Using the tensions between representation and represented reality as a cognitive tool, some of his recent concerns are related to the colonisation
of aesthetic experience by capital.
Not exact matches
Thus relational power is here understood as the ability (1) to be affected, in the sense, especially,
of being open, sensitive, receptive, and empathic; (2) to create oneself out
of what has been
experienced by synthesizing that data into an
aesthetic unity; and (3) to influence others
by the way in which one has received and responded to their influence.
As his mind turned increasingly to philosophy, the physicist in him sought to understand the whole
of reality and not only man, whilst the aesthete in him interpreted all reality
by extrapolation from human
experience, thus finding
aesthetic value in all actuality.
The reader and the text are partners collaborating as co-creators in an
aesthetic event
of understanding that,
by generating an
experience of meaning, originate something that did not exist before.
Hartshorne's position on abortion is also influenced
by his theory
of aesthetic value, which emphasizes that a diversity
of experiences balanced
by an aesthetically pleasing amount
of complexity and orderliness contributes to life and to God, more fully than do less balanced
experiences.
By approaching the question
of mind and nature in this way Whitehead is able to provide us with an aesthetically rich understanding
of nature, which at the same time preserves a necessary role for reason and the search for truth as an indispensable element in the determination
of conscious
experience, the enhancement
of our
aesthetic sensibilities, and the general advancement
of civilization as such.
The panexperientialist version
of physicalism does justice to this fact
by portraying the mind in each moment (that is, each dominant occasion
of experience) as having both a physical pole, which is constituted
by the causal influences from the physical environment, and a mental pole, which entertains ideal possibilities, including logical, ethical, and
aesthetic norms.
The delight and the discipline in the
aesthetic experience are nicely recorded
by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, two
of the greatest modern painters.
Finite beauty powerfully points towards the infinite but unreachable beauty
of God, arousing in us who
experience it both joy in possession, and pain in the perceived absence,
of the one to whom we may be drawn and directed
by a particular
aesthetic event.
If indeed we are to judge all thought
by the way it «promotes the art
of life,» then I think that we must recognize that there are many ways in which that «art» can be promoted, just as there are many different forms and styles within the fine arts, all
of which can give rise to particular kinds
of rich
aesthetic experience.9
The fact is that our
experience gives us all this together, as being profoundly one in impact upon us; we can not cut up the world
of experience, after the fashion
of an earlier philosophy, and speak as if that which in its
aesthetic quality has subjective appeal must lack any genuine reality in the world itself, simply because it does not lend itself to a particular kind
of analysis
by measurement or testing.
«actual occasions» are shaped not only
by logical reasoning, but includes all aspects
of one's subjective
experiences, including the use
of ones imagination,
aesthetic feelings, and other forms
of non-cognitive and unconscious influences.
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.
Beyond its sustainability credentials, glass has many
aesthetic qualities that can be turned to the advantage
of the brands that use it
by reaching out and engaging more at an emotional level with consumers in the overall product
experience.
Lindsay will oversee all aspects
of the culinary
experience at Bardessono and for Lucy Restaurant & Bar, the hotel's award - winning, signature restaurant presenting innovative, garden - inspired cuisine that embodies the property's «exceptional
by nature» modern
aesthetic and eco-spirit.
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.
[But] the soul is created [and] enhanced
by the people working on it and
experiencing it and these initiatives can come to life in magical ways resulting in repeat business,» says Ghizlan Guenez, CEO
of The Modist, a Dubai - based e-commerce site that offers contemporary designer brands like Stella Jean and Maison Rabih Kayrouz to women whose religious, cultural or personal tastes lean to a modest style
aesthetic.
Because
of her, and with her, I am able —
by moments — to move out
of my own natural larval state and
experience movies not just as deliverers
of entertainment, conveyors
of meaning, or objects
of aesthetic contemplation, but as pure fields
of emotional and sensory intensity, almost like rooms to which one can return.»
Phantom Thread is a sumptuous
aesthetic experience full
of masterful performances and craft, orchestrated
by a master filmmaker.
Not only does that reading explain the fervent use
of voice - over, never more present here, recounting and musing on each
experience with that hushed, inimitable whisper, but it also explains the unique
aesthetic of Malick's films: his desire to capture fragmented but ideal forms
of corporeal, natural and architectural beauty, rendered so
by Emmanuel Lubezki's superlative cinematography and some elliptical, compelling editing.
In The Dynamics
of Creation, Anthony Storr, the British psychiatrist, contends that an individual who «fears love almost as much as he fears hatred» may turn to creative activity not only out
of an impulse to
experience aesthetic pleasure, or the delight
of exercising an active mind, but also to defend himself against anxiety stimulated
by conflicting demands for detachment and human contact.
Every single detail
of the
experience, as well as the
aesthetic, from the tiles to the music to the Bensley Butlers» uniforms, has been personally overseen
by Bill.
The brand's hand - picked collection
of hotels are independently owned, but united
by a passion for thought - provoking design,
aesthetic and service - driven
experiences.
The overworked shares a similar
aesthetic but is actually more a free - roaming
experience in which the player may find hidden paths
by sneaking behind a tree or walking along the edge
of the water, for example.
· A unique, endless game with original estimation - based gameplay · A relaxing gameplay that keeps you in trance
by engaging your special estimation skill · Cool combos that make a skilled player keep going on forever · A minimal audio - visual
experience that evolves as you play and explore your
aesthetic sense · A vast selection
of game - altering modes and settings
By raising these basic questions, this online debate intends to open a discussion about the comprehension
of art, art making and
aesthetic experience, about how these comprise a world.
Employing the materials, the geometric
aesthetic and the neutral palette
of audio technology, Jones explores how the
experience of listening to recorded music is shaped
by the equipment used and
by the architecture in which it is installed.
Then and Now at Kayne Griffin Corcoran is thoughtfully curated to trace the critical turning points in Corse's 50 - year exploration
of minimalist reductions that expand the field
of aesthetic awareness through inter-active artworks that we
experience by moving around them.
Informed
by her early
experience studying biology, Chitty's work enacts a search for moments
of aesthetic and resonant order — achieved through a series
of meticulously crafted visual and material arrangements.
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.
Other works in the exhibition include Jorge Pardo's handcrafted wooden palette and modernist designed furniture that question the nature
of the
aesthetic experience; pioneering conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth's discourse on aesthetics in neon, An Object Self - Defined, 1966; Rachel Lachowicz's 1992 row
of urinals cast in red lipstick, which delivers a feminist critique
of Duchamp's readymade; Richard Pettibone's paintings
of photographs
of Fountain; Richard Phillips» recent paintings based on Gerhard Richter's highly valued work; Miami artist Tom Scicluna's neon sign, «Interest in Aesthetics,» a critique
of the use
of aesthetics in Fort Lauderdale's ordinance on homelessness; the French collaborative Claire Fontaine's lightbox highlighting Duchamp's critical comments about art juries; Corey Arcangel's video Apple Garage Band Auto Tune Demonstration, 2007, which tweaks the concept
of aesthetics in the digital age; Bernd and Hilla Becher's photographs, Four Water Towers, 1980, that reveal the potential for
aesthetic choices within the same typological structures; and works
by Elad Lassry and Steven Baldi, who explore the
aesthetic history
of photography.
Inspired
by a period
of insomnia and consequent reflection on the transience
of our existence, the letters and words emerge and dissolve depending on both our physical relationship to them and the relative weight
of the overall
aesthetic experience.
«The Illusion
of Light» brings together works
by contemporary artists who, from the 1960s to today, have explored the physical and
aesthetic, symbolic and philosophical stakes
of an essential dimension
of human
experience: light.
During a visit to the MoMA he was inspired
by the Robert Motherwell painting Elegy to the Spanish Republic: «The first
aesthetic experience... He felt a sensation
of high visceral excitement in his stomach, and it seemed as though his eyes and stomach were directly connected».
Without draining his works
of the pleasurable aspect
of looking, Bernadet paints the pieces whose
aesthetic beauty conceals a more sinister subversion
of the very means
by which that
experience is delivered to us — our visual senses.
During a visit to MoMA he was struck
by the Robert Motherwell painting Elegy to the Spanish Republic: «The first
aesthetic experience... He felt a sensation
of high visceral excitement in his stomach, and it seemed as though his eyes and stomach were directly connected» (S. Stealingworth, p. 12).
Although strikingly heterogeneous, the affinity between the two artists lies implicitly in their shared interest in invoking an
aesthetic experience by employing «low resolution» both as a visual device and as a perceptual agent, rendering an embodied looking / seeing, seeking to grasp the technological and psychological intricacies
of reality.
Together they celebrate the agency and strength granted in self - actualization
by means
of owning
aesthetic and sentimental environments, the ability to maintain, preserve and reinvent the container
of personal
experience.
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.
Much more than an
aesthetic experience, enjoying art is an intellectual exercise enhanced
by broadening our understanding
of art history and artists» ideas and motivations, insight ripe for the picking in countless books and catalogs.
By inviting viewers to
experience the conversion
of aesthetic standards and the fragility
of reality that occurs when the familiar is repositioned in another context through sensory
experiences, his work tells us that all things in the world are constantly changing.
There is not,
of course, and there has never been, a single black
experience, and this is exactly what the Tate's new exhibition, Soul
of a Nation, tells us definitively: there are artists who have things to say about their position, but they aren't united
by an
aesthetic, strategy or political ideology.
Bowled over
by the
aesthetic experience of great art but novices in connoisseurship, he added, «We had to go from minus 10 to plus 100.»
When I was twelve years old, my strongest
aesthetic persuasion was graphic design, fostered
by encounters on Tumblr and my
experience of design in the real world.
This exhibition
of works
by James Lee Byars includes a major gilded work, as well as works on paper, in which gold is the medium for an
aesthetic experience rooted in an ideal
of luminous, inaccessible perfection.
His use
of blown glass is an effort to explore materials that allow for both an
aesthetic and emotional
experience to create a piece that's sinister and somehow active while remaining functionally inert; he cites seeking out images
of parasites and viruses as part
of his research process for this piece, inspired
by their ability to alter the space and living bodies around them without ever fully revealing themselves.
Dunne, Anthony, Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products,
Aesthetic Experience & Critical Design, published
by Royal College
of Art, London, UK, 1999
By confronting both the forms stemming from art history and ordinary forms, Gabriel Kuri thus offers us a broader conception
of sculpture, in which the objects from everyday life fully participate in the
aesthetic experience.
Matsuyama's work responds to his own bi-cultural
experience of growing up between Japan and America
by bringing together aspects
of both Eastern and Western
aesthetic systems.
It is an
aesthetic that links many
of the women artists who feature in this issue, including Barbara Hepworth (1903 — 1975), whose forthcoming Tate Britain exhibition celebrates not only her long life
of radical experimentation (both in the creation
of her artworks and also the way they were to be
experienced by the viewer), but also how important an international figure she became, with exhibitions across the globe from a relatively young age.