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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Philosophical aesthetics"”.
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An Examination of Factors Contributing to Critical Thinking and Student Interest in an On-line College-level Art Criticism Course
… toward on-line courses in an undergraduate philosophical aesthetics and interpretation of art criticism course. The research conducted for this study suggests that constructivist problem-based learning does facilitate higher level thinking and increases student interest in art and in on-line …
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Being aesthetic after the American midcentury: Frank O'Hara, Barbara Guest, John Ashbery
… between first-generation New York poetry and philosophical aesthetics. Despite an increasing critical emphasis on the intellectual dimensions of New York School writing, its members are still regarded as the least philosophically-inclined of authors: Frank O’Hara’s famous description of lyric …
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The Uses of Reason in Critical Judgement: Commentaries on the Turner Prize
… Turner Prize shortlist exhibitions, I examine a philosophical problem which has put into question the rational basis for evaluation in art criticism: the lack of any agreed criteria for the evaluation of artworks. This problem has been most often addressed within philosophical aesthetics through …
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Utilité publique : architecture, urbanism, and aesthetic reform in turn of the century France
… forth the influence of contemporary theories of philosophical aesthetics, psychology, and pedagogy on these aesthetic reformers, I demonstrate how they concluded that architecture's social utility lay in its ability to improve the morality of the French public. The project argues that this …
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Playing Games with Art: The Cultural and Aesthetic Legitimation of Digital Games
… the sociology of art, and certain traditions in philosophical aesthetics, this dissertation proposes that art is constituted in a complex, historically-contingent assemblage made up of many diverse elements and sometimes called an “art world.” The legitimation of a cultural form as art is …
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On Rearing an Ugly Head: Joel-Peter Witkin and the Mysticism of the “Ugly Aesthetic”
… Godly. Through engaging in the problems in philosophical aesthetics, it contrasts the notions “aesthetically ugly” (a quality that cannot be objectively identified and studied because it ascribes aesthetic non-worth) with the “ugly aesthetic”, which refers to the “perceptive-felt” experience …
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The garden as art: a new space for the garden in contemporary aesthetics
… have enjoyed a chequered relationship with philosophical aesthetics. At different times, they have been both lauded and rejected as exemplars of art, and, for most of the last 150 or so years, they have been largely ignored. However, during the last 25 years, there has been a welcome …
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The Ends of a Line and the Passion of History
… whose theory of a ‘materialistic-dialectical aesthetics’ facilitates a reading of the poetic line-ending as engaged in ethical work. If the line-ending is a moment where verse form asks us to question what we have seen and what we know, then this element of verse form can unexpectedly serve as …