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Author: Antony L. Cothey
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 0415033578
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCothey gives a concise and systematic account of the leading philosophical ideas about art and aesthetics from ancient times to the present day.
Author: Scott L. Christensen
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780974412023
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: R. Dale Guthrie
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780226311265
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Author: Eliot Deutsch
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780791431115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a theory of art which is at once universal in its general conception and historically-grounded in its attention to aesthetic practices in diverse cultures. Argues that art, especially today, enjoys a special kind of autonomy but that it has, nevertheless, important social and political responsibilities.
Author: Tim McNulty
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781435113954
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jaroslav Havelka
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9401195129
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo single factor determined the growth of this book. It may have been that as a novice researcher in Behavioral Psychology I experienced growing discontent with the direction of intellectual activity in which the accent was on methodology and measurement, with a distinct atmosphere of dogmatism, insecurity and defensiveness. The anathema of tender-mindedness was attached to any study of mental manifes tations that avoided laboratory confirmation and statistical significance. Man in his uniqueness and unpredictable potentialities remained un explored. Yet outside the systematic vivisection of variables and their measurement men of originality and genius were studying the mind in its complex yet natural interaction of aspirations, values and creative capacities. It was almost too easy for me to turn to them for the re orientation of my psychological interest, and it was not difficult to find in Freud the most daring and penetrating representant of humanistic psychology. Furthermore, it could have been the fact that Freud's thoughts on creative processes appeared to me at once starkly original and yet incomplete and fragmentary, that led me to reconsider and expand on them. Freud's fascination with culture and creativity, although frank and serious, led him to a peculiar indecisiveness and overcautiousness which was radically different from the dramatic boldness of his thera peutic methods and the depth of his personality theories.
Author: Edited by: Kisak
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2015-11-12
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781519287595
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAesthetics is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty. It is more scientifically defined as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste. More broadly, scholars in the field define aesthetics as "critical reflection on art, culture and nature." In modern English, the term aesthetic can also refer to a set of principles underlying the works of a particular art movement or theory for example; the Cubist aesthetic. For some, aesthetics is considered a synonym for the philosophy of art since Hegel, while others insist that there is a significant distinction between these closely related fields. In practice, aesthetic judgement refers to the sensory contemplation or appreciation of an object (not necessarily an art object), while artistic judgement refers to the recognition, appreciation or criticism of art or an art work. Philosophical aesthetics has not only to speak about art and to produce judgments about art works, but has also to give a definition of what art is. Art is an autonomous entity for philosophy, because art deals with the senses (i. e. the etymology of aesthetics) and art is as such free of any moral or political purpose. Hence, there are two different conceptions of art in aesthetics: art as knowledge or art as action, but aesthetics is neither epistemology nor ethics. This book concentrates on the branch of philosophy called aesthetics.
Author: Miguel Tamen
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012-10-30
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 0674067959
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comic, serious inquiry into the nature of art takes its technical vocabulary from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. It is ridiculous to think of poems, paintings, or films as distinct from other things in the world, including people. Talking about art should be contiguous with talking about other relevant matters.
Author: Christopher Alexander
Publisher: Nature of Order
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 0972652914
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Book Oneof this four-volume work, Alexander describes a scientific view of the world in which all space-matter has perceptible degrees of life, and establishes this understanding of living structures as an intellectual basis for a new architecture. He identifies fifteen geometric properties which tend to accompany the presence of life in nature, and also in the buildings and cities we make. These properties are seen over and over in nature and in the cities and streets of the past, but they have almost disappeared in the impersonal developments and buildings of the last hundred years. This book shows that living structures depend on features which make a close connection with the human self, and that only living structure has the capacity to support human well-being.
Author: Martin Kemp
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780520223523
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShort, pithy, beautifully illustrated articles on various fascinating intersections of art and science, originally published in the British magazine Nature.
