art. Drawing from feminist and ecological critiques of phenomenology, it posits that an ethical preoccupation with the earth is identifiable in works that stage the artist's inability to condense natural phenomena into an intelligible art object thereby evidencing the earth's excess beyond the field of perception. Contemporary earth art has the paradoxical goal of evoking the sensorial plenitude of the earth without representing it as such. The first chapter analyzes Robert Smithson's monumental sculpture, the Spiral Jetty (1970), and suggests that the artist deploys the emblem of the whirlpool to express the artwork's constitutive rupture from the earth, a loss that the artwork subsequently discloses in its textual modes, including an essay and a film that document the construction of the sculpture. Chapter two examines the recurrence of the whirlpool motif and other anagrammatic shapes such as black holes, tornadoes, shells and nests, in earth art from the last three decades. In contemporary practices the whirlpool allegorizes an ethical attentiveness to the earth's alterity; not only does it thematize the artwork's separation from perpetual natural regeneration, it signals the artist's withdrawal from the attempt to construct a totalizing perspective of the site. Chapter three addresses performance and installation works that feature the contact between the artist's body and the earth, and in particular, the body's role in delineating the point of friction between the earth's sensorial plenitude and its resistance to representation. Earth artists thereby assert the body as a surface that separates itself out from the earth and receives sensation of it as other. The conclusion summarizes the main arguments of the previous chapters through a discussion of a three-part installation by Chris Drury entitled Whorls (2005).
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Engleman, Max. "Wittgenstein and Merleau-Ponty on Art: Physiognomy and World." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1556884667219745.
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Quevedo, Isabela. "Normative Dualism and the Definition of Art." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/philosophy_hontheses/6.
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Defining art has been one of philosophy of art’s biggest projects. However, no definition offered has achieved to account for all objects we consider art. In this paper, I argue that normative dualism, an unjustifiable Western prejudice for the mental, plays a big part in this failure. The division between fine art and utilitarian and “low” art has been perpetuated because the former is associated with the mental processes involved in its appreciation and, thus, considered more valuable. Theories of art also tend to exclude production (a physical process), concentrating mostly on the appreciation of art (a mental process). Ridding theory of the bias of normative dualism, by abolishing the division that sets fine art apart as more valuable and writing theory that takes art production into consideration, is the only way art theory will succeed in accurately describing art objects.
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DORAN, NICOLE ELLEN. "A CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY OF MUSIC AND THE ARTS: THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF SCHAEFFER FAMILY AND THE L'ABRI COMMUNITY." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1023192423.
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Liucci-Goutnikov, Nicolas. "Les voies de la singularité : pour une généalogie des oeuvres d'art." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015AIXM3081.
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S’il n’existe pas d’« objet esthétique », comme l’ont soutenu Genette et Schaeffer, mais simplement des « relations esthétiques », comment définir ce que sont ou ce que font les œuvres d’art ? Un concept élémentaire, présent de façon diffuse dans de nombreux écrits sur l’art, se révèle opératoire : le concept de singularité. La singularité peut expliquer nombre des qualités attribuées aux œuvres d’art, notamment leur capacité maintes fois relevée à arrêter l’attention. Comme l’ont souligné de nombreux penseurs, de Kant à Goodman, l’œuvre d’art tient l’esprit en éveil : dans la relation aux œuvres d’art, écrit ce dernier, « le moteur est la curiosité et le but est d’obtenir des lumières » [Nelson Goodman, Langages de l’art (1968), trad. J. Morizot]. Exigeant que l’attention se porte sur l’objet en tant qu’individu, la singularité met à mal les généralités formulées sur les œuvres d’art, tout en inscrivant chacune d’entre elles dans l’histoire. Pour percevoir et comprendre une singularité, il est nécessaire de connaître le « monde de l’art » contre lequel elle s’affirme : l’établissement d’une généalogie se révèle indispensable. Renversant la logique de l’origine, l’identification de la parenté immédiate d’une œuvre d’art permet de saisir des relations d’identité entrelacées, croisées, mais aussi et surtout ces différences déterminantes grâce auxquelles l’œuvre peut affirmer sa propre singularité… et peut-être de susciter à son tour une descendance. Plusieurs études de cas s’attachent à le montrer - textes sur l’art de Greenberg, Rosenberg ou Judd, et œuvres d’art de Warhol, Levine ou Sehgal –, cherchant à tracer ainsi, de façon généalogique, les voies de la singularitéIf there is no such object as an “aesthetic object”, as Genette and Schaeffer have argued, but only “aesthetic relations”, how to define what an artwork is or does? An elementary concept, present in a pervasive manner in many writings about art, appears to be operative: the concept of singularity. Singularity can explain a lot of the qualities, which are usually assigned to artworks, in particular their ability to draw attention on them. As many authors have emphasized, from Kant to Goodman, an artwork keeps the mind active: in our relation to artworks, writes the latter, “the drive is curiosity and the aim enlightenment”.Given that this sort of attention requires to focus on the object as an individual, singularity jeopardizes the generalities, which are usually stated about artworks, though inscribing each of them in history. In order to perceive and to understand a singularity, it is necessary to know against which “artworld” this singularity asserts itself: an indispensable step seems the establishment of a genealogy. Through reversing the logic of origin, the identification of the immediate relationship of an artwork allows to embrace intertwined identity links, but also, and above all, these decisive differences, which allow the artwork to assert its singularity… and maybe to arouse some descendants. Different case studies make every effort to show it – texts about art written by Greenberg, Rosenberg or Judd, artworks from Warhol, Levine or Sehgal –, trying to trace, along a genealogical path, the roots of singularity
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Spaid, Susan Elizabeth. "Work and World: On the Philosophy of Curatorial Practice." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2013. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/219943.
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Even though viewers typically experience multiple artworks at a time, philosophers have tended to parse visual art experiences into individuated experiences with singular objects, rather than incorporate the role exhibitions play in contextualizing objects over time. Since visual art experiences typically occur in the context of exhibitions featuring multiple artworks, whether in a museum, commercial gallery, or artist's studio, there are numerous problems associated with considering visual art experiences individuated experiences with single objects. I aim to show how this approach not only produces problems for the philosophy of art, but also perpetuates misunderstandings regarding the visual artist's practice, as well as its reception. My focus on reception poses problems for curators who relish curatorial authority. I prefer practices to products, since it establishes a relationship between each contributor's actions and his/her outcomes, which gain meaning over time, unlike products that arrive ready upon delivery, independent of directed consciousness. Rather than convey an activity particular to sight, the term "visual art experience" distinguishes this type of art experience from types such as theater, film, or musical performances. Such multi-sensorial perceptual experiences, whether indoors or outdoors, accompany one's experiencing artworks, monuments and buildings alike. The philosophical convention of treating artworks as singular objects has led philosophers to exaggerate: 1) the artist's intention (Arthur Danto), 2) artworks' atemporal features (Nelson Goodman), and 3) artworks' expressive/symbolic capacities (Robin Collingwood, Danto, Goodman, and Roger Scruton) inviting aestheticians to treat artworks like texts, penned by a lone author. One consequence of the "lone-author" view is that book reading is the prevailing analogy for visual art experiences, eschewing obviously coauthored analogies such as walking in the park, attending a sporting event, or dining with friends. Books whose advance readers and editor(s) influence their contents before being published are no less coauthored than typical nonart experiences. That exhibitions are coauthored has multiple implications for aesthetics, since it acknowledges the way visual art experiences involve multiple inputs: some combination of curator, spectators, exhibition, milieu, environment, and the facility. The curator typically works with other producer(s), whether artists or exhibition staff, to create some environment, a temporal surrounding comprised of thematically arranged artworks, specifically designed for spectators inhabiting a particular milieu, housed in some facility, which includes the physical surroundings, such as the gallery's conditions, its wall colors, lighting, and scale. This text explores all aspects of curatorial practice from exploration to reception. In differentiating curated exhibitions from non-curated exhibitions, I aim to explain how curators generate frames that visibilize each artwork's nonexhibited features, which seems so obvious in hindsight that particular frames later appear embodied from the onset.
Temple University--Theses
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Rossi-Keen, Pamela M. "A disposition of transcendence : Christian platonism and personalism as prolegomena for approaching art and life /." View abstract, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3266066.
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Rogers, Taylor. "The Ethical Significance of the Aesthetic Experience of Non-Representational Art." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1306457898.
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Pratt, Henry John. "Comparing artworks." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1117628400.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains ix, 209 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-209). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center
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Beitmen, Logan R. "Neuroscience and Hindu Aesthetics: A Critical Analysis of V.S. Ramachandran’s “Science of Art”." FIU Digital Commons, 2014. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1198.
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Neuroaesthetics is the study of the brain’s response to artistic stimuli. The neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran contends that art is primarily “caricature” or “exaggeration.” Exaggerated forms hyperactivate neurons in viewers’ brains, which in turn produce specific, “universal” responses. Ramachandran identifies a precursor for his theory in the concept of rasa (literally “juice”) from classical Hindu aesthetics, which he associates with “exaggeration.” The canonical Sanskrit texts of Bharata Muni’s Natya Shastra and Abhinavagupta’s Abhinavabharati, however, do not support Ramachandran’s conclusions. They present audiences as dynamic co-creators, not passive recipients. I believe we could more accurately model the neurology of Hindu aesthetic experiences if we took indigenous rasa theory more seriously as qualitative data that could inform future research.
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Bartlett, Mark. "Chronotopology and the scientific-aesthetic in philosophy, literature and art /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2005. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
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Perez, Carrasco Andres. "Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Painting, Gestalt, and Reversibility." Thesis, Boston College, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3715.
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Thesis advisor: John SallisMaurice Merleau-Ponty's last essay about art, Eye and Mind, refers to many painters, to painting, and even to sculpture. Yet there is hardly any use of the traditional categories used in art criticism to categorize artistic movements or to evaluate painters' contributions to their period. Instead, he uses terms such as `body' and `flesh' that are alien to that tradition, thereby indicating that he clearly intends to go beyond commenting on and assessing the artistic value of the works he mentions. Instead, the essay is a reevaluation of meaning of painting as a whole. Merleau-Ponty says that all painting from Lascaux to our day has been a celebration of `the visible.' However, to understand what he means by `the visible' involves considerable complexity. The standard by which Merleau-Ponty evaluates painting emerges from his phenomenological and ontological research into perception. I argue that in fact Eye and Mind answers a question that arose in his first major book concerning the relationship between consciousness and nature. Because the evolution of the ideas underlying the Eye and Mind's answer is so vast, the goal of this dissertation is to trace the thread leading from his earlier work in order to provide a unifying viewpoint that will ground an adequate understanding of the essay's various arguments. The dissertation argues that Merleau-Ponty's notion of the Gestalt or structure is the framework for understanding the origin and depth of the aperçus developed in Eye and Mind. Ironically perhaps, this notion is not mentioned in Eye and Mind. As if it had lost its original meaning, it is only referred to indirectly and vaguely in terms of transcendence. Nevertheless, the main issue settled in The Structure of Behavior dominated his understanding of the body in The Phenomenology of Perception, and underwent a transformation when Merleau-Ponty discovered language as a diacritical structure. This made possible the radical use he made of it in Eye and Mind without expressly mentioning it. Once the interpretation of Gestalt in relation to Paul Klee and Rudolf Arnheim had been worked out, this dissertation could use this notion--usually undervalued in Merleau-Ponty scholarship--to make sense of Eye and Mind's main contention in light of the interpretive reconstruction of the notions of expression, reversibility, body, and flesh Merleau-Ponty elaborated on the way to that essay. Part I of the dissertation deals with the phenomenology of the Gestalt structure prior to Merleau-Ponty's ontological turn, which in turn frames and underpins many of the insights achieved in this pre-ontological period, especially those about the body. The first two chapters introduce the notion of structure as it emerges in its application to behavior, and explain Merleau-Ponty's own contribution to the notion through the overcoming of earlier psychologists' static reduction of the notion to the physical level. The third and last chapter of Part I discusses the structural dimension of the body. There are two extraordinary things in Eye and Mind: the first is Paul Valery's statement that the painter "takes his body with him"; and the second is the analogy between the problems of the body and the problems of painting, by which Merleau-Ponty proposes that understanding one is indispensable for understanding the other. To clarify his proposal we have to return to The Phenomenology of Perception's analysis of the body according to embodied intentionality or motor intentionality, in which the body operates according to an "I can" that must replace the mechanical reaction to a stimulus. Here Merleau-Ponty was helped by Kurt Goldstein's insight into the body as a Gestalt. The dissertation illustrates what this could mean for the structure of a painting by using examples. What was formerly Part II profiles Merleau-Ponty's embodied notion of the Gestalt form against Arnheim's aprioristic account, which explains the relationship between consciousness and nature through an isomorphism that is even more ambitiously totalizing than the ones envisioned by the original Gestalt psychologists. Because of the detailed nature of our account this part is in two appendices. What is now Part II focuses on the problem of painting more directly. Using both the Notes de Cours (where Merleau-Ponty's most extensive comments on Paul Klee occur) and Paul Klee's own celebrated Notes, Chapter Four on Paul Klee reconsiders the relationship between consciousness and nature as the one between the painter and the world. Klee interpreted abstraction in terms of Gestalt as a form of transcendence involving the visible and the invisible, in contrast to Sartre's idea of transcendence, which also employs the figure/ground formation of the Gestalt. In Eye and Mind the expression of painting is interpreted as "a `visible' to the second power, a carnal essence or icon of the first." So Chapters Five and Six discuss the notion of structure from the viewpoint of expression. The doubling of expression in painting is seen first as analogous to philosophy as a hyper-reflection, and then in the linguistic distinction between le langage parlé et le langage parlant, which allowed Merleau-Ponty to interpret and generalize the model of expressive language via the diacritical structure of language and not restrict expressive language to bodily gestures. Rather than a return to the original (as The Phenomenology may have suggested), the point of this doubling aspect of expression is the recognition of the qualities of reversibility and difference that constitute `depth.' With the clarification of terms such as `perceptual faith' and `style,' Chapter Seven introduces the notion of reversibility before exploring its meaning, specifically in the second chapter of Eye and Mind. In Chapter Eight the earlier focus on the beginning of the definition of a painting as "a `visible' to the second power, a carnal essence or icon of the first," shifts to the meaning of the term "icon." This rounds off the meaning of `depth' and completes the exploration of the theme of the Gestalt structure. Now it becomes clear that the meaning of `depth' is articulated as the depth between the visible and the invisible, because the model used to understand depth is the by now very familiar basic articulation of the perceptual Gestalt: the articulation of a figure over a ground. Like a stain on a rug--in painting, in history, in philosophy, in language, or in perceptual faith--the crystallization of what appears always disguises an invisible dimension, whose invisibility is what makes the visibility of the visible possible. Chapter Nine then concludes the dissertation. It first considers Jean-Luc Marion's use of the icon in painting, in which, as in our interpretation of Merleau-Ponty on depth, uses his own idea of the depth between the visible and the invisible; and second, it responds to observations on Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of art by Veronique Fotí and criticisms of it by Michel Haar
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2012
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Daraškevičiūtė, Vaiva. "The transformation of the concept of aesthetics: B. Croce and H. G. Gadamer." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2012. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2012~D_20121001_092839-58671.
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The object of the dissertation is the problem of the transformation of the concept of aesthetics in Western continental philosophy of the 20th century. In contemporary thought the need to review the modernist concept of aesthetics becomes more and more evident as on the basis of this concept it is impossible to explain how revelation of unique metaphysical truths is attained by way of subjective experience of art. For this reason, in contemporary philosophy the very term of “aesthetics” is questioned, arguing that aesthetics or the philosophy of art, instead of establishing the criteria of judgement of an artwork, should rather aim at thought due to the controversies and paradoxes inevitably surrounding the experience of art. In the dissertation the transformation of the concept of aesthetics is analysed by examining the aesthetics of the Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce and the philosophy of art of the German thinker Hans Georg Gadamer. The study argues that by opposing the subjectivist concept of modernist aesthetics formed under the influence of Kant, Croce and Gadamer prove, in different ways, that the way of the experience of art allows to attain the aspects of common human experience that are unattainable in any other way. The research demonstrates that in Croce’s philosophy the transformation of the modernist concept of aesthetics is approached by choosing creative intuition, rather than senses or reason, as a fundamental way of knowing. The dissertation states... [to full text]Disertacijos tyrimo objektas yra estetikos sampratos transformacijos problema kontinentinėje XX amžiaus Vakarų filosofijoje. Šiuolaikiniame mąstyme susiduriame su būtinybe peržiūrėti modernistinę estetikos sampratą, nes tampa vis labiau akivaizdu, kad ja vadovaujantis neįmanoma paaiškinti subjektyvios meno patirties keliu prieinamos išskirtinių būties tiesų atverties. Dėl šios priežasties šiuolaikinėje filosofijoje kvestionuojamas pats „estetikos“ terminas, argumentuojant, kad estetika, arba meno filosofija, turėtų ne nustatyti meno kūrinio vertinimo kriterijus, bet kelti sau tikslą mąstyti dėka tų prieštaravimų, kurie neišvengiamai lydi meno patirtį. Disertacijoje estetikos sampratos transformacija analizuojama nagrinėjant italų filosofo Benedetto Croce‘s estetiką ir vokiečių mąstytojo Hanso Georgo Gadamerio meno filosofiją. Teigiama, kad Croce ir Gadameris, nesutikdami su Kanto filosofijos įtakoje susiformavusia subjektyvistine modernistinės estetikos samprata, skirtingais būdais įrodo, jog meno patirties keliu pasiekiami tokie bendražmogiški patyrimo aspektai, kurie niekaip kitaip nėra prieinami. Parodoma, kad Croce‘s filosofijoje prie modernistinės estetikos sampratos transformacijos priartėjama pamatiniu pažinimu įvardinus ne jusles ir ne protą, bet kūrybinę intuiciją. Konstatuojama, kad Gadameris savo hermeneutikoje transformuoja subjektyvistinę modernistinės estetikos sampratą į meno filosofiją, meno kūriniui suteikdamas ontologinį statusą ir iškeldamas meno... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
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Ho, King Tong. "The poetics of making a new cross-cultural aesthetics of art making in digital art through the creative integration of Western digital ink jet printmaking technology with Chinese traditional art substrates : this exegesis is submitted to AUT University in partial fulfillment of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy." Click here to access this resource online, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/333.
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Gampe, Johanna. "De l'esthétique numérique : changements nés de la révolution numérique, vus à travers les études des médias, l'art sonore et la philosophie." Thesis, Paris 1, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA010549.
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Cette thèse explore les nombreux changements nés de la Révolution Numérique à travers l'esthétique. Elle aborde les questions essentielles en trois étapes: le discours, la création et la réception. La première partie rassemble les courants et les mots-clefs qui reflètent le discours principal dans son actualité et son historique. Une étude comparative analyse les approches esthétiques typiques. Que l'on étudie les nouveaux médias, l'art visuel, l'art numérique, le « computer art », l'art de l'information ou l'art du code: on cherche tous à définir les nouvelles qualités spécifiques du médium numérique. La deuxième partie se concentre sur les arts sonores et les drames audio en particulier, mais aborde également la musique assistée par ordinateur. L'attention portée au genre du Hörspiel permet de démontrer comment espace et temps évoluent dans le détail. La mise en place d'une hypothèse de travail portant sur les Sonarios - installations sonores spatiales à interactivité scénique - permet de comparer directement 1'« ancien» genre du Hörspiel au « nouveau» genre des Sonarios, en se fondant sur trois études de cas et un état des lieux de l'art. En outre, elle propose un modèle d'interactivité quantitatif et qualitatif. La troisième partie présente les courants prédominants en philosophie. Elle construit un modèle herméneutique à l'aide de l'ontologie, en commençant par la virtualisation et l'actualisation. Abordant philosophiquement des catégories esthétiques, elle affine ce modèle en y incorporant les découvertes de la deuxième partie. Un modèle graphique de signes algorithmiques, développé en sémiotique et en phénoménologie, est alors intégré au domaine de l'esthétiqueThis dissertation explores the numerous changes arising from the Digital Revolution through aesthetics. It takes on the essential issues in three steps, tackling discourse, creation and reception. The first part assembles trends and keywords that reflect the main discourse, covering both the present and the past. A comparative study analyzes typical aesthetic approaches: whether considering new media art, virtual art, digital art, computer art, information art or code art, it becomes apparent that almost ail approaches seek the specific new qualities of the digital medium. The second part concentrates on sound arts and on audio dramas in particular, but also tackles computer music. The focus on the genre Hörspiel allows demonstration of how space and time change in detail. The setting up of a working hypothesis of Sonarios, defining interactive scenic spatial sound installations, allows the direct comparison of the 'old' genre Hörspiel and the 'new' genre Sonario on the basis of three case studies and a consideration of the state of the art. It, moreover, suggests a qualitative and quantitative model of interactivity. The third part introduces the prominent research sectors of philosophy. Step by step, it constructs a hermeneutic model with the aid of ontology, starting with the processes of virtualization and actualization. Selected philosophical approaches on important aesthetic categories are presented in order to refine and discuss the model, together with an analysis of findings from the second part. A graphical model of algorithmic signs, developed in the context of semiotics and phenomenology, allows the analysis to be embedded in the context of aesthetics
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Johnston, Jennene Louise Hooper. "Angels of desire subtle subjects, aesthetics and ethics /." View thesis, 2004. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20050527.155421/index.html.
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Bardelli, Mariana de Campos. "Lyotard: entre o pensamento e a arte." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-26102015-150932/.
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O presente trabalho se debruçou sobre o quinto período do pensamento de Jean-François Lyotard que vai apresentar uma crítica da condição que teria passado a caracterizar o mundo capitalista pós-industrial e que resultaria na emergência de uma cultura pós-moderna. A arte, que em suas reflexões aparecerá como forma de resistência mediante essa condição, será central em nosso trabalho. Assim, abordaremos sua formulação da contra-estética da presença material e sua crítica de arte, a qual possui em suas reflexões um sentido bem particular. Esse período corresponde à guinada kantiana de seu pensamento e, portanto, sua leitura da Crítica da faculdade do juízo tem papel importante em nosso trabalho. Pensamos assim explorar um momento da maior importância do pensamento de Lyotard e que se mostrou de grande pertinência para o debate atual sobre estética e política.This work discusses the fifth period of Jean-François Lyotard\'s thought that will present a criticism of the condition that would have gone to characterise the post-industrial capitalist world and would result in the emergence of a postmodern culture. The art, that in his reflections appears as a form of resistance against this condition, will be central to our work. So, we will discuss his elaboration of the counter aesthetics of material presence and his art criticism, which has in his reflections a very particular sense. This period corresponds to the Kantian turn of his thought and therefore his reading of the Critique of judgment plays an important role in our work. So we decided to explore a moment of great importance in the thought of Lyotard and that proved to be of great relevance to the current debate on aesthetics and politics.
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Spičanović, Vladimir. "Beyond the anti-aesthetic." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=20473.
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This thesis is a critical examination of postmodernist pedagogy currently used in the education of visual artists. It is particularly concerned with the teaching of the traditional disciplines of painting and drawing within a postmodern context. My hypothesis is that the teaching of visual arts within a postmodern orientation more or less relies on an anti-aesthetic stance that is content-centered, with an insistence on critically and politically aware art. The overall objective of this thesis is twofold: First, to generate some questions and ideas that could be of assistance to post-secondary art instructors. Second, to establish a framework for an extended qualitative research that will address the impact of postmodernism on education of artists. The title "beyond the anti-aesthetic" does not necessarily present itself as a negation of the postmodernist paradigm. It identifies a need to revitalize visual art instruction within the postmodern model, to re-address the interplay between form and content in visual art and enhance critical thinking.
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Fourdrinier, Axel. "Rupture et création." Phd thesis, Université Toulouse le Mirail - Toulouse II, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00878834.
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En quoi la notion de rupture permet-elle de comprendre ce qu'est un acte de création artistique ? Ce travail s'attache à montrer le lien entre trois figures de la rupture dans le domaine de l'art : au fondement de sa posture de créateur, il y aurait une rupture qui habite l'artiste ; comme principe de génération de l'œuvre, il y aurait acte de rupture ; dans la manière dont elle s'inscrit dans la civilisation, l'œuvre d'art ferait rupture. Faut-il ainsi penser que toute œuvre d'art reposerait sur l'exigence de rupture ? Et dans ce cas, pourquoi l'art serait-il déterminé par cette exigence ?
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Aloi, Michael Joseph. "Participation in the Play of Nature: A Hermeneutic Approach to Environmental Aesthetics." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1752360/.
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Within the environmental aesthetics literature, there is a noticeable schism between two general approaches to understanding the aesthetic value of nature: the ambient approach and the narrative approach. Ambient thinkers focus on the character of aesthetic appreciation of nature, the way in which one is embedded in multi-sensory environment. These ambient theorists emphasize the importance of those aesthetic experiences that are difficult to articulate. Narrative thinkers argue that aesthetic appreciation of nature is enhanced and enriched by narratives that are relevant to the natural object or environment encountered. Certain narratives – usually those based on scientific knowledge – encourage a depth of appreciation that is inaccessible to those unfamiliar with the narratives. In this dissertation, I attempt to articulate an account of environmental aesthetic experience that does justice to both of these approaches by drawing on the resources of philosophical hermeneutics, and especially on the aesthetic theory of Hans-Georg Gadamer. The most important aspects of Gadamer's work for environmental aesthetics are his phenomenology of play, his revival of practical philosophy, and his emphasis on the interpretive character of all understanding. His discussion of play fleshes out the core of ambient accounts, his focus on interpretation explains the insights of narrative accounts, and the two accounts are tied together by his attention to practice.
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D'Olimpio, Lauralin. "The moral possibilities of mass art." University of Western Australia. Philosophy Discipline Group, 2009. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2009.0172.
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This Thesis critically examines the moral possibilities of mass art. Mass art is often dismissed by critics as pseudo or ersatz art, described as 'kitsch' and lacking in aesthetic and moral value. I will critically examine several definitions of mass art which argue whether or not mass art can and should be classified as art qua art, and what its moral possibilities are given that definition. I focus my analysis on the theories proposed by Noel Carroll, Clement Greenberg, R. G. Collingwood, Dwight MacDonald, Walter Benjamin, T. W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer with a view to defending a positive account of mass art as art with moral capabilities while also arguing that the ethical concerns raised by Adorno and Horkheimer must be taken seriously. After examining the aesthetic and ethical issues that are raised by mass art and how these inter-relate, I explore the link between aesthetic and ethical education. Drawing upon Martha Nussbaum's theory of literary education, I outline a supplementary moral theory that I term
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Tolle, Oliver. "Luz estética: a ciência do sensível de Baumgarten entre a arte e a iluminação." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-03062008-203027/.
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O presente trabalho tem por objetivo reconstruir o conceito de ciência do sensível na obra do filosofo alemão Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714- 1762). Partimos do pressuposto de que a investigacão das faculdades do conhecimento empreendida pelo autor na Metafisíca (1739) pode revelar o alcance e a finalidade da Estética (1750/58), a qual se encontra mais comprometida com as possibilidades em geral de expressão do belo do que com a definicão de uma teoria do objeto artístico em sua particularidade. Esse último aspecto, na verdade, pode prejudicar a interpretacão de sua obra, pois assume que ela estipula a existencia um ideal de beleza atemporal. Para Baumgarten, os princípios que regem o conhecimento sensível coincidem com as regras de expressão do belo, tal como aquelas definidas nas poéticas e retóricas antigas, mas apenas na medida em que eles podem ser derivados das verdades metafisicas.This study investigated the concept of asthetics as science of sensibility in the work from the philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714- 1762). We believe that the investigation of the cognitive faculties what happens in Metaphysica (1739) can reveal with someone precision the wasteness and finality of Aesthetics (1750/1758), situated between theorie of art and philosophy of life. Our argument is that the subordination of these science make she incapable to consider directly the artistic object in your particularity. While this justify the opposition that find the methaphysics of beauty in the posterity, indicated the emptiness what come face to face every theorie of art that not introduce yours cognitive pretexts.
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Henry, Jon L. "Techniques of Sensual Perception: The Creation of Emotional Pathways." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2276/.
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Some artists strive to create artwork that has aesthetic value. If a piece of artwork has the ability to capture the attention of an audience, it must contain strong sensual attributes. Thus, understanding how to design an art form to contain strong sensual attributes may increase the possibility of an aesthetic experience. Since aesthetics is an experience of sensations perceived when in contact with a creative form in any artistic discipline, it is necessary for an artist to understand the nature of the sensual experience. In understanding the sensual experience, artists may be able to create techniques to enhance the aesthetic experience of their work. My video piece, entitled Ararat is a study of methods to enhance the sensual experience. I hope to accomplish this by means of using techniques that optimize an audience's perceptual experience.
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Ladapoulou, Anastasia. "The work of Art as historical event : Heidgger's later philosophy as aesthetic theory." Thesis, University of Essex, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.510524.
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Piccorelli, Justin Thomas. "The Aesthetic Experience and Artful Public Administration." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1408765860.
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Grassom, Brian James. "Art as a narrative of alterity : Part 1, Prolegomenon, appendices, and bibliography ; Part 2, Books." Thesis, Robert Gordon University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10059/468.
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There is a close relationship between art and philosophy. From time to time, philosophy attempts to make art its theme. Invariably it has to acknowledge the very qualities of art that it seeks to explain - art’s elusiveness and its indeterminateness. On the other hand, it is the nature of art to philosophise within itself, about itself, and about the world. In this sense it operates as tacit philosophy. The language of art and the language of philosophy differ in form; but recent turns in philosophy have led to the expression of its truth in terms that transcend language and question its own epistemic structure. At the same time, art has always acknowledged its approach to ‘truth’ and ‘knowledge’ as being ‘other’ to that epistemology. This ‘otherness’ to traditional ways of knowing is recognised in philosophical discourse as ‘alterity’. The thesis posits that in art alterity has always been, and remains, tacit and integral to art’s being. Thus, by exploring the ways in which – through alterity – art and philosophy intersect and interweave, the thesis aims to reveal a new kind of knowledge that transcends the rational and the empirical but is nonetheless not only valid, but of the very highest integrity. That knowledge is transmitted through a particular critical and creative approach to philosophy and to art that opens the possibility of the ‘event’ of Alterity. The thesis uses a discourse of philosophy and critical theory to reveal Alterity in philosophy, principally through the work of Derrida, Heidegger, Adorno, and Levinas; Alterity in art through the works of Fra Angelico, Pollock, Fantin-Latour, Malevich, Vermeer, and Saitowitz; and Alterity in my own art practice through a set of six sculptures.
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Simoniti, Vid. "The epistemic value of contemporary art." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:82a1ee71-98a3-44ac-93ac-2a91eebe8100.
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Recently in analytic philosophy, interest in the issue of the epistemic value of art has been revived. Philosophers have sought to establish whether and in what ways art is a source of knowledge, understanding or a means of inquiry. In philosophy this is a longstanding question, addressed both in the Greek and German traditions, but it seems pertinent to ask the question again today in light of significant changes that have taken place in contemporary art practice. In my thesis, I investigate this question from two perspectives: in terms of analytic philosophy of art, and in terms of developments in contemporary art since the 1960s. In Part I, I offer a defence of a philosophical theory of artistic value, critically overview the extant philosophical literature on the question of epistemic value of art, and explain why the inherently experimental character of contemporary art makes it difficult simply to apply the available theories. I argue that a philosophical engagement with contemporary art requires a different, more inductive method. In Part II, I closely consider three recent developments in which the relationship between art and knowledge has been rendered more complex. The Conceptual Art movement of the 1960s and 1970s privileged concerns with concepts, thought processes and truth over expression, materiality and fidelity to genre. The social turn of the 1990s cast the artist in a position that is almost indistinguishable from that of a teacher, social activist or even of a technology developer. And the artists working within the bio art movement of the 1990s and 2000s have assimilated the activity of the artist to that of the scientist, sometimes blurring the two roles. The goal of the thesis is twofold. On the one hand, I show how cases from recent art history put pressure on some key commitments in recent analytic philosophy. Revisions and challenges are suggested in particular for extant theories of artistic value, conceptions of artistic autonomy and heteronomy, and some popular accounts of the epistemic value of art. On the other hand, concepts from analytic philosophy are used to shed light on some of the more radical developments in recent art practice, and to rethink the ways in which art participates in the broader culture.
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Simus, Jason Boaz. "Disturbing Nature's Beauty: Environmental Aesthetics in a New Ecological Paradigm." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11008/.
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An ecological paradigm shift from the "balance of nature" to the "flux of nature" will change the way we aesthetically appreciate nature if we adopt scientific cognitivism-the view that aesthetic appreciation of nature must be informed by scientific knowledge. Aesthetic judgments are subjective, though we talk about aesthetic qualities as if they were objectively inherent in objects, events, or environments. Aesthetic judgments regarding nature are correct insofar as they are part of a community consensus regarding the currently dominant scientific paradigm. Ecological science is grounded in metaphors: nature is a divine order, a machine, an organism, a community, or a cybernetic system. These metaphors stimulate and guide scientific practice, but do not exist independent of a conceptual framework. They are at most useful fictions in terms of how they reflect the values underlying a paradigm. Contemporary ecology is a science driven more by aesthetic than metaphysical considerations. I review concepts in the history of nature aesthetics such as the picturesque, the sublime, disinterestedness, and formalism. I propose an analogy: just as knowledge of art history and theory should inform aesthetic appreciation of art, knowledge of natural history and ecological theory should inform aesthetic appreciation of nature. The "framing problem," is the problem that natural environments are not discrete objects, so knowing what to focus on in an environment is difficult. The "fusion problem" is the problem of how to fuse the sensory aspect of aesthetic appreciation with highly theoretical scientific knowledge. I resolve these two problems by defending a normative version of the theory-laden observation thesis. Positive aesthetics is the view that insofar as nature is untouched by humans, it is always beautiful and never ugly. I defend an amended and updated version of positive aesthetics that is consistent with the central elements of contemporary ecology, and emphasize the heuristic, exegetical, and pedagogical roles aesthetic qualities play in ecological science.
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Pozza, Gustavo Luiz. "A representação ético-estética do corpo na fotografia contemporânea." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UCS, 2015. https://repositorio.ucs.br/handle/11338/1089.
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Objetivando a compreensão das relações entre a ética e a estética na fotografia, mais propriamente com relação à representação do corpo, procura-se compreender o processo de significação da imagem. Devido à característica indicial da imagem gerada por um processo mecânico e por isso singular nas representações visuais, a fotografia se destaca com relação a sua representação da realidade codificada visualmente. Aplicando metodologias de diferentes autores na avaliação e análise do discurso ético e da construção estética, foram combinadas duas possibilidades de percepção da imagem, produzindo uma metodologia própria e direcionada para a discussão dos conflitos causados pela representação do imoral como belo.A partir da compreensão dos mecanismos da comunicação visual pelas teorias de Peirce, Bazin, Barthes, Sontag e Dubois; das relações entre a arte e a ética de Keiran e Gaut; de estudos sobre as estéticas fenomenológica e analítica e da pesquisa de metodologias e da aplicação em avaliações de imagens fotográficas produzidas a partir do início do século XX, foi possível obter dados relevantes para a análise da construção formal e do posicionamento moral da obra resultante. Esse enfoque teve como resultado a proposta de uma metodologia de avaliação ético-estética que permita ao espectador compreender, analisar e avaliar a obra de arte fotográfica.Submitted by Ana Guimarães Pereira (agpereir@ucs.br) on 2016-01-27T12:48:25Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Gustavo Luiz Pozza.pdf: 1745021 bytes, checksum: 9244fec4a46c38233779d4859d1cab4e (MD5)
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Having as objective the understanding of the relationship between ethics and aesthetics in photography, more specifically regarding the representation of the body, this research seeks to understand the process of signification of the image. Due to its indexical characteristic as an image generated by a mechanical process, and so singular in the visual representations, the photographic image stands out with respect to its representation of visually coded reality. Applying methodologies of different authors in the evaluation and analysis of ethical discourse and aesthetic construction, were combined two ways of perception of the image, producing its own methodology, directed to the discussion of the conflicts caused by the representation of immoral as beautiful. Through the understanding of the mechanisms of visual communication by the theories of Peirce, Bazin, Barthes, Sontag e Dubois; the relations between art and ethics from Keiran and Gaut; of studies on the phenomenological and analytical aesthetic and research of methodologies and its application to evaluation of photographic images produced since the early twentieth century, it was possible to obtain relevant data for the analysis of formal construction and moral positioning of the resulting work. This approach has resulted in the proposal of a methodology of ethical and aesthetic evaluation that allows the spectator to understand, analyze and evaluate the photographic work of art.
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Machado, Oscar A. "A Philosophy of Architecture." Scholarly Repository, 2009. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_theses/205.
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To evaluate specific architectural theories, an analytic methodology was used. The specific architectural theories evaluated all have in common the fact that their formative models can explain how their original ideas manifest in the practice of architectural works. Although these architectural theories researched are thousands or in some cases hundreds of years apart, a way to compare and contrast them was to use philosophies of art common to all. This contemporary approach to analysis was done with the use of ?analytic philosophy? for its effectiveness to clarify concepts. Central aspects of architectural theories will be analyzed in detail through the lenses of four contemporary theories of the philosophy of art. They are: formalism (including neo-formalism and theories that emphasize the connection between form and function), expression theories, representation theories (including neo-representational and mimetic accounts), and theories based on aesthetic experience. Looking at architecture from the viewpoint of analytic philosophy of art provides new insights into the nature of architecture and illuminates the field in significant ways. A recommendation for further study is enclosed.