Concepts in aesthetics

Susan Buck-Morss creates in her essay the concept of anaesthetics, explaining what it is, how it is created and showing some examples in which it can be productive. Her paper is also a dialogue with Benjamin’s “The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction”, trying to go further than him on his own arguments and giving his article a stronger ground of reality. In fact, the article rejects a pure discussion about ideas to enter the fields of cultural history and politics. In order to define anaesthetics, Buck-Morss creates a powerful and bold notion of aesthetics, going pretty far from its current general meaning. Buck-Morss recuperates aesthetics etymological meaning to define the concept as the “sensory experience of perception” (6).…

What is it that distinguished and ordinary bag of rubbish from a major work of art that just looks like a bag of rubbish? Can anything be art- and if so,what makes it art? In response to the question and my knowledge question the thing that distinguishes ordinary bag of rubbish from major work of Art is “label”, expression, perception, interpretation, language and aesthetics through which we start to realize the beauty of art. No, anything can 't be art because something to be called art or…

This paper reviews the concepts of Aesthetic philosophers and how their theories developed new standards of Aesthetics from the Classical Greek Era, to the Modern Era. The first section of this text describes the philosophers perspectives of Aesthetics during each era, an explanation as to what the philosophers concepts mean, and a possible example or reference to modern society. The second section of this text compares and contrasts the philosophers that have been discussed in this text. …

Aesthetic Attitude According to the thinkers who deals with the subjective approach to the problems of aesthetics, aesthetic experience deals with our attitude or how we make-up our mental consciousness to suit ourselves. According to these thinkers, the object that we see it is not considered to be aesthetic but it is the attitude in which we perceive it and the capacity to make a dedicated observation which enables the mind to obtain these aesthetic experiences that matters. Jerome Stolnitz,…

When considering the theoretical baselines of this module, I decided to look within myself, and consider what in my life embodies these ideas and concepts. Put mildly, I am a dance music fanatic. I perform regularly in Exeter as a DJ and when sifting through my record collection, I came across a record that really speaks to me personally, and in many ways, has a universal allure. The record was released on a German record label named Innervisions, and is called Acamar, written by a duo called…

Aesthetics have come to have a different meaning to me since I first enrolled in the class. I have come to think of the advancements we have made on the topic mind-blowing. I think every philosophy we have looked at has held a truth. Schiller says it is nature that equipped man with the ability to move from what is real to what is not. Nature provided man with two senses to help them create; sight and hearing. Once someone can enjoy sight he is aesthetically free. The power of sight gives…

the essay “The Trouble with (the Term) Art”, Carolyn Dean questions about the universal definition of “art”, and examines “the consequences of identifying art in societies where such a concept did or does not exist” (p. 26). As the title of the article suggests, the term “art” provokes many discussions and questions. Although we have known the term “art” probably since we are in kindergarten, many of us neglect the profoundness of this simple term. Dean starts off by pointing out that “art” is…

It has often observed of Baudelaire’s poem that it reveals an extraordinary fusion of classical permanence and an intimate, Romantic contingent--- believes that every nation and every age possesses and must possess, its own beauty. Baudelaire analyses these various and varying manifestation of Beauty into two separate elements—the eternal and the transitory. It may be argued, he showed no great originality( the idea implicates in Stendhal), but in going a step further and asserting that without…

collectively, is what any company of players is tasked with from the playwright and the director. I believe my approach is more connected to Aristotle’s view of aesthetics and catharsis; I personally seek a purge of emotion. Aesthetics and beauty are a topic much debated by philosophers, artists, and critics. My standards of judgment of aesthetics is a combination of many philosophies and ideals, but is uniquely my own. What is aesthetically pleasing? What is beautiful? In Critique of…

What Danto thinks about art is illustrated by Duchamp, who created art with the very intent of removing an aesthetic value from it. Duchamp did so in an attempt to demonstrate how art goes far beyond aesthetic. Duchamp art validates Danto’s notion that art is an aesthetic process, but an intellectual process, of which meaning and cognitive thought is deeply embedded within. What Danto thinks about art is supported by Duchamp’s art, which is categorized as art despite the fact that it is not…