Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense
ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
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Brain plasticity in response to artistic and non-artistic training aimed at promoting creativity: How can we enhance creativity and capture the process in neuroscience? [PDF]
Arkhipova A +3 more
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ABSTRACT Philosophers often characterize perception as image‐like. There is little agreement, however, about what constitutes an imagistic or iconic representation. This article identifies five signature properties of iconic representations endorsed in the philosophical and scientific literature: item‐richness, feature‐richness, spatiotemporal ...
Jake Quilty‐Dunn
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Auditory imagery and poetry-elicited emotions: a study on the hard of hearing. [PDF]
Piţur S, Tufar I, Miu AC.
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‘There Has Been a Scandal’: Cultural Performers and the Strangers’ Churches of London
ABSTRACT Despite what one might assume to have been a rigid line between London's refugee community—with its strict brand of Protestantism—and the city's performance cultures—often the target of strict Protestants' ire—historical records reveal a number of overlaps between those domains.
Matteo Pangallo
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"Voices through masks: a stylistic analysis of selected Covid-19 pandemic poems". [PDF]
Galal-Eldin N, Zaki Eldin A.
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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The Influence of Text Genre on Eye Movement Patterns During Reading. [PDF]
Markevich M, Streltsova A.
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A scoping review on arts-based interventions for the mental health of refugee and asylum-seeking children and youth. [PDF]
Yang N, Gong Y.
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Structural Injustice and Self‐Development
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Azizjon Bagadirov
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