category: aesthetics

History of Beauty and on Ugliness

The first illustrated book by one of the world’s most acclaimed authors, History of Beauty presents an intriguing journey into the wonderful realm of aesthetics, exploring the ever-changing concept of the beautiful from ancient Greece to ...

The Infinity of Lists

Reflections on how the idea of catalogs has changed over the centuries and how, from one period to another, it has expressed the spirit of the times. Companion to the author's History of beauty and On ugliness.

Aesthetic Education Group: Second Year Report

... clothing of Africa dress up day , must maintain character of dress . Hawaii folk dances , films , tinikling dances . - Unit or Grade Level Teaching Focus Language Arts Arts Related.

Modern Painters ...: pt. 1. Of general principles. pt. 2. Of truth

John Ruskin. glowing like a sun or star at whatever distance we stand , and ... always different in tone from the lower ones , these from the rest of the ... me to decide . I have only to point to the daring of Turner in this respect ...

The Genius of Architecture, Or, The Analogy of that Art with Our Sensations

... bedchamber itself , whether on the dais of the bed or off it . Even when the bedchamber was empty , those passing through the room had to make a bow to the bed . The royal bed had assumed its purely ceremonial role as a lit de parade as ...

Beauty Matters

... Art of the Bedchamber , p . 100 . 5. Chinese source from " Yu - fang pi - chueh " ( " Secrets of the Jade Chamber " ) in Yeh , 1903 , translated in Wile , Art of the Bedchamber , p . 106 . 6. Ibid . , p . 106 , note 61 . 7. Ibid . , p ...

Journal of Literature and Aesthetics

... stories . Sujatha ( Rangarajan ) , is popularly known as the " commercial king " in the world of short stories . The progenitor of the modern Tamil science short story form , Sujatha's collection of symbolic sketches transcends the ...

Barcelona and Madrid: Social Networks of the Avant-Garde

Social Networks of the Avant-Garde Aránzazu Ascunce, Aránzazu Ascunce Arenas. 1924 1925 Hélices, book of poetry by ... Diego Manual de espumas, collection of poetry by G. Diego La sombrilla japonesa, collection of poetry by I. Vando ...

Sangeet Natak

... stories from Sivapurana . In Panditharadhya Charita , there is an elaborate description of the various dance styles , both margi and desi ... Telugu means Melam Vuru , the village inhabited by Melams . These artists were performing a number ...

Phenomenology, Modernism and Beyond

... Reading and writing come to mean differently ; they acquire new significations : 43 The Gutenberg Elegies is suffused with a sense of loss and anxiety as to what reading online means for the future of the entire humanist cultural project ...

The Psychology of Beauty: Creation of a Beautiful Self

... Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution. NY: Bloomsbury Press. Dutton, D. (2009b ... American Medicine Meets the American Dream. NY: W. W. Norton. Ellman, C. S. ... Analysis of Sexual Habits.”Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 6: 372–404. Ferenczi, S ...

Philosophical Aesthetics and Samuel Beckett

... theatre and his work of 1968 , Towards a Poor Theatre , 127 in which he accomplishes the last revolution in the technique of theatre . After Stanislavsky , Dullin , Meyerhold , Artaud , and Brecht , at the peak of an investigation that ...

Aesthetical and Philosophical Essays

... the sensuous man is led to form and to thought ; by beauty the spiritual man is brought back to matter and restored to the world of sense . From this statement it would appear to follow that between matter and form , between passivity ...

New Organic Architecture: The Breaking Wave

... Ticó , Santa Cruz Province , Argentina . Bull . British Museum ( Natural History ) , Geol . 8 : 45–92 . 1966. New gymnosperms from the Ticó flora , Santa Cruz Province , Argen- tina . Bull . British Museum ( Natural History ) , Geol ...

The Soul of Beauty: A Psychological Investigation of Appearance

... perception of appearance on the part of the therapist . I couldn't answer the question to my satisfaction at the ... life of perception and appearance on the one hand , and the life of practical action and meaning on the other . Perception ...

Aisthetics of the spirits: spirits in Early Modern science, religion, literature and music

... Liber Juratus or Liber Sacer (attributed to Honorius of Thebes), or the Ars notoria and the De quatuor annulis (attributed to Solomon). He also refers to arts which make “the Angelles of God authors of [...] detestable doctrine ...

Aesthetic Alternative

... Book for All and None. Trans. Alexander Tille. London: Macmillan, 1896 ... Pandemonium. By Steve McNicholas and Luke Creswell. UCLA Royce Hall. Los Angeles, 17 November 2010. Performance. “Pandemonium.” Online ... Online Etymology Dictionary ...

The theory of the arts; or, Art in relation to nature, civilization, and man

... art . Astonishment , grief , pain , and terror , which are the only passions evinced in ani- mals , are more boldly and vigorously displayed in them than they are in man . Admiration , veneration , love , mirth , are peculiar to man ...

The Theory of the Arts: Or, Art in Relation to Nature, Civilization, and Man. Comprising an Investigation, Analytical and Critical, Into the Origin, Rise, Province, Principles, and Application of Each of the Arts

... art . Astonishment , grief , pain , and terror , which are the only passions evinced in ani- mals , are more boldly and vigorously displayed in them than they are in man . Admiration , veneration , love , mirth , are peculiar to man ...

Ästhetik der skandinavischen Moderne: Bernhard Glienke zum Gedenken

Er war einer der bedeutendsten Vertreter der deutschsprachigen Neuskandinavistik, ein engagierter Lehrer und profilierter Forscher. Seinem Gedenken sind die Beiträge zur Ästhetik der skandinavischen Moderne gewidmet.

Display - Dispositiv: ästhetische Ordnungen

Displays reformieren das Betrachten. Sie koppeln Bildfeld und Rahmung und machen die bilderzeugenden Apparaturen selbst sichtbar.

Ultrapolemici cu LiTeRe mari si MICI

... ghicitori bazate pe omonimii care provocau nonsensuri (“conundrum”)5. Sau în sec. XIX, când prozatorul român C ... copil mic, probabil! – când el nu le ştie nici acum aceste principii, şi după ce eu publicasem deja în 1983 primul ...

The Body Aesthetic: From Fine Art to Body Modification

... world of the positive " too big nose , described by Mantegazza , into a ... breasts . Stekel presents a case study of a " girl , aged twenty - six , [ who ] suffers from ... ugliest man in the Greek army at Troy . For him the syndrome was ...

I Don't Want to Play Cards with Cézanne, and Other Works: Selections from the Chinese New Wave and Avant-Garde Art of the Eighties

... to ironically scrutinize a beautiful young woman and capture her in a mood which shows her both pensive and tired . Recessed in an illogi- cal space , she sits for us to observe like a butterfly specimen , evoking an ambiguous ...

Th. Die Idee des Schönen.- Das Schöne in Natur und Geist; der Kunststoff.- Das Schöne in der Kunst.- 2. Th. Die bildende Kunst.- Die Musik.- Die Poesie

... Menschen : er ist die beharrliche Einheit , die in den Fluten der Veränderung ewig sie selbst bleibt . Der Mensch ... Gestalt ; lebende Gestalt oder Schönheit ist also des Spieltriebs Sache ; er will so hervorbrin- gen wie der Sinn zu ...

Ethics and Aesthetics: The Moral Turn of Postmodernism

... m a man who loved a woman created by a man . Everything else simply falls short " ( 90 ) . Japanese becomes Chinese ; Madame Butterfly M. Butterfly , a reversal of gender roles and also a reversal of the outcome . For Song Liling the ...

Reflections on the Aesthetics of Futurism, Dadaism, and Surrealism: A Prosody Beyond Words

... Surrealist Aesthetic " deals with what its title would suggest , the key role played by simultaneity in surrealist ... theater by Henri Béhar , Gloria Orenstein , David Zinder , Annabella Melzer , J. Garret Glover , and others . Two aesthetic ...

Theories of the Avant-garde Theatre: A Casebook from Kleist to Camus

... Surrealism. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1965. ———. “Spectacle and Poetry: Surrealism in Theatre and Cinema.” Journal of General Education 27 (1975): 55–68. ——— . Theatre in Dada and Surrealism. Syracuse, NY ...

Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism

... modernismo en España , o un con- flicto entre dos espíritus , " in Homero ... temas españoles e hispanoamericanos , 2d ed . ( San Juan : Universidad de ... Modernismo " in España en América , p . 625 . 101. The bibliography of the ...

Text Into Image, Image Into Text: Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Bicentenary Conference Held at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth (the National University of Ireland) in September 1995

... script by the same author . The difference is apparent when one compares the film Jakob der Lügner to the film Fiddler on the Roof . Aside from the fact that the latter is a musical , it claims in the initial credits to be ' Based on the ...

The Rhetoric of Humanism: Spanish Culture After Ortega Y Gasset

... ( argumento literario ) able to comprise the totality of process , begins with humanism and its best means of expression is the dialogue " ( RM 52 ) . When dialectic is divorced from dialogue , from literature , it becomes mechanical ...

Death in the Funhouse: John Barth and Poststructuralist Aesthetics

This book looks comprehensively at the middle and late texts of John Barth to demonstrate the complexity of the postmodern author - and the never-ending quest for pleasure.

JTLA

... postmodern music since the nineteen seventies abounds with references to ... artists in the seventies ranges from Schnebel ( significant are titles such ... music aesthetics to close the gap between music and audience , between “ serious ...

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