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The Science of Aesthetics, the Critique of Taste, and the Philosophy of Art

open access: yesAesthetic Investigations, 2021
Aesthetics is the part of contemporary academic philosophy that is concerned with art, beauty, criticism, and taste. As such, it must address metaphysical issues (distinguishing works of art from other kinds of things), epistemic problems (the ...
J Colin McQuillan
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Art fighting its way back to aesthetics: Revisiting Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Art Historiography, 2016
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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An art history of means: Arendt-Benjamin [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Art Historiography, 2009
Transmissibility is an essential concept for any discourse on historiography and aesthetics. In fact, this concept traverses the contemporary impasse of art historical critical practice. Although explicitly associated with Walter Benjamin, the entirety
Jae Emerling
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Experiencing Revulsion: Aesthetic Discomfort and Ordinary Life

open access: yesOpen Philosophy, 2023
Drawing on recent theories and debates concerning the everydayness of non-artistic and even private aesthetic experiences, this article aims at differentiating new ways of dealing with revulsion at the intersection of negative and everyday aesthetics, as
Andreescu Radu-Cristian
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Environmental Aesthetics and Land Art

open access: yesPannoniana, 2022
In this paper, the author reflects on the relationship between environmental aesthetics and land art. By considering their historical development, the author first addresses the terminology problem which prompted him to understand land art as a hypernym
Jan Defrančeski
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Dissecting landscape art history with information theory

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020
Significance A foundational question in art and aesthetics is if there are culturally and temporally transcendent characteristics in the organizing principles within art and if yes, how these principles evolve over time.
Byunghwee Lee   +6 more
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A review of the philosophy of aesthetics and art based on theoretical and methodological considerations

open access: yesRevista de Investigaciones Universidad del Quindío, 2022
Scientists and neuroscientists have recently conducted scientific and neurological research to discover what is behind the beauty and power of artwork in conveying its meaning to its audience.
Hamed Jamalpour, Javad Yaghoobi-Derab
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Fashioning contemporary art: a new interdisciplinary aesthetics in art-design collaborations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
A surge in creative collaboration between fine artists and fashion designers might be troubling the art world, but these mergers have prompted little debate within academic research in the visual arts.
Tynan, Jane; id_orcid   +2 more
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An analysis of the essence of Chinese opera and vocal music from the perspective of hermeneutics and reception aesthetics

open access: yesTrans/Form/Ação, 2023
The development of Chinese opera art, in modern times, has greatly changed with the times. Explaining the essence of Chinese opera and vocal music art from the Western modern hermeneutics and reception aesthetics theory is conducive to sorting out the ...
Jinjing Xiang
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Some Remarks on Descriptive and Negative Aesthetic Concepts: A Critical Note

open access: yesEstetika, 2013
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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