Bodies of Art: the Shaping of Aesthetic Experience
Author: Edward Slopek
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9788822907158
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Aesthetic Experience and Somaesthetics
Author: Richard Shusterman
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-02-12
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9004361928
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays explores the crucial connections between aesthetic experience and the interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics, while further advancing inquiry in both. After the editor’s introduction and three articles examining philosophical accounts of embodiment and aesthetic experience in existentialism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, and pragmatism, the book’s nine remaining articles apply somaesthetic theory to the fine arts (including detailed studies of the body’s role in painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, music, photography, and cinema) but also to diverse arts of living, considering such topics as cosmetics and sexual practice. These interdisciplinary, multicultural essays are written by a distinctively international group of experts, ranging from Asia (China and India) to Europe (Denmark, Finland, Hungary, and Italy) and the United States.
The Aesthetic Field
Author: Arnold Berleant
Publisher: Cybereditions Corporation
Published: 2002-06-01
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781877275258
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArguing that traditional answers to the question "What is art?" are partial at best, Arnold Berleant contends that we need to understand art as a complex aesthetic field encompassing all the factors that form the context and experience of art.
Teaching for Aesthetic Experience
Author: Gene Diaz
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780820456737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe artist/educators in this book invite you to come with them on a journey of discovery into the meaning of teaching for aesthetic experience. With learning as their art, they create educational encounters with passion and feeling, and leave their students with vivid impressions, growth, and change. Each author engages in aesthetic experience from an individual perspective - as poet, dancer, visual artist, or musician - and each of them engages as an educator who brings art into his or her classroom, no matter what the subject. Inspired by the words of philosopher Maxine Greene, the contributors transform the theoretical into the practical, urging students to look to the arts and nature for simple beauty, and awaken their minds to new possibilities of creative learning.
Aesthetic Experience
Author: Richard Shusterman
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 041537832X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the notion of aesthetic experience as well as its value. This title brings together major voices that have directly theorised the concept of aesthetic experience or indirectly worked on topics connected to it.
The Aesthetic Brain
Author: Anjan Chatterjee
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 0199811806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Aesthetic Brain takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey addressing fundamental questions about aesthetics and art. Using neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, Chatterjee shows how beauty, pleasure, and art are grounded biologically, and offers explanations for why beauty, pleasure, and art exist at all.
Art as Experience
Author: John Dewey
Publisher:
Published: 1935
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Aesthetics of Emotion
Author: Gerald C. Cupchik
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-07-28
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 1316538826
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGerald C. Cupchik builds a bridge between science and the humanities, arguing that interactions between mind and body in everyday life are analogous to relations between subject matter and style in art. According to emotional phase theory, emotional reactions emerge in a 'perfect storm' whereby meaningful situations evoke bodily memories that unconsciously shape and unify the experience. Similarly, in expressionist or impressionist painting, an evocative visual style can spontaneously colour the experience and interpretation of subject matter. Three basic situational themes encompass complementary pairs of primary emotions: attachment (happiness - sadness), assertion (fear - anger), and absorption (interest - disgust). Action episodes, in which a person adapts to challenges or seeks to realize goals, benefit from energizing bodily responses which focus attention on the situation while providing feedback, in the form of pleasure or pain, regarding success or failure. In high representational paintings, style is transparent, making it easier to fluently identify subject matter.
Aesthetic Experience
Author: George Hagman
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2011-07
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9042033002
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"George Hagman looks anew at psychoanalytic ideas about art and beauty through the lens of current developmental psychology that recognizes the importance of attachment and affiliative motivational systems. In dialogue with theorists such as Freud, Ehrenzweig, Kris, Rank, Winnicott, Kohut, and many others, Hagman brings the psychoanalytic understanding of aesthetic experience into the 21st century. He amends and extends old concepts and offers a wealth of stimulating new ideas regarding the creative process, the ideal, beauty, ugliness, and -perhaps his most original contribution-the sublime. Especially welcome is his grounding of aesthetic experience in intersubjectivity and health rather than individualism and pathology. His emphasis on form rather than the content of an individual's aesthetic experience is a stimulating new direction for psychoanalytic theory of art. With this work Hagman stands in the company of his predecessors with this deeply-learned, sensitively conceived, and provocative general theory of human aesthetic experience."Ellen Dissanayake, author of "Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began" and "Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why."
Thinking through the Body
Author: Richard Shusterman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-09-17
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 1139536648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a richly rewarding vision of the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics. Composed of fourteen wide-ranging but finely integrated essays by Richard Shusterman, the originator of the field, Thinking through the Body explains the philosophical foundations of somaesthetics and applies its insights to central issues in ethics, education, cultural politics, consciousness studies, sexuality and the arts. Integrating Western philosophy, cognitive science and somatic methodologies with classical Asian theories of body, mind and action, these essays probe the nature of somatic existence and the role of body consciousness in knowledge, memory and behavior. Deploying somaesthetic perspectives to analyze key aesthetic concepts (such as style and the sublime), he offers detailed studies of embodiment in drama, dance, architecture and photography. The volume also includes somaesthetic exercises for the classroom and explores the ars erotica as an art of living.
