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On Purposefully Poor Images: Aesthetic Encounters with Alienation

open access: yesAesthetic Investigations, 2023
This article introduces the concept of purposefully poor images. Building on Hito Steyerl’s theory of poor images as images that travel through networks and lose resolution and information, (2009) the theory of the purposefully poor image looks at the ...
Lucie Chateau
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Multichannel Analysis of Surface Waves (MASW) to Estimate the Shear Wave Velocity for Engineering Characterization of Soils at Hawassa Town, Southern Ethiopia

open access: yesInternational Journal of Geophysics, Volume 2022, Issue 1, 2022., 2022
Site characterization is a prerequisite for the successful and economic design of engineering structures and earthworks by providing geological information for any proposed project. Until now, no detail study has been carried out on the site characterization and classification using shear wave velocity (Vs) up to the top 30 m depth in Hawassa town. For
Alemayehu Ayele   +3 more
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Arts and Politics: What Has Ontology to Do With It ?

open access: yesAesthetic Investigations, 2023
Introduction to the issue Arts, Ontology and Politics. This text gives a survey of the articles included in the special issue Arts, Ontology and Politics and of the challenges that these articles have to deal with in approaching the central them.
Arthur Cools, Jan Bierhanzl
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Gestures of/at Art

open access: yesAesthetic Investigations, 2023
An odd occurrence within a live model session is that the model, while nude, is drawn in a way which renders irrelevant the nakedness. Participants may focus on the model's face, or draw the pose while heavily blurring breasts or genitalia—the unveiling
Tzachi Zamir
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Growing Up with Mies and Saarinen

open access: yesAesthetic Investigations, 2023
Paul Guyer interviews his cousin Laure van Heijenoort, who as a teenager lived for several years with her parents in one of Mies van der Rohe's Lafayette Park townhouses in Detroit and attended school at Eliel Saarinen's Cranbrook campus.
Paul Guyer, Laure van Heijenoort
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Thomas Crow, The Artist in the Counterculture: Bruce Conner to Mike Kelley and Other Tales from the Edge (2023)

open access: yesAesthetic Investigations, 2023
Thomas Crow’s book The Artist in the Counterculture: Bruce Conner to Mike Kelley and Other Tales from the Edge reappraises West Coast art as enmeshed in the counterculture.
Mark Harris
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Aesthetic Disinterestedness in Neuroaesthetics: A Phenomenological Critique

open access: yesAesthetic Investigations, 2020
In recent neuroaesthetic discussion, neuroscientists have linked aesthetic pleasure to the brain’s reward systems, but they have also attempted to dissociate it from utilitarian rewards and ultimately explain it as a disinterested state of mind.
Fotini Vassiliou
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Why It Matters Who Poses

open access: yesAesthetic Investigations, 2023
I make the case for modelling as a collection of creative practices that work with various art forms as a promising area of work. I achieve this by exploring three questions. First, are models not merely a prop employed by the artist?
Aurélie Debaene
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Naked, Fat, and Fabulous

open access: yesAesthetic Investigations, 2023
This paper attempts to bring together two lines of thought that might seem unrelated. The first is the idea that the life class should be a safe space that respects and nurtures the creative autonomy of life models.
A.W. Eaton
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Ordinary Language Film Studies

open access: yesAesthetic Investigations, 2020
This essay explains Ordinary Language Philosophy (OLP), because it is relatively unfamiliar to those working in the field of Film-Philosophy, and proposes it as beneficial to film study.
Andrew Klevan
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