In 1993, the artist scratched the surface of a huge rotating black disc while listening to music, following the rhythm with one hand and the melody with the other to create a record
of his aesthetic response to music in Record Drawing (Conlan Nancarrow Studies for Player Piano Vol.
Art is clearly an expression
of our aesthetic response to beauty.
On the methodological possibilities in «reader response,» see Wolfgang Iser, The Act of Reading: A Theory
of Aesthetic Response (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978), and the collection of essays, Susan R. Sulieman and Inge Crosman, eds., The Reader in the Text (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1980).
A Theory
of Aesthetic Response.
Not exact matches
It is subjective and rooted in emotional
responses,
responses which are easy to manufacture in our
aesthetic age through the instruments
of pop culture.
The sense
of beauty is a positive
response growing out
of a relationship
of the person to the
aesthetic object.
Beauty is felt when there is some congruence between the
aesthetic object and the observer's pattern
of sense perception and related
responses.
They have so underemphasized the empirical way, which concentrates on the physical
response to the past, that the power
of aesthetic experience has been neglected.
While the rationalizing
aesthetic emphasizes the intellectual organization
of the world through propositions and propositional feelings, the empirical
aesthetic emphasizes the immediate, physical, emotional, and nonconscious
response to the world.
Gabriele Schwab, «Reader -
response and the
Aesthetic Experience
of Otherness», Stanford Literature Review 3 (1992), 127.
There is beauty and simplicity in the laws
of nature, and an
aesthetic element in the
response of the scientist.
So when we look at the religious aspect
of human existence and see what contributions process thought may have to make to this inescapable and indestructible manifestation
of the human spirit, we shall need to emphasize that it is to be understood not in the wooden fashion that so often has prevailed in institutional churches and in conventional religious communities but as a matter
of imaginative and
aesthetic response to the human situation and to whatever is supremely worshipful in the cosmos — that is, to what religion calls «God.»
In short, it is the
aesthetic dimension, the beauty portrayed in the mind and story
of Jesus that calls forth a distinctively religious rather than merely ethical
response from the Christian believer.
In
response to this set
of questions we must again call to mind the notions
of physical reality, perception and causation described in the earlier chapters, and the
aesthetic notion
of value sketched in the previous one.
In their experiments, McDermott and his colleagues investigated
aesthetic responses to music by playing combinations
of notes to three groups
of people: the Tsimane» and two other groups
of Bolivians that had experienced increasing levels
of exposure to Western music.
A collage
of styles and emotional
responses, the album incorporates every
aesthetic we would expect from Radiohead without hearing the album, this time leaning more toward the dreamlike than to the arena sound, all the while sounding fresh and non-repetitive: «A Moon Shaped Pool» is irrefutably a Radiohead release and irrefutably its own.
The three films in his Batman trilogy have aroused a wide range
of responses, spanning such topics as the director's
aesthetic approach, the self - consciously realistic tone
of the films, and even their political underpinnings.
Still, this alternately condescending and hazy material doesn't trigger the kind
of sharp
aesthetic choices Mendes and collaborators made in
response to past projects from «American Beauty» to «Revolutionary Road.»
The low overall incidence
of teachers in the entire sample asking higher level questions should concern us: Differences among schools notwithstanding, only 16 %
of the teachers in grades 1 - 3 in this study were frequently observed asking higher level,
aesthetic response questions.
Even though many
of the practices
of the most accomplished teachers in this study, such as coaching in word recognition during actual reading and asking higher level,
aesthetic response questions, were mirrored in our analyses
of teachers in the most effective schools, this does not mean that all
of the most accomplished teachers worked in the most effective schools.
The information was organized according to common emerging themes that included
aesthetic engagement (the intrinsic value
of attending a theater event), catharsis and empathy (emotional
responses and shifts in understanding), and dialog and changes in social relationships that resulted from watching the play.
The DELTA study demonstrates how arts learning promotes multiple literacy learning processes that depend more on creative
response, imagination, experimentation and
aesthetic experience than do methods
of learning that emphasize formulaic
responses to rule - based literacy instruction.
They are clear about the purposes
of teacher - and student - led discussions
of texts, and include a balance
of lower and higher - level questions focusing on efferent and
aesthetic response.
Housen discusses how she measures
aesthetic response and gives examples
of viewer
responses from Stages I and II.
Needless to say, a child must go beyond a yes or no answer (e.g., in the case
of an opinion or
aesthetic response).
Aside from the
aesthetic upgrades, Nissan has confirmed the concept has retuned suspension, high performance tyres and a recalibrated brain improving the
response of its electric motor.
Part
of the original Mission E Concept's positive
response came directly from a new
aesthetic taking advantage
of the new packaging set.
Encouraging children to examine the components
of a book ties in neatly with the Common Core State Standards, and, below, you'll find suggested activities that prompt children's
aesthetic responses while linking to individual standards.
In a
response to Gustav Courbet's The Artist's Studio, Oursler exhibited Studio: Seven Months
of My
Aesthetic Education (Plus Some), featuring a multimedia installation, at the Metropolitan Museum
of Art in New York.
Better to remain on your own two feet, ever alert to the inevitability
of surprise and
of betrayal, not the least by your own
aesthetic responses.
Simultaneously, West Coast artists such as Larry Bell, John McCracken, Joe Goode and John McLaughlin, were forming their own
response to these issues and developing a Minimalist
aesthetic and set
of principals that transcended the formal aspects
of the movement and relied on a more spiritual and ethereal practice.
A leading artist
of the 1980s, David Wojnarowicz is known for the richly
aesthetic and strongly activist works that he made in
response to the AIDS crisis.
Hers was a challenging early
response to the Pop art
aesthetic, a sort
of «meta - Pop», if you will, that anticipated the controversial «appropriation art»
of the likes
of Richard Prince and Eric Doeringer.
Like Life thus provides a point
of departure for examining historical and contemporary preconceptions
of what constitutes a work
of art, as well as emotional, physical, and
aesthetic responses to the human body across time.»
These works
of art elicit diverse
aesthetic responses to white, reflective surfaces, and the play
of light and shadow contrasted with solids and voids.
His employment
of industrial and utilitarian materials in subversive techniques comment on rapid shift in
aesthetic standards and public's
response to constant flow
of visual data.
He also suggested that the reason we experience
aesthetic emotion in
response to the significant form
of a work
of art was that we perceive that form as an expression
of an experience the artist has.
In it, I reflect on the concept
of ambivalence, exploring the antinomies
of feeling vs. judgment as
aesthetic responses, and how that plays out within art criticism and art practice.
The ominous
aesthetic and use
of charged materials were part
of these artists» immediate
response to the lived experience
of the Second World War.
An early follower
of Walter Pater, she wrote with an extreme attention to her own
responses to artworks, and a level
of psychological sensitivity rarely seen in any
aesthetic writing.
This approach dovetails with what Kobena Mercer (2016) named «cut - and - mix aesthetics,» or call and
response in visual art by African American and Black British artists, as paradigmatic
of post-1980s black diaspora
aesthetic practice.
Known as In the Land
of the Dead, Stepping on the Tail
of a Rainbow, the new body
of work revives scroll paintings, totemic sculptures, religious iconography, and art produced in
response to natural disasters in Murakami's signature sharp, colorful
aesthetic.
His early interest in unorthodox materials including barbed wire, newsprint, and scrap lumber were a direct
response to the context
of postwar Korea and today the artist continues to balance
aesthetic concerns and an innovative technique within a historical milieu.
These were created in
response to the heroic
aesthetic defining the 19th Century marble busts
of Long Island industrialists.
Seemingly in
response to the conceptual sculpture
of American artist Bruce Nauman, the artist proposes
aesthetic perspectives rooted in current Asian reality with reference to the context
of a Vietnamese society heavily impacted by economic transformation.
And judging from the rave
response to the shows, it still informs, however critically and with any number
of realignments in
aesthetic and political priorities, a good deal
of contemporary art and criticism today.
Mills's squares this time, however, rely less on their identification as revivals
of modernist
aesthetic than as accessible, sensitive meditations on the affecting presence
of marks, dabs, lines, scribbles, doodles, smudges, shapes and other basic visual
responses.
An early follower
of Walter Pater, her work is characterized by extreme attention to her own
responses to artworks, and a level
of psychological sensitivity rarely seen in any
aesthetic writing.
Hindsight is twenty - twenty, but the shifts
of emphasis throughout his career were always well - reasoned
responses to the
aesthetic logic
of his art.
Finnish fashion has its own
aesthetic; warm fabrics, bright colours (in
response to those months
of cold and darkness), and a slightly eccentric look.