Some Remarks on Descriptive and Negative Aesthetic Concepts: A Critical Note
This critical note on Tomáš Kulka’s ‘Why Aesthetic Value Judgements Cannot Be Justified’ revisits Kulka’s treatment of what he calls the main thesis of Frank Sibley’s famous essay ‘Aesthetic Concepts’ (1959).
Ondřej Dadejík, Štěpán Kubalík
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ART BEYOND AESTHETICS: PHILOSOPHICAL CRITICISM, ART HISTORY AND CONTEMPORARY ART [PDF]
In 1965 the American art critic Harold Rosenberg declared: ‘Art criticism today is art history, though not necessarily the art history of the art historian.’ This raises the question of precisely what kind of art history art criticism is (or should be), and what its relations are to ‘the art history of the art historian’.
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The Marxist Philosophical Basis of Socialist Literature and Art
Socialist literature and art are constructed on the basis of Marxist philosophy. The “people character” of socialist literature and art is based on the fact that Marxist philosophy abandons individualism and focuses on a wider population’s freedom and ...
Zijie Liu
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BEYOND THE TOMB: HAN DYNASTY AESTHETICS IN PUBLIC ART, WOODBLOCK NEW YEAR PAINTINGS, AND URBAN SPACES IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA [PDF]
Purpose: This study aims to explore the continuity of Han Dynasty aesthetics in modern Chinese art and its influence on contemporary urban landscapes. Han Dynasty, being the foundation of China history, was founded by Emperor Gaozu, whom also stabiized
Sen GAO +5 more
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Art: A brief history of absence (From the conception and birth, life and death, to the living deadness of art) [PDF]
This essay focuses on the logic of the aesthetic argument used in the eighteenth century as a conceptual tool for formulating the modern concept of “(fine) art(s).” The essay also examines the main developments in the history of the art of ...
Džalto Davor
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Aesthetic Experience at the Borders of Art and Life: The Case of the Man in Gold
Preview: Beyond Baumgarten, the modern field of aesthetics can be seen as an attempt to go beyond the limits of older philosophies of beauty, sublimity, and taste in order to engage a much wider domain of qualities and judgments relating to our ...
Richard Shusterman
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The Future of Aesthetics in Digital Ages
Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy, which deals with art. Arts are always a result of age facts. In this age - which is full of digital technologies and electronic applications - a new field of studding aesthetics appears, it deals with art, science ...
Nessreen Ibrahim
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Translating the Beauty of Japan: Lafcadio Hearn’s Art Writing
Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904) is well known for his essays about Japan but his analyses of Japanese art have been overlooked, no doubt because he had no formal training in art history. This article examines the features of Hearn’s art writing.
Stefano Evangelista
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Art fighting its way back to aesthetics: Revisiting Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain [PDF]
When Claire Farago and Donald Preziosi claim that ‘art is not what you think it is,’ aesthetics itself is implicitly challenged, especially aesthetics’ seemingly inherent correlation with art.
Anne Sejten
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Arts and the Aesthetic in Legal History
This special issue of Critical Analysis of Law brings together a rich array of articles at the intersections of arts and legal history. In this introduction we reflect on some of the benefits and implications of this interdisciplinary juncture, which contemporary legal historians have been slow to engage.
Roy Kreitner +2 more
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