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Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Aesthetic attitude
there is such a thing as the aesthetic attitude, it resists definition; and third, the claim that the aesthetic attitudeis a myth. 3 Characterizing the aesthetic attitude A recognition of truth, beauty and goodness as the principal concerns of the human mind has given rise to the idea that the aesthetic attitude must be distinguished from, onthe one hand, cognitive attitudes, and on the other, practical ones. Whereas a cognitive attitude towards anobject is concerned with the acquisit...
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Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Aesthetic attitude
there are some features that everyone with normal eyes, ears and intelligence perceives - shape or loudness, forexample. But there are also features that are perceived only by people with a special sensitivity - balance or unity,for example. These latter people are the ones who have taste. If a vase is gracefully curved, either one sees thegracefulness or one does not. Sibley believes that this explains why aesthetic concepts are not condition-governed.That is, no list of non-aesthetic features...
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Architecture, aesthetics of
accounts of the geometrical discoveries of Plato and Pythagoras. He cites the latter's famous triangle theorem andadds, 'When Pythagoras discovered this fact, he had no doubt that the Muses had guided him… and it is said thathe very gratefully offered sacrifice' ( 1914: 253 ). AlthoughVitruvius is concerned with the practical applications of the theorem, mention of Pythagoras and the occult nature of his discovery expressed the common view thatperceptible forms are underwritten by an a...
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Pandore
Opera, par Voltaire
Etext by Horvallis
Ars Magna Lucis Umbrae - Aesthetics of the Baroque Age in France
http://arsmagnalucis.
Scène 1. PROMETHEE, CHOEUR ; PANDORE, dans l'enfoncement, couchée sur une estrade. PROMETHEE. Prodige de mes mains, charmes que j'ai fait naître, Je vous appelle en vain, vous ne m'entendez pas : Pandore, tu ne peux connaître Ni mon amour ni tes appas. Quoi ! j'ai formé ton coeur, et tu n'es pas sensible ! Tes beaux yeux ne peuvent me voir ! Un impitoyable pouvoir Oppose à tous mes voeux un obstacle invincible ; Ta beauté fait mon désespoir. Quoi ! toute la nature autour de toi respire...
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Baumgarten, Alexander Gottlieb
of the connection of the images and resemblance between images. Such wholes are simple or complex, but since complexity is understood as having many themes, not parts, simplicity is an aesthetic virtue. Perceptions and images (which are secondary perceptions) are confused representations because they are not abstract, intelligible forms, which alone would be conceptually distinct. But while they lack intensional clarity, they may have great extensional clarity, and may form thematic wholes based...
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Asmus, Valentin Ferdinandovich
Schelling, Fichte and Hegel. He argues that it was Kant who first grasped the significance of dialecticalcontradiction, though he mistakenly confined its influence to the realm of thought. Hegel, in contrast, correctlydiscerned that the development of being itself is dialectical, but his account is belied by his idealist metaphysics andteleological conception of history. It was Marx and Engels, Asmus argues, who identified the true empirical contentof Hegel's system and turned dialecti...
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Ästhetik - Philosophie.
Künstlers, den er als „artifex divinus”, als göttlichen Schöpfer beschreibt, der mittels seiner Phantasie neue Welten zu erschaffen in der Lage ist. Die ästhetische Diskussion des 17. Jahrhunderts wurde wesentlich durch die Querelle des anciens et des modernes bestimmt, in deren Rahmen das Verhältnis der neuen Literatur zu den Klassikern der griechischen Antike erörtert wurde. Während die Anciens den absoluten Vorbildcharakter der antiken Literatur behaupteten und in normativen Regelpoetiken...
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Beauty
preference as a socio-psychological phenomenon and as a variably rational or nonrational part of life. Generally, subjectivists in aesthetics, like those in ethics, retain the usual value terms but reinterpret them as avowing, expressing or soliciting preferences. In contrast, aesthetic realists seek to identify the property or state of affairs that beauty consists in and to explain how it can be known. Many issues are common to aesthetic realism and subjectivism. For instance: (1) What is the r...
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Burke, Edmund
The description of his writings as philosophical is further called into question by their occasional, polemical and often party-political character. However, these early mature writings - and a surviving notebook - reveal a pervasive sceptical epistemological position which is entirely consistent with, and arguably underpins his later political theory. In A Vindication of Natural Society Burke satirized the confident rationalism which the First Viscount Bolingbroke, in his posthumously publis...
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Modern Art
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American Gothic
American Gothic was painted by the 20th-century American artist Grant Wood in 1930.
while at the other side a woman in black appears to mourn the end of her participation in the dance. Click on the buttonsto learn more.© Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. In view of this diversity, it is difficult to define modern art in a way that includes all of 20th-century Western art. For some critics, the most important characteristic ofmodern art is its attempt to make painting and sculpture ends in themselves, thus distinguishing modernism from earlier forms of art that had con...
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Latin American Music
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Tito Puente Playing the Drums
Since the 1950s American drummer Tito Puente has popularized Latin American music, especially the mambo, in the
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Panpipe Music of BoliviaWell before the Spanish conquest, native peoples such as the Quechua and Aymara living in the Andes Mountains inBolivia, Peru, and Ecuador, developed a rich musical tradition. Panpipes (set of tuned pipes), made of ceramic, sugarcane,or bone were paired with shell trumpets, cane flutes, and drums, which accompanied dancers during religious and secularceremonies. Large ensembles of 4 to 20 panpipe players are still the norm, and Spanish influences have since beenintegrated...
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Artistic taste
objects of nature. Later he turns to the consideration of the exercise of taste in judgments of works of art,developing an elaborate theory of such judgments, but declaring that judgments of beauty made about works of artare inevitably 'impure', because the judge is implicitly aware that the the object was made . Kant's argument for the impurity of such judgments is elliptical. It turns on his conviction that a pure judgment of taste does not involve theapplication of a predicate conce...
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Artistic forgery
pieces, including pure music, where expressiveness is present in the absence of a narrated or depicted content.Whose emotions are expressed thereby and how are they expressed? 3 Arousal theory One suggested answer to the above question is that we ascribe emotions to art works just because those emotions are awakened in us. This is the theory of emotivism or arousalism. Two cases need to bedistinguished. In the first, the art work or some aspect of it is the emotional object of a response in...
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African Theater
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African Theater, traditional, historical, and contemporary dramatic forms in Africa south of the Sahara.
The period after World War II ended in 1945 led to the struggle for and achievement of independence in many African countries. The new nation-states were oftenestablished along colonial boundaries and power was handed over to a bourgeois class who had been educated in Europe. The epoch-making era of nationalismproduced a number of African playwrights who merged African theatrical traditions with European forms. These plays are still widely performed and read in many partsof the continent. Nigeri...
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African Theater
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INTRODUCTION
African Theater, traditional, historical, and contemporary dramatic forms in Africa south of the Sahara.
The period after World War II ended in 1945 led to the struggle for and achievement of independence in many African countries. The new nation-states were oftenestablished along colonial boundaries and power was handed over to a bourgeois class who had been educated in Europe. The epoch-making era of nationalismproduced a number of African playwrights who merged African theatrical traditions with European forms. These plays are still widely performed and read in many partsof the continent. Nigeri...