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American Aesthetics
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Author : Walter B. Gulick
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2020-05-01
American Aesthetics written by Walter B. Gulick and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-01 with Philosophy categories.
Although there are distinctly American artists—Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Grandma Moses, Thomas Hart Benton, and Andy Warhol, for example—very little attention has been devoted to formulating any distinctively American characteristics of aesthetic judgment and practice. This volume takes a step in this direction, presenting an introductory essay on the possibility of such a distinctly American tradition, and a collection of essays exploring particular examples from a variety of angles. Some of the essays in this collection extend pragmatist and process insights about the important place aesthetics has in molding and assessing experience. Other essays examine the place of American aesthetics in relation to such particular forms of art as painting, literature, music, and film. Three essays attend to the aesthetic aspects of a flourishing life. In each of the essays, American aesthetics is understood to arise out of deeply felt personal, historical, and cultural backgrounds. Consequently, not only are such relatively abstract notions as harmony, fit, elegance, proportion, and the like involved in aesthetic judgment, but also religious, political, and social factors become embroiled in aesthetic discernment. Thus the ongoing pattern of American aesthetics is shown to be distinguishable from such other varieties of aesthetic thought as analytic aesthetics, New Criticism, and postmodern approaches to aesthetics.
American Aesthetic Theory 1908 1917
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Author : Virginia McCord Mecklenburg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
American Aesthetic Theory 1908 1917 written by Virginia McCord Mecklenburg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Aesthetics, American categories.
American Aesthetic Theory
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Author : Virginia McCord Mecklenburg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
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The Sense Of Beauty
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Author : George Santayana
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-07-25
The Sense Of Beauty written by George Santayana and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-25 with Social Science categories.
From antiquity to the present, many have written on the subject of beauty, but precious few have done so with the capacity themselves to write beautifully. The Sense of Beauty is that rare exception. This remarkable early work of the great American philosopher, George Santayana, features a quality of prose that is as wondrous as what he had to say. Indeed, his summation remains a flawless classical statement. "Beauty seems to be the clearest manifestation of perfection, and the best evidence of its possibility. If perfection is, as it should be, the ultimate justification of being, we may understand the ground of the moral dignity of beauty. Be'auty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good." The editor of this new edition, John McGormick, reminds us that The Sense of Beauty is the first work in aesthetics written in the United States. Santayana was versed in the history of his subject, from Plato and Aristotle to Schopenhauer and Taine in the nineteenth century. Santayana took as his task a complete rethinking of the idea that beauty is embedded in objects. Rather beauty is an emotion, a value, and a sense of the good. In this, aesthetics was unlike ethics: not a correction of evil or pursuit of the virtuous. Rather it is a pleasure that resides in the sense of self. The work is divided into chapters on the materials of beauty, form and expression. A good many of Santayana's later works are presaged by this early effort. And this volume also anticipates the development of art as a movement as well as a value apart from other aspects of life. The work is written without posturing, without hectoring. Santayana is nonetheless able to give expression to strong views. His preferences are made perfectly plain. Perhaps the key is a powerful belief that beauty is an adornment not a material necessity. But that does mean art is trivial. Quite the contrary, the good life is precisely the extent to which such "adornments" as painting, poetry or music come to define the lives of individuals and civilizations alike. This is, in short, a major work that can still inform and move us a century after its first composition.
One True Theory The Quest For An American Aesthetic
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Author : Martha Banta
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2007-01-01
One True Theory The Quest For An American Aesthetic written by Martha Banta and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Martha Banta reaches across several disciplines to investigate America's early quest to shape an aesthetic equal to the nation's belief in its cultural worth. Marked by an unusually wide-ranging sweep, the book focuses on three major "testing grounds" where nineteenth-century Americans responded to Ralph Waldo Emerson's call to embrace "everything" in order to uncover the theoretical principles underlying "the idea of creation." The interactions of those who rose to this urgent challenge?artists, architects, writers, politicians, and the technocrats of scientific inquiry?brought about an engrossing tangle of achievements and failures. The first section of the book traces efforts to advance the status of the arts in the face of the aspersion that America lacked an Art Soul as deep as Europe's. Following that is a hard look at heated political debates over how to embellish the architecture of Washington, D.C., with the icons of cherished republican ideals. The concluding section probes novels in which artists' lives are portrayed and aesthetic principles tested.
One True Theory The Quest For An American Aesthetic
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
One True Theory The Quest For An American Aesthetic written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Aesthetics, American categories.
Publisher description: "Counter Martha Banta reaches across several disciplines to investigate America's early quest to shape an aesthetic equal to the nation's belief in its cultural worth. Marked by an unusually wide-ranging sweep, the book focuses on three major "testing grounds" where nineteenth-century Americans responded to Ralph Waldo Emerson's call to embrace "everything" in order to uncover the theoretical principles underlying "the idea of creation." The interactions of those who rose to this urgent challenge artists, architects, writers, politicians, and the technocrats of scientific inquiry brought about an engrossing tangle of achievements and failures. The first section of the book traces efforts to advance the status of the arts in the face of the aspersion that America lacked an Art Soul as deep as Europe's. Following that is a hard look at heated political debates over how to embellish the architecture of Washington, D.C., with the icons of cherished republican ideals. The concluding section probes novels in which artists' lives are portrayed and aesthetic principles tested." (http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0833/2007012623-d.html).
Radical Beauty
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Author : Clemens Spahr
language : en
Publisher: Brill Schoningh
Release Date : 2011
Radical Beauty written by Clemens Spahr and has been published by Brill Schoningh this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Aesthetics, Modern categories.
"Radical Beauty is concerned with the literary aesthetics of the American Transcendentalists. Drawing on the aesthetic theories of Theodor W. Adorno and Ernst Bloch, the book argues that the Transcendentalists' writings show a Romantic utopian desire to perfect both the individual and society. The Transcendentalists believed that in the aesthetic experience the individual becomes aware of a utopian vision of perfection that implies the creation of an aesthetic state, a state that conforms to humanity's needs rather than exploiting individuals for economic purposes. Bringing together previously marginalized figures and canonical authors, the book shows that the Transcendentalists, acting out their aesthetics in the sociocultural landscape of nineteenth-century New England, tackled many of the problems that their European predecessors left unresolved. In linking aesthetic theory and social criticism, Radical Beauty explores a new facet of American Transcendentalism."--Publisher's description.
The Sense Of Beauty Being The Outlines Of Aesthetic Theory
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Author : George Santayana
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-08-01
The Sense Of Beauty Being The Outlines Of Aesthetic Theory written by George Santayana and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-01 with Fiction categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory" by George Santayana. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Sense Of Beauty Being The Outline Of Aesthetic Theory
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Author : George Santayana
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-11-01
The Sense Of Beauty Being The Outline Of Aesthetic Theory written by George Santayana and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-01 with Art categories.
George Santayana is remembered mostly by his theory of aesthetics, which is discussed in detail "The Sense of Beauty or Aesthetics." Santanyana's aesthetic theory is basically subjective, or "psychological," and if viewed from a contemporary standpoint, somewhat at odds with current developments in neuroscience, but closer than most schools of Western philosophy. All philosophical theories of aesthetics are interesting to investigate from the standpoint of comparing them to what is said about the human aesthetic faculty in modern research in neuroscience. As in ethics, Santayana approaches aesthetics in three different ways, namely as the exercise of the aesthetic faculty, the history of art, and the psychological. The first two do not concern the author in "The Sense of Beauty or Aesthetics." Hhis attention devoted entirely to the third. His intention is to remove himself from the influence of the poets and of Plato, and find the out how ideals are formed in the mind, how objects may be compared with them, what properties are shared in beautiful things, and the process by which humans become sensitive to beauty and in turn value it. George Santanyana is after a definition of beauty that explains its origin in human experience, and one that explains the human capacity to be sensible of beauty and the relation between a beautiful object and its ability to excite the human senses.
Aesthetic Theory Abstract Art And Lawrence Carroll
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Author : David Carrier
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-09-06
Aesthetic Theory Abstract Art And Lawrence Carroll written by David Carrier and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-06 with Philosophy categories.
Boldly developing the central traditions of American modernist abstraction, Lawrence Carroll's paintings engage with a fundamental issue of aesthetic theory, the nature of the medium of painting, in highly original, frequently extraordinarily successful ways. Aesthetic Theory, Abstract Art, and Lawrence Carroll explains how he understands the medium of painting; shows what his art says about the identity of painting as an art; discusses the place of his paintings in the development of abstraction; and, finally, offers an interpretation of his art. The first monograph devoted to him, this philosophical commentary employs the resources of analytic aesthetics. Art historians trace the development of art, explaining how what came earlier yields to what comes later. Taking for granted that the artifacts they describe are artworks, art historians place them within the history of art. Philosophical art writers define art, explain why it has a history and identify its meaning. Pursuing that goal, Aesthetic Theory, Abstract Art, and Lawrence Carroll roams freely across art history, focused at some points on the story of old master painting and sometimes on the history of modernism, but looking also to contemporary art, in order to provide the fullest possible philosophical perspective on Carroll's work.