Sentences with phrase «of aesthetic experience»

This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience and aesthetic objects.
This powerful art claims a place, a reality, for the deepest and most rewarding varieties of aesthetic experience, in our time and in our visual language.
It can not assure us that the whole of our aesthetic experience is not fundamentally deceptive.
«The American» is an exercise in style and withheld sentiment, a bleak and atmospheric art - house thriller that's more of an aesthetic experience than an emotional one.
Together these exhibition projects consider the essential components and fundamental dynamics of aesthetic experience: light, color, pictorial form, the context of the exhibition.
This reality helps us understand Henry's exasperated incredulity at the spectacle of the nation becoming richer and richer while its public realm became poorer and poorer — his deep - seated anger at the inconceivably extensive degradation of aesthetic experience in postwar America.
Whitehead thereby does not leave the empirical facts as merely arbitrary, but tries to account for them on the basis of «the doctrine that an actual fact is a fact of aesthetic experience.
Yet they impart this perception without regret, as if our transient awareness were not only without tragedy, but constituted the very essence of aesthetic experience.
Having graduated from the University of Toronto with degrees in Philosophy and Semiotics in 1996, Jacob's work addresses issues of social interaction and the subjectivity of aesthetic experience.
Brooklyn, NY — February 19, 2014 — Through hardedge paintings in acrylic on canvas Jerry Walden investigates the nature of the aesthetic experience by combining Formalist compositional elements of color, line, pattern and direction with personal emotions and memories.
Although Whitehead never developed his interpretation of aesthetic experience very far, 6 we can deepen our understanding of artistic expression by attention to the theories of Merleau - Ponty.
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.
They have so emphasized the rationalistic way, which concentrates on the intellectual organization of the past, that the meaning of aesthetic experience has been exaggerated.
Intensity of aesthetic experience is satisfying, uplifting, energizing.
It's an explicitly funny, absolutely entertaining three hours that nonetheless leaves us with a distinctive sense of emptiness, despite the fullness of aesthetic experience to which we've just been subject.
The examination of the properties of aesthetic experience reveals essential aspects of our perceptual, cognitive, and semiotic capacities.
The first is related to the phenomenology of aesthetic experience: The understanding of how human beings respond to artworks, how we process linguistic or visual information, and what properties in artworks trigger aesthetic experiences.
(This is not «my» interpretation; it is part of the logic of aesthetic experience.)
Ha's paintings, uniformly titled Conjunctions, propose a kind of aesthetic experience, a qualitative leap into an epic momentum, referencing both spiritual and secular impulses along the way.
Postmodernism deprived painting of originality and first - hand experience at the same time that Greenberg's disembodied abstraction, addressed to eyesight alone, collided with the desire on the part of some artists to retain the wholeness of the aesthetic experience made available by the old masters in their fusion of the haptic quality of sensuous painterly surfaces with the optical melding of colour and light.
Collectively, the works resist the impulse to rush, survey and move on, suggesting instead the possibility of an aesthetic experience, which takes place in another temporal register.
And, yes, in its insistence on interactivity and the privileging of the corporeal and sensual realm of aesthetic experience, Neto's work updates that of Oiticica and Clark.
Whether through paint or video, Pindell squeezes the spatial and temporal attributes of aesthetic experience, and finds new ways to disorganize, or at times even suffocate, the space of aesthetic contemplation.
He brought up Taylor Swift as an example of an under - recognized figure in the arts, whose fangirl audience appreciates her work on a level of aesthetic experience.
Each reveling in visual detail, eliciting an almost iconoclastic charge, the works in this exhibition continue to expose layers of pleasure and discomfort lurking beneath the surface of aesthetic experience.
Joel Fennell will present a new sculptural work that places physical and aural perception at the center of aesthetic experience.
Operating within this zeitgeist, artists experimented with a range of practices that questioned authorship, explored new collective forms of art making, and opened up new modes of aesthetic experience.
A Philosophy and Social Sciences graduate, her research focuses on art and politics, developing a thesis on democratization of the aesthetic experience and horizontal curatorial models.
Whether they major in the field or take a course or two, students have found that informed visual thinking, no less than the pleasure of aesthetic experience, continues to enrich their lives and their work.
The grid works — like all of Gaines» work — are more rooted in philosophy than in the creation of some aesthetic experience.
It shows us whether abstract art is making a wide enough social impact to affect influential tastemakers, and what other types of aesthetic experiences are leaving memorable imprints on the minds and hearts of those who write about art as a profession.
Simultaneously confounding and illuminating, The Intuitionists at the Drawing Center is a puzzle within a puzzle, a conceptual stunt that raises sticky questions about curatorial responsibility and the structuring of aesthetic experience.
The abstract artist can approach man through the most immediate of aesthetic experiences, touching below consciousness and the veneer of attitudes, contacting the whole ego rather than the ego on the defensive.»
«It has been written that time engenders oblivion, but in the particular case of the aesthetic experience, it engenders imagination and memory.
The first of our two schemes is framed in terms of the hierarchical structure of nature and the second in terms of aesthetic experience.
Rob Marks writes about the nature of the aesthetic experience and its effect on self and society.
But a certain amount of bewilderment is, of course, essential to the essence of an aesthetic experience, so if possible, see the more impressionistically organized Phillips Collection before the Hirshhorn.
To provide cultural leadership in Southwest Florida by maintaining a high standard of quality and by offering exhibitions with a wide variety of aesthetic experiences and not otherwise available to area residents and visitors.
Luis Jacob (b. Peru, 1971) works in Toronto as an artist, curator and writer, and his diverse practice addresses issues of social interaction and the subjectivity of aesthetic experience.
«Furthermore, the conquest of each box is added to the pleasure of an enigma; that of the end and of a rebirth; that of a corpse magically revived; that of an aesthetic experience compared to the banality of an object.»
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