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Everyday Aesthetics - Review

open access: yesAesthetic Investigations, 2023
This article reviews the volume 'Everydayness: Contemporary Aesthetic Approaches', edited by Lisa Gombini and Adrián Kvokačka. Thomas Froy assesses the relation, explored by the contributing authors, between the notion of the 'everyday' and the field of aesthetics, focussing on questions about the 'who' and the 'what' of everyday aesthetics, and its ...
Thomas Froy
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Everyday Aesthetics, Locality and Racialisation [PDF]

open access: yesCultural Sociology, 2020
In this essay we reflect on the relationship between aesthetic practices and racialised conceptions of belonging. In particular, we explore attributions of beauty and ugliness, order and disorder, as these are made in relation to local space, and we consider how these attributions can be linked to proprietorial claims about who is welcome in those ...
Smith, A   +3 more
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"Darling Look! It’s a Banksy!” Viewers’ Material Engagement with Street Art and Graffiti [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This chapter examines viewers’ affective encounters with street art and graffiti, with attention to the critical framework provided by Rancière (2004), whose work suggests a method for investigating our aesthetic practices of participation (or exclusion)
Flynn, Danny, Hansen, Susan
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Analyzing the Aesthetics of Participation of Media Architecture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper presents a theoretical framework for analyzing the aesthetics of participation of media architecture. The framework is based on a close reading of French philosopher Jacques Rancière and provides four points of emphasis: modes of sense ...
Bishop C.   +10 more
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Empirical Challenges in Organizational Aesthetics Research: Towards a Sensual Methodology [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Editors' Introduction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
A brief overview of the current status of the scholarship on Heidegger and contemporary art and of the contributions included in the special ...
Backman, Jussi   +2 more
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Up the nose of the beholder? Aesthetic perception in olfaction as a decision-making process [PDF]

open access: yes, 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.
Bailey Aubrey   +7 more
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Criticism and Function in Critical Design Practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article focuses on critical design as a field of industrial design practice. It considers some barriers and misconceptions to critical design practice being seen as part of a disciplinary project.
Malpass, Matt
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The Fear of Aesthetics in Art and Literary Theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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