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Showing 1 to 20 of 105 for “"aesthetic experience"”.
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Educating the self through aesthetic experience
… and purpose of education by recognizing the aesthetic dimension. Through deepening Deweyan aesthetic theory with D.W. Winnicott’s ideas on the self, I am addressing a crucial gap in educational literature pertaining to the constitutive role of aesthetics in the growth and development of the …
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Aesthetic experience and action in participatory art.
… this study is to explore the diverse ways that aesthetic experience is tested by participatory art. The study will show the part played by participatory action in changing the conditions in which aesthetic experience arises. It will be confirmed that when the philosophy of action is taken into …
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The influence of environmental discontinuities on aesthetic experience
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan Sate University. Dept. of Park and Recreation Resources, 1974
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The Aesthetic Experience of Video Games: A Pluralistic Approach
… a serious philosophic application of several aesthetic theories to the emerging medium of video games. I look at concepts such as the play of art, psychical distancing, and an experience, and apply each of these to a representative video game. Hence, I use a variety of aesthetic works, but …
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Aesthetic experience, novelty and consciousness in the comprehension of metaphors
… cognition, emotions, consciousness, beauty and aesthetic experience. The thesis argues that the interpretation of metaphor relies heavily on organism-environment interactions in the sense that bodily states create an experience which helps interpretation. Equally important, the experience …
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Cultural Aesthetic Experience: Perceptions of Learning Developed through Cultural Immersion
This study explored the role of cultural aesthetic expressions (often also referred to in this study as cultural arts) play in perceptions of learning while individuals are in the ongoing process of being immersed in a non-native culture. This inquiry focused specifically on the narratives of seven …
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Materiality as the Basis for the Aesthetic Experience in Contemporary Art
… of the nature of being. The Kantian idea of the “aesthetic experience” is the point of departure, tracing philosophical discourse of how art functions via its materiality through the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre and Jacques Maritain to the post-modern …
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Materiality as the Basis for the Aesthetic Experience in Contemporary Art
… of the nature of being. The Kantian idea of the “aesthetic experience” is the point of departure, tracing philosophical discourse of how art functions via its materiality through the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre and Jacques Maritain to the post-modern …
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Paintings and their irreducibility to explanation : myth and multiform aesthetic experience
… in word and image would, or could, express my experience of post-war Bosnia in 1999. In light of the limitations identified with such an approach during the course of this study, the thesis became an analysis of the ways in which we explain art, focussing upon aspects of mythic explanation in …
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"Modes Of Aesthetic Experience In The ""ballet De Cour,"" 1581-1650"
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Kinaesthetic impulses : aesthetic experience, bodily knowledge, and pedagogical practices in Germany, 1871-1918
… studies a moment of transition in German aesthetics in the late nineteenth century. Starting in the 1870s, groups of artists, architects, historians, critics, connoisseurs, and museum officials in Germany declared that traditional aesthetics, which had operated "from above" with …
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Reframing Aesthetic Experience: the Influence of Racial Bias, Openness, and Cognition on Painting Perception
… whether executive functioning, openness to experience and implicit and explicit racial bias influence painting judgements. Black and White adults (aged 30+) and young adults (aged 18-29) evaluated paintings by Black and White artists and responded to items on like, comfort, valence, and …
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The role of the rostral prefrontal cortex in the context of the aesthetic experience
… and cognitive processes that lead to an aesthetic judgement or an aesthetic emotion (e.g. beauty). Aesthetic experiences are multisensory processes that undergo a variety of stages. Early processes occur in the visual and sensory cortices, and are central to object identification that may …
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Seeing as aesthetic experience and creative action : visual practices with shape grammars in design education
… have come to override what we might call the "aesthetic experience" - that is, an experience in which all the senses are highly engaged, not only the mind. It has become unpopular and perhaps even politically incorrect to talk about what we feel, like, or respond to viscerally - discussions of …
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From Anaesthetic to Aesthetic in the Clinic: An Arts, Practice-Based Inquiry into Everyday Aesthetic Experience for Healthcare Practitioners
… of life and death. Practitioners can be moved in aesthetic ways. The capacity for, and attention to, personal lived aesthetic experience is easily suppressed in clinical practice where the objective evidence base has primacy. Aesthetic experience has been linked with values in different …
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AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE AND BECOMING GOOD: AN EXAMINATION OF THE CONNECTION BETWEEN AESTHETICS AND ETHICS IN PLATO, KANT, AND IRIS MURDOCH
… dissertation, I examine the connection between aesthetic experience and morality. I specifically focus on the work of Plato, Kant, and Iris Murdoch, who all share the thesis that aesthetic experience has an ineluctable moral component, which enables it to play various roles in moral education …
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‘Le Moyen de lire eux-mêmes’: Self-understanding and the Aesthetic Experience of reading in Proust’s A la Recherche du temps perdu
This thesis discusses the aesthetic experience of reading in Proust’s A la Recherche du temps perdu, with a special emphasis on the Narrator’s proposition that a literary work may enable its readers to become ’les propres lecteurs d’eux-memes’ (RTFIV, 610). This view prompts two crucial questions …
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YOU'RE THERE IN THE TIME SLIP: A HERMENEUTIC EXPLORATION OF AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE IN MUSICKING THROUGH THE LENS OF MIHALYI CSIKZENTMIHALYI'S FLOW STATE THEORY
… is to provide a detailed description of the aesthetic experience as it is encountered in music, and, in so doing, to develop an operational definition of aesthetic experience as it is understood and experienced by practitioners in relation to the phenomenon as it is found in the canon of …
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Teaching for Aesthetic Experience: A Dual Case Study of the Mediating Influence of Curriculum and Pedagogy on Students' Experiences Visiting an Art Museum
… to the enduring curiosity about art and aesthetic experience as essentially human endeavors by investigating the potentially educative value of aesthetic experience for young people. It also aims to contribute to the efforts of scholars, such as Elliot Eisner, who seek to understand the …
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Intense Singularities: Dieter Roth's and Henning Christiansen's Processual Aesthetics
… the potential flux and indeterminacy within an aesthetic experience, with a particular focus on the works of Dieter Roth and Henning Christiansen. This study looks at the desires, forces, and energies that are at work in the aesthetic experience, and further, aims to evoke the nature of the …
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