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| eastern and western aesthetics: Aesthetics of Everyday Life Curtis L. Carter, Liu Yuedi, 2014-10-02 As a new trend in aesthetics appearing concurrently in the West and the East in the last ten years, the aesthetics of everyday life points to a growing diversification among existing methodologies for pursuing aesthetics, alongside the shift from art-based aesthetics. The cultural diversity manifest in global aesthetics offers common ground for the collaborative efforts of aesthetics in both the West and the East. Given the rapidly growing interest and its potential for attracting new audiences extending beyond the more narrowly focused traditions of twentieth-century analytic and environmental aesthetics, it stands to command its own share of attention in the future of aesthetic studies. The aesthetics of everyday life has become a stream of thought with a global ambition. This interest has led to numerous systematic and in-depth works on this topic, some of which were conducted by the authors represented in this volume. A salient feature of this book is that it not only represents the recent developments of the aesthetics of everyday life in the West, but also highlights the interaction between scholars in the West and the East on this topic. Thus, the project is a contribution toward mutual progress in the collaboration between Western and Eastern aesthetics. What distinguishes this book from other anthologies and monographs on this topic is that it reconstructs the aesthetics of everyday life through cultural dialogue between the West and the East, with a view to building a new form of aesthetics of everyday life, as seen from a global perspective. At present, the aesthetics of everyday life as a newly emergent approach to aesthetics may encounter skepticism among aestheticians accustomed to the rigors of analytic philosophers who prefer to discuss aesthetics at the level of abstract concepts and argument, and who tolerate the particulars of experience mainly as illustrations. But, there is no reason to abandon the pursuit of the aesthetics of everyday life in the face of such objections. On the contrary, there are many benefits to gain in bringing aesthetics to bear on a wider sphere of human life, made possible through efforts to show the relevance of aesthetics to a broader range of human actions. |
| eastern and western aesthetics: The Pursuit of Comparative Aesthetics Mazhar Hussain, 2017-03-02 Comparative aesthetics is the branch of philosophy which compares the aesthetic concepts and practices of different cultures. The way in which cultures conceive of the aesthetic dimension of life in general and art in particular is revelatory of profound attitudes and beliefs which themselves make up an important part of the culture in question. This anthology of essays by internationally recognised scholars in this field brings into one volume some of the most important research in comparative aesthetics, from classic early essays to previously unpublished contemporary pieces. Ranging across cultures and time periods as diverse as ancient Greece, India and China and the modern West and Japan, the essays reveal both similarities and deep differences between the aesthetic traditions concerned. In the course of these expositions and comparisons there emerges the general conclusion that no culture can be fully grasped if its aesthetic ideas are not understood. |
| eastern and western aesthetics: Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West Steve Odin, 2001-04-01 Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West takes up the notion of artistic detachment, or psychic distance, as an intercultural motif for East-West comparative aesthetics. The work begins with an overview of aesthetic theory in the West from the eighteenth-century empiricists to contemporary aesthetics and concludes with a survey of various critiques of psychic distance. Throughout, the author takes a highly innovative approach by juxtaposing Western aesthetic theory against Eastern (primarily Japanese) aesthetic theory. Weaving between cultures and time periods, the author focuses on a remarkably wide range of theories: in the West, the Kantian notion of disinterested contemplation, Heidegger's Gelassenheit, semiotics, and pragmatism; in Japan, Zeami's notion of riken no ken, the Kyoto School's intepretation of nothingness, D. T. Suzuki's analysis of the function of no-mind, and the writings of Kuki Shuzo on Buddhist detachment. Portrait of the artist fiction by such writers as Henry James, James Joyce, Mori Ogai, and Natsume Soseki demonstrates how the main theme of detachment is expressed in literary traditions. The role of sympathy or pragmatism in relation to disinterest is examined, suggesting conflicts within or challenges to the notion of detachment. Researchers and students in Eastern and Western areas of study, including philosophers and religionists, as well as literary and cultural critics, will deem this work an invaluable contribution to cross-cultural philosophy and literary studies. |
| eastern and western aesthetics: The Art of Self-Control: Discipline in Eastern and Western Aesthetics BD Sharma, 2025-05-07 Self-control is often the key to unlocking creativity and excellence in any field. “The Art of Self-Control” examines how discipline and self-regulation impact the creative process, both in the East and the West. The book explores Eastern philosophies like Zen Buddhism and Taoism, where discipline is seen as a spiritual and philosophical pursuit, and contrasts them with Western approaches to mastery, such as the pursuit of perfection in classical art. Through engaging discussions and real-life examples, readers will discover how artists across different cultures have used self-control not just to refine their craft but to shape their personal lives. This book is a guide to harnessing self-discipline to cultivate a deeper connection with your art and achieve lasting mastery. |
| eastern and western aesthetics: Court Ladies Adorning Their Hair with Flowers Fang Zhou, 2020-05 Handscroll;Ink and color on silk;101cm(width)*22cm(height) This painting depicts court ladies in a quiet and spacious garden, living a playful, extravagant life. It is a magnificent Tang Dynasty Palace scroll painting. The women's full and round forms are decked out in a variety of costumes, with their hair in buns perched high on their heads, adorned with fresh flowers. Their movements are leisurely. They flap butterflies, play with dogs, admire cranes, or simply sit idly. Their maids follow them with fans. |
| eastern and western aesthetics: Beyond East and West: Unraveling Aesthetic Traditions Pasquale De Marco, 2025-04-18 Embark on an intellectual voyage that explores the intricate relationship between aesthetics and culture, delving into the diverse aesthetic traditions of East and West. This book presents a series of thought-provoking essays that uncover the unique perspectives, values, and beliefs that underlie the artistic expressions of different societies. Through a comprehensive examination of East-West aesthetic traditions, we challenge assumptions about beauty and aesthetics, inviting readers to embark on a journey of discovery and exploration. We aim to foster a deeper appreciation for the diverse ways in which humans perceive, create, and experience beauty, cultivating a more inclusive and empathetic understanding of the human experience. Key Features: * Explores the historical, philosophical, and cultural factors that shape aesthetic sensibilities, providing a deeper understanding of the multifaceted nature of beauty and its profound impact on human experience. * Juxtaposes diverse artistic traditions, from Chinese calligraphy to African masks, Gothic cathedrals to Islamic architecture, revealing both the common threads that bind humanity and the profound differences that make each culture unique. * Examines the complex relationship between art and society, exploring how aesthetic values and artistic practices are shaped by social, political, and economic forces. * Investigates the role of art as a mirror to society, reflecting its hopes, fears, and aspirations, as well as its injustices and inequalities. * Challenges conventional notions of beauty and aesthetics, encouraging readers to embrace the richness and complexity of aesthetic expression and fostering a more inclusive and empathetic understanding of the human experience. This book is an essential resource for anyone interested in aesthetics, art history, cultural studies, philosophy, and the diverse expressions of human creativity. It offers a comprehensive and thought-provoking exploration of the East-West aesthetic divide, providing valuable insights into the nature of beauty, the power of art, and the role of aesthetics in shaping human experience. If you like this book, write a review on google books! |
| eastern and western aesthetics: Everyday Aesthetics Yuriko Saito, 2007 Yuriko Saito discusses aspects of our everyday experience that have been neglected by modern Western aesthetic theories. |
| eastern and western aesthetics: Tragic Beauty in Whitehead and Japanese Aesthetics Steve Odin, 2016-05-19 This book examines Whitehead’s process aesthetics focusing on two categories, the penumbral beauty of darkness and the tragic beauty of perishability, while establishing parallels with the Japanese sense of evanescent beauty. It clarifies how both traditions develop a religio-aesthetic vision of tragic beauty and its reconciliation in the supreme ecstasy of peace. |
| eastern and western aesthetics: Comparative Aesthetics, Eastern and Western G. Hanumantha Rao, 1974 |
| eastern and western aesthetics: The Aesthetics of Everyday Life Andrew Light, Jonathan M. Smith, 2005 This collection explores the aesthetic qualities of human relationships, sports, taste, smell, food, and natural and built environments. |
| eastern and western aesthetics: A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Art Ann C. Gunter, 2018-09-08 Provides a broad view of the history and current state of scholarship on the art of the ancient Near East This book covers the aesthetic traditions of Mesopotamia, Iran, Anatolia, and the Levant, from Neolithic times to the end of the Achaemenid Persian Empire around 330 BCE. It describes and examines the field from a variety of critical perspectives: across approaches and interpretive frameworks, key explanatory concepts, materials and selected media and formats, and zones of interaction. This important work also addresses both traditional and emerging categories of material, intellectual perspectives, and research priorities. The book covers geography and chronology, context and setting, medium and scale, while acknowledging the diversity of regional and cultural traditions and the uneven survival of evidence. Part One of the book considers the methodologies and approaches that the field has drawn on and refined. Part Two addresses terms and concepts critical to understanding the subjects and formal characteristics of the Near Eastern material record, including the intellectual frameworks within which monuments have been approached and interpreted. Part Three surveys the field’s most distinctive and characteristic genres, with special reference to Mesopotamian art and architecture. Part Four considers involvement with artistic traditions across a broader reach, examining connections with Egypt, the Aegean, and the Mediterranean. And finally, Part Five addresses intersections with the closely allied discipline of archaeology and the institutional stewardship of cultural heritage in the modern Middle East. Told from multiple perspectives, A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Art is an enlightening, must-have book for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of ancient Near East art and Near East history as well as those interested in history and art history. |
| eastern and western aesthetics: Japan, France, and East-West Aesthetics Jan Hokenson, 2004 Japan, France is the first comprehensive history of the idea of Japan in France, as tracked through close readings of canonical French writers and thinkers from the 1860s to the present. The focus is literary and intellectual, the context cultural. The discovery of Japanese woodblock prints in Paris, following the opening of Japan to the West in 1854, was a startling aesthetic encounter that played a crucial role in the Impressionists' and Post-Impressionists' invention of Modernism. French writers also experimented with Japanese aesthetics in their own work, in ways that similarly thread into the foundations of literary Modernism. Japonisme (the practice of adapting Japanese aesthetics to creative work in the West) became a sustained French tradition, in texts by such writers as Zola and Proust through Barthes and Bonnefoy. Each generation discovered new Japanese arts and genres, commented on the work of their predecessors in this vein, and broke still more ground in East-West aesthetics to innovate in the forms of Western literature and thought. To read literary history in this way unsettles Eurocentric assumptions about many of the French writers who are commonly considered the |
| eastern and western aesthetics: Four Essays on Aesthetics Zehou Li, Jane Cauvel, 2006-01-01 Available for the first time in English, Li Zehou's philosophical aesthetics interpret the historical origins and evolution of aesthetic experience and their significance to the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual growth of human beings. Although LI's ideas have been debated in China for more than two decades, his conversations with Jane Cauvel will now allow Western students and philosophers to re-encounter Chinese and Western conceptions of aesthetics, and the way art shapes indiciduals, societies, technology, and the future of humankind. |
| eastern and western aesthetics: Aspects of Eastern & Western aesthetics , 2011 Contributed research papers chiefly in Sanskrit on aesthetics in Sanskrit and Vedic literature and Indic philosophy. |
| eastern and western aesthetics: Comparative Aesthetics, East and West Angraj Chaudhary, 1991 |
| eastern and western aesthetics: Unsettled Boundaries Curtis L. Carter, 2017 Presents contemporary reflections of Chinese and Western philosophers who explore issues of common interest in aesthetics focused on interrelations of philosophy, art and ethics East/West. Chinese authors connect knowledge of western philosophical aesthetics to grounding in their own Chinese traditions. Western aestheticians explore common ground between western and eastern aesthetics. |
| eastern and western aesthetics: East and West in Aesthetics Grazia Marchianò, 1997 |
| eastern and western aesthetics: Aesthetics and Ethics in Eastern and Western Philosophy Edward Williams, 2018-08-27 The motivation for this book is to examine the concept of value within the context of the metaphilosophy developed in Metaphysics and Epistemology in Eastern and Western Philosophy. We approach historical aesthetics and ethics in the same way we treated metaphysics and epistemology. We are not concerned with outlining the differences between philosophers on these subjects, but rather finding a relational metaphilosophy capable of explaining their apparently divergent views (or in other words not how are they all wrong, but how they are all right). In this manner we hope to uncover the ontological structure of aesthetics and ethics in the context of the Relational Totality.In this previous work we posited Being and consciousness are essentially relational, with the relationality of consciousness manifesting itself as the power (what Lao Tzu refers to as the Te) to recognize and create relations in the world (what Heidegger calls the ready at hand). Philosophy was thus reinterpreted as the study of relationality. In contrast, conventional philosophy generally posits consciousness as the awareness of individual substances, and its world the sum total of these entities. In an abstract sense consciousness can also conceive of the Relational Totality, which is the totality of all potential and actual relations. Modes of the Relational Totality in Eastern philosophy include the Tao, Brahman, and Uji and in Western philosophy include the Apeiron, the Form of the Good, and Being. Eastern and Western metaphysics diverge in what is considered the ontical elements of this Relational Totality. Eastern philosophy models these elements as temporal relations, while in Western philosophy these are framed as the eternal relations between relations.In contrast with the truth values studied in epistemology, axiology is the branch of philosophy that studies quality values (or what we consider worthy). Axiology is conventionally divided into aesthetics and ethics. We analyze Eastern and Western philosophy to find commonalities in theories of value with regard to consciousness, which include:* The theory of an ill-defined higher form of ethics (Yājnavalkya, Chuang Tzu, Sri Aurobindo, Nietzsche)* The social / transactional nature of conventional ethics (Yājnavalkya, K'ung Fu Tzu, Socrates, Aristotle, Kant)* The dynamic and ineffable nature of the free aesthetic experience (Chuang Tzu, Kant, Sartre, Pirsig)* The basing of conventional ethics on the aesthetic experience (Nishitani, Nietzsche, Santayana).* The association of the free aesthetic experience with an altered sense of space and time (Dōgen, Black Elk, Nishitani, Nietzsche, Santayana, Sartre)* The translation of this freedom to action (Black Elk, Nishitani, Nietzsche, Sartre)We argue aesthetics is the higher form of ethics discussed by these philosophers. We posit conventional ethics is an objectified form of aesthetics simplified into theology, politics, and economics. We propose a temporal model for the aesthetic experience and draw parallels between our altered sense of space and time within the aesthetic experience and the concepts of space and time in physics. We then argue the modality inherent in this ontological structure of the aesthetic experience consists in the relation between ontical elements of the Relational Totality and the Relational Totality itself.This book is dedicated to my Mom and Dad, who taught me the value of free play; and to Sheila, Abigail, and Madelyn, who make life a great adventure! |
| eastern and western aesthetics: Body Consciousness Richard Shusterman, 2008-01-07 Contemporary culture increasingly suffers from problems of attention, over-stimulation, and stress, and a variety of personal and social discontents generated by deceptive body images. This book argues that improved body consciousness can relieve these problems and enhance one's knowledge, performance, and pleasure. The body is our basic medium of perception and action, but focused attention to its feelings and movements has long been criticised as a damaging distraction that also ethically corrupts through self-absorption. In Body Consciousness, Richard Shusterman refutes such charges by engaging the most influential twentieth-century somatic philosophers and incorporating insights from both Western and Asian disciplines of body-mind awareness. Rather than rehashing intractable ontological debates on the mind-body relation, Shusterman reorients study of this crucial nexus towards a more fruitful, pragmatic direction that reinforces important but neglected connections between philosophy of mind, ethics, politics, and the pervasive aesthetic dimensions of everyday life. |
| eastern and western aesthetics: Undoing Aesthetics Wolfgang Welsch, 1997 `The aestheticization of everyday life' has become a commonplace term, one which often merely scratches the surface of contemporary culture. This study illuminates the deeper dynamics of aesthetic reality from a philosophical perspective. Wolfgang Welsch, author of the influential Aesthetic Thinking, develops an important analysis of contemporary culture with philosophical bite. He examines global aestheticization phenomena, probes the relationship of aesthetics and ethics, and considers the broad relevance of aesthetics for contemporary thinking. He argues that modes of thought familiar from the aesthetic realm comprise fundamental paradigms for understanding today's reality. The implications for specific and every |
| eastern and western aesthetics: The Anthropology of Music Alan P. Merriam, Valerie Merriam, 1964-12-01 In this highly praised and seminal work, Alan Merriam demonstrates that music is a social behavior—one worthy and available to study through the methods of anthropology. In it, he convincingly argues that ethnomusicology, by definition, cannot separate the sound-analysis of music from its cultural context of people thinking, acting, and creating. The study begins with a review of the various approaches in ethnomusicology. He then suggests a useful and simple research model: ideas about music lead to behavior related to music and this behavior results in musical sound. He explains many aspects and outcomes of this model, and the methods and techniques he suggests are useful to anyone doing field work. Further chapters provide a cross-cultural round-up of concepts about music, physical and verbal behavior related to music, the role of the musician, and the learning and composing of music. The Anthropology of Music illuminates much of interest to musicologists but to social scientists in general as well. |
| eastern and western aesthetics: Beauty and Holiness James Alfred Martin, Jr., 2014-07-14 In this broad historical and critical overview based on a lifetime of scholarship, James Alfred Martin, Jr., examines the development of the concepts of beauty and holiness as employed in theories of aesthetics and of religion. The injunction in the Book of Psalms to worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness addressed a tradition that has comprehended holiness primarily in terms of ethical righteousness--a conception that has strongly influenced Western understandings of religion. As the author points out, however, the Greek forbears of Western thought, as well as many Eastern traditions, were and are more broadly concerned with the pursuit of beauty, truth, and goodness as ideals of human excellence, that is, with the holiness of beauty. In this work Martin describes a philosophical stance that should prove to be most productive for the dialogue between aesthetics and religion. Beginning with the treatment of beauty and holiness in Hebrew, Greek, and classical Christian thought, the author traces the emergence of modern theories of aesthetics and religion in the Enlightenment. He then outlines the role of aesthetics in the theories of religion proposed by Otto, Eliade, van der Leeuw, and Tillich, in the cultural anthropology of Geertz, and in the thought of Santayana, Dewey, Whitehead, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein. In a global context Martin explores the relation of aesthetic theory to religious thought in the traditions of India, China, and Japan and concludes with reflections on the viability of modern aesthetic and religious theory in the light of contemporary cultural and methodological pluralism. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. |
| eastern and western aesthetics: The Meeting of Eastern and Western Art Michael Sullivan, 1997 The exchange of art provides a vehicle for creative interaction between East and West, a process in which great civilizations preserve their own character while stimulating and enriching each other. Here scholar Michael Sullivan leads the reader through four centuries of exciting interaction between the artists of China and Japan and those of Western Europe. 24 color plates. 174 halftones. |
| eastern and western aesthetics: Body Aesthetics Sherri Irvin, 2016 This volume contains 16 original essays on the aesthetics of the body and bodily experience. Contributors in philosophy, sociology, dance, disability theory, race studies, feminist theory, medicine and law explore topics from beauty and sexual attractiveness to national identity and the somatic aesthetics of racialised police violence. |
| eastern and western aesthetics: The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art Arindam Chakrabarti, 2016-02-25 The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art provides an extensive research resource to the burgeoning field of Asian aesthetics. Featuring leading international scholars and teachers whose work defines the field, this unique volume reflects the very best scholarship in creative, analytic, and comparative philosophy. Beginning with a philosophical reconstruction of the classical rasa aesthetics, chapters range from the nature of art-emotions, tones of thinking, and aesthetic education to issues in film-theory and problems of the past versus present. As well as discussing indigenous versus foreign in aesthetic practices, this volume covers North and South Indian performance practices and theories, alongside recent and new themes including the Gandhian aesthetics of surrender and self-control and the aesthetics of touch in the light of the politics of untouchability. With such unparalleled and authoritative coverage, The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art represents a dynamic map of comparative cross-cultural aesthetics. Bringing together original philosophical research from renowned thinkers, it makes a major contribution to both Eastern and Western contemporary aesthetics. |
| eastern and western aesthetics: Orientalist Aesthetics Roger Benjamin, 2003-02-03 Lavishly illustrated with exotic images ranging from Renoir's forgotten Algerian oeuvre to the abstract vision of Matisse's Morocco and beyond, this book is the first history of Orientalist art during the period of high modernism. Roger Benjamin, drawing on a decade of research in untapped archives, introduces many unfamiliar paintings, posters, miniatures, and panoramas and discovers an art movement closely bound to French colonial expansion. Orientalist Aesthetics approaches the visual culture of exoticism by ranging across the decorative arts, colonial museums, traveling scholarships, and art criticism in the Salons of Paris and Algiers. Benjamin's rediscovery of the important Society of French Orientalist Painters provides a critical context for understanding a lush body of work, including that of indigenous Algerian artists never before discussed in English. The painter-critic Eugène Fromentin tackled the unfamiliar atmospheric conditions of the desert, Etienne Dinet sought a more truthful mode of ethnographic painting by converting to Islam, and Mohammed Racim melded the Persian miniature with Western perspective. Benjamin considers armchair Orientalists concocting dreams from studio bric-à-brac, naturalists who spent years living in the oases of the Sahara, and Fauve and Cubist travelers who transposed the discoveries of the Parisian Salons to create decors of indigenous figures and tropical plants. The network that linked these artists with writers and museum curators was influenced by a complex web of tourism, rapid travel across the Mediterranean, and the march of modernity into a colonized culture. Orientalist Aesthetics shows how colonial policy affected aesthetics, how Europeans visualized cultural difference, and how indigenous artists in turn manipulated Western visual languages. |
| eastern and western aesthetics: The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics Jerrold Levinson, 2003-04-03 The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics: The most comprehensive and authoritative guide available. |
| eastern and western aesthetics: Oriental Aesthetics Thomas Munro, 1965 |
| eastern and western aesthetics: The Shaping of Europe: Mapping East and West Pasquale De Marco, 2025-04-18 The Shaping of Europe: Mapping East and West takes readers on a captivating journey into the historical, cultural, and geopolitical intricacies of the East-West divide, offering a fresh perspective on this enduring global discourse. Through the lens of diverse topics spanning art, literature, religion, economics, and the environment, this book delves into the complex narratives that have shaped our understanding of the East and the West. It examines the impact of colonialism, imperialism, and the Cold War on this divide, revealing the ways in which these events have influenced stereotypes, fueled tensions, and shaped global power dynamics. With a focus on the dynamic interplay of power, identity, and cultural exchange, The Shaping of Europe: Mapping East and West challenges simplistic notions of East and West, unveiling the nuances and complexities that lie within these broad categories. It explores how cultural encounters, cross-fertilization of ideas, and the ongoing dialogue between Eastern and Western perspectives have influenced various realms of human experience. Moving beyond traditional boundaries, the book sheds light on the role of globalization, migration, and technological advancements in blurring traditional boundaries and fostering new connections between the East and the West. It examines the ways in which these forces are reshaping our understanding of cultural identity, economic interdependence, and environmental challenges. The Shaping of Europe: Mapping East and West invites readers to question traditional assumptions, embrace cultural diversity, and recognize the common threads that unite humanity across geographic and cultural boundaries. It offers valuable insights into the historical, cultural, and geopolitical forces that have shaped our world, inspiring a deeper understanding of the dynamics that continue to shape our present and future. Delving into the intricacies of the East-West divide, this book provides a comprehensive analysis that challenges conventional wisdom and offers a fresh perspective on this enduring global discourse. It is a must-read for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the complex relationship between East and West. If you like this book, write a review on google books! |
| eastern and western aesthetics: Aesthetic Revolutions and Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements Aleš Erjavec, 2015-05-08 This collection examines key aesthetic avant-garde art movements of the twentieth century and their relationships with revolutionary politics. The contributors distinguish aesthetic avant-gardes —whose artists aim to transform society and the ways of sensing the world through political means—from the artistic avant-gardes, which focus on transforming representation. Following the work of philosophers such as Friedrich Schiller and Jacques Rancière, the contributors argue that the aesthetic is inherently political and that aesthetic avant-garde art is essential for political revolution. In addition to analyzing Russian constructivsm, surrealism, and Situationist International, the contributors examine Italian futurism's model of integrating art with politics and life, the murals of revolutionary Mexico and Nicaragua, 1960s American art, and the Slovenian art collective NSK's construction of a fictional political state in the 1990s. Aesthetic Revolutions and Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements traces the common foundations and goals shared by these disparate arts communities and shows how their art worked towards effecting political and social change. Contributors. John E. Bowlt, Sascha Bru, David Craven, Aleš Erjavec, Tyrus Miller, Raymond Spiteri, Miško Šuvakovic |
| eastern and western aesthetics: Aesthetics and Marxism Kang Liu, 2000-03-10 Although Chinese Marxism—primarily represented by Maoism—is generally seen by Western intellectuals as monolithic, Liu Kang argues that its practices and projects are as diverse as those in Western Marxism, particularly in the area of aesthetics. In this comparative study of European and Chinese Marxist traditions, Liu reveals the extent to which Chinese Marxists incorporate ideas about aesthetics and culture in their theories and practices. In doing so, he constructs a wholly new understanding of Chinese Marxism. Far from being secondary considerations in Chinese Marxism, aesthetics and culture are in fact principal concerns. In this respect, such Marxists are similar to their Western counterparts, although Europeans have had little understanding of the Chinese experience. Liu traces the genealogy of aesthetic discourse in both modern China and the West since the era of classical German thought, showing where conceptual modifications and divergences have occurred in the two traditions. He examines the work of Mao Zedong, Lu Xun, Li Zehou, Qu Qiubai, and others in China, and from the West he discusses Kant, Schiller, Schopenhauer, and Marxist theorists including Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, and Marcuse. While stressing the diversity of Marxist positions within China as well as in the West, Liu explains how ideas of culture and aesthetics have offered a constructive vision for a postrevolutionary society and have affected a wide field of issues involving the problems of modernity. Forcefully argued and theoretically sophisticated, this book will appeal to students and scholars of contemporary Marxism, cultural studies, aesthetics, and modern Chinese culture, politics, and ideology. |
| eastern and western aesthetics: Organizational Theory and Aesthetic Philosophies Antonio Strati, 2018-12-12 Diverse philosophies constitute the theoretical ground of the study of the aesthetic side of organization. In fact, there is not a single unique philosophy behind the organizational research of the aesthetic dimension of organizational life. Organizational Theory and Aesthetic Philosophies will illustrate and discuss this complex phenomenon, and it will be dedicated to highlight the philosophical basis of the study of aesthetics, art and design in organization. The book distinguishes three principal philosophical sensibilities amongst these philosophies: aesthetic, hermeneutic and performative philosophical sensibility. Each of them is described and critically assessed through the work of philosophers, art theorists, sociologists and social scientists who represent its main protagonists. In this way, the reader will be conducted through the variety of philosophies that constitute a reference for aesthetics and design in organization. The architecture of the book is articulated in two parts in order to provide student and scholars in philosophical aesthetics, in art, in design and in organization studies with an informative and agile instrument for academic research and study. |
| eastern and western aesthetics: Aesthetics Hector Davidson, Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of beauty, art, and taste, and the creation and appreciation of beauty. It examines what makes something aesthetically pleasing or beautiful, and the principles underlying the judgments and experiences related to these concepts. Aesthetics addresses a wide range of questions: What is beauty? Can aesthetic value be objectively determined, or is it entirely subjective? What role do cultural and historical contexts play in shaping our perceptions of beauty and art? How do sensory experiences and emotions influence our aesthetic judgments? The field of aesthetics is deeply interdisciplinary, intersecting with art criticism, cultural studies, psychology, and even neuroscience, to understand how humans perceive and respond to aesthetic experiences. Aesthetic theory often involves the analysis of artworks, literature, music, and natural beauty, seeking to uncover the principles and criteria that govern aesthetic appreciation and creation. |
| eastern and western aesthetics: Nonaligned Modernism Bojana Videkanić, 2020-02-20 In less than half a century, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia successfully defeated Fascist occupation, fended off dominating pressures from the Eastern and Western blocs, built a modern society on the ashes of war, created its own form of socialism, and led the formation of the Nonaligned Movement. This country's principles and its continued battles, fought against all odds, provided the basis for dynamic and exceptional forms of art. Drawing on archival materials, postcolonial theory, and Eastern European socialist studies, Nonaligned Modernism chronicles the emergence of late modernist artistic practices in Yugoslavia from the end of the Second World War to the mid-1980s. Situating Yugoslav modernism within postcolonial artistic movements of the twentieth century, Bojana Videkanic explores how cultural workers collaborated with others from the Global South to create alternative artistic and cultural networks that countered Western hegemony. Videkanic focuses primarily on art exhibitions along with examples of international cultural exchange to demonstrate that nonaligned art wove together politics and aesthetics, and indigenous, Western, and global influences. An interdisciplinary book, Nonaligned Modernism highlights Yugoslavia's key role in the creation of a global modernist ethos and international postcolonial culture. |
| eastern and western aesthetics: Indian and Western Aesthetics in Sri Aurobindo’s Criticism, A Comparative Study Dr. Ujjwala Kakarla, 2017-07-21 The book Indian and Western Aesthetics in Sri Aurobindo’s Criticism is a comparative study of Indian and western aesthetics. It depicts the beauty of evolution of multiplicity of theories to vastness of concepts postulated by different literary theoreticians. Moreover, it gives a keen insight into Sri Aurobindo’s aesthetics. His criticism has given the complete synthesis of Indian poetic theories which have striking parallels to modern Western literary theories. He is one of the greatest literary critics who recovered the salient principles of ancient Indian aesthetics and their potentialities. His aesthetics accommodated many modern trends on the foundation of Indian culture that is going to be the mantra of new civilization. |
| eastern and western aesthetics: Smile of the Buddha Jacquelynn Baas, 2005 The relations between eastern and western cultures have long been a neglected topic, and this careful and intelligent look at a small but significant part of those relations is most welcome.--Thomas McEvilley, author of The Shape of Ancient Thought How wonderful that Jacquelynn Baas has seen the light of the Buddha's smile shining from faraway Asia into the realm of the art of modern times in what we think of as the West! . . . Her work reveals how some of our most influential artists explored and expressed the sophisticated perceptions and joyful energy emanating from the realm of Buddhist Asia.--Robert A. F. Thurman As a Buddhist scholar and artist I welcome this thoughtful and richly detailed study of how many aspects of Buddhism have stimulated, invigorated, and enriched Western arts over the past 150 years.--Stephen Addiss, author of The Art of Zen A crucial contribution to modern art studies, this high-spirited text surveys Western artists awakened by the wisdom of the East, from Monet and Duchamp to O'Keeffe to Martin. It is a thoughtful book about thoughtful artists, their values and their visions, with a lot to offer general readers and specialists alike.--Charles Stuckey, Associate Professor of Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
| eastern and western aesthetics: Eastern Westerns Stephen Teo, 2017-01-12 The western, one of Hollywood’s great film genres, has, surprisingly, enjoyed a revival recently in Asia and in other parts of the world, whilst at the same time declining in America. Although the western is often seen as an example of American cultural dominance, this book challenges this view. It considers the western from an Asian perspective, exploring why the rise of Asian westerns has come about, and examining how its aesthetics, styles and politics have evolved as a result. It analyses specific Asian Westerns as well as Westerns made elsewhere, including in Australia, Europe, and Hollywood, to demonstrate how these employ Asian philosophical and mythical ideas and value systems. The book concludes that the western is a genre which is truly global, and not one that that is purely intrinsic to America. |
| eastern and western aesthetics: Intercultural Aesthetics Antoon van den Braembussche, Heinz Kimmerle, Nicole Note, 2008-12-03 In this book the editors brought together outstanding articles concerning intercultural aesthetics. The concept ‘Intercultural aesthetics’ creates a home space for an artistic cross-fertilization between cultures, and for heterogeneity, but it is also firmly linked with the intercultural turn within Western and non-Western philosophy. The book is divided into two parts, yet one can sense a clear unity throughout the whole book. This unity is related to the underlying subject that the different authors, each in their own way and from their own background, try to reveal. They use related, and overlapping terms such as ‘the suchness of things’, ‘dancing and shaping lives’, ‘presenting a meaning beyond words, presenting the unpresentable, experiencing’, in order to bring to our awareness the genuine importance of the non-conceptual, next to the conceptual. Several authors moreover take on a reflective, and at times even a self-reflective stance, pointing to the intrinsic relation between cultural aesthetics and ethics, making this book unique in its kind. |
| eastern and western aesthetics: Orientalism Edward W. Said, 1995 Now reissued with a substantial new afterword, this highly acclaimed overview of Western attitudes towards the East has become one of the canonical texts of cultural studies. Very excitingâ¦his case is not merely persuasive, but conclusive. John Leonard in The New York Times His most important book, Orientalism established a new benchmark for discussion of the West's skewed view of the Arab and Islamic world.Simon Louvish in the New Statesman & Society âEdward Said speaks for interdisciplinarity as well as for monumental erudition¦The breadth of reading [is] astonishing. Fred Inglis in The Times Higher Education Supplement A stimulating, elegant yet pugnacious essay.Observer Exciting¦for anyone interested in the history and power of ideas.J.H. Plumb in The New York Times Book Review Beautifully patterned and passionately argued. Nicholas Richardson in the New Statesman & Society |
| eastern and western aesthetics: Philosophy of Knowledge and Metaphysics Hector Davidson, This book contains the following 17 titles: - Aesthetics - Analytic Philosophy - Epistemology - Hedonism - Idealism - Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Jean-Paul Sartre - John Rawls - John Stuart Mill - Liberalism - Metaphysics - Nihilism - Phenomenology - Pragmatism - René Descartes - Structuralism - Zeno Get this discounted bundle today! |
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