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Current Biology, 2018 Our everyday lives are full of aesthetic experiences. We wake up and frown at an overcast sky, or smile at the sight of the sun. Myriad decisions depend on the aesthetic appeal of the available options like which shirt to wear, which route to take to work, or where to eat. Even life-changing decisions, like where to live or who to live with, are partly
Brielmann, A., Pelli, D.
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The Fear of Aesthetics in Art and Literary Theory [PDF]
, 2017 Is aesthetics, as has recently been claimed, now able to meet the accusations often levelled against it? This essay examines counters to three of the most common: that aesthetics is based around overly narrow conceptions of "art" and "the aesthetic ...
Rose, Sam
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Individual differences in aesthetic preferences for multi-sensorial stimulation [PDF]
, 2020 The aim of the current project was to investigate aesthetics in multi-sensorial stimulation and to explore individual differences in the process. We measured the aesthetics of Interactive Objects (IOs) which are three-dimensional objects with electronic ...
Gao, Jie, Soranzo, Alessandro
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Empirical Challenges in Organizational Aesthetics Research: Towards a Sensual Methodology [PDF]
, 2008 Despite growing scholarly interest in aesthetic dimensions of organizational life, there is a lack of literature expressly engaging with the methodological mechanics of 'doing aesthetics research'. This article addresses that gap.
Alfonso, Ana-Isobel +31 more
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022 This paper seeks to expand traditional aesthetic dimensions of design beyond the limits of human capability in order to encompass other species' sensory modalities. To accomplish this, the idea of inclusivity is extended beyond human cultural and personal identities and needs, to embrace multi-species experiences of places, events and interactions in ...
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Towards a cosmopolitan criticality: Relational aesthetics, Rirkrit Tiravanija and transnational encounters with pad thai [PDF]
, 2013 Marsha Meskimmon and Nikos Papastergiadis have responded to contemporary art’s concern with transculturalism, audience participation and intersubjectivity by re-articulating the cosmopolitan in relation to both aesthetics and globalisation.
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Philosophy of perception as a guide to aesthetics [PDF]
, 2014 The aim of this paper is to argue that it is a promising avenue of research to consider philosophy of perception to be a guide to aesthetics. More precisely, my claim is that many, maybe even most, traditional problems in aesthetics are in fact about ...
Nanay, Bence
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Up the nose of the beholder? Aesthetic perception in olfaction as a decision-making process [PDF]
, 2014 Is the sense of smell a source of aesthetic perception? Traditional philosophical aesthetics has centered on vision and audition but eliminated smell for its subjective and inherently affective character.
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i-Perception, 2012 In this paper aesthetic experience is defined as an experience qualitatively different from everyday experience and similar to other exceptional states of mind. Three crucial characteristics of aesthetic experience are discussed: fascination with an aesthetic object (high arousal and attention), appraisal of the symbolic reality of an object (high ...
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Jungian aesthetics : a reconsideration [PDF]
, 2007 Psychoanalysis has now been established as another aspect of art criticism. Amongst many writers who attempted to create a theory of Aesthetics is the Swiss psychiatrist, and father of analytical psychology, Carl Jung.
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