Aesthetics
Collection:
Mokslo publikacijos / Scientific publications
Document Type:
Knyga / Book
Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
Aesthetics
Publication Data:
Amsterdam ; Rodopi, 2007.
Pages:
xxix, 279 p
Series:
On the boundary of two worlds; 8
Contents:
Aesthetics: definition and object — Difficuties for aesthetics — Immediate aesthetics perception-the material basis of aesthetics — The Optimal starting point: nature or art? — Three starting points for aesthetics analysis — The Essential properties of aesthetics perception — The Internal structure of an aesthetic object — The Expressiveness of an aesthetic object and its objective sense — Aesthetic form and aesthetic structure — The Relations of natural and artistic beauty with respect to origin — The Aesthetic critertion of natural and artistic beauty is the same — The Conception of nature’s beauty in the history of European culture. The Beauty of wild nature — The Beauty of organic forms — Human beauty. Its ideal — Organic beauty and the sexual instinct — Beauty and ugliness. Their Relation in art — The Peculiarity of natural beauty — The Relation of primitive art to others areas of culture — Attempts to derive the origin of art form general psychological principles. Criticism — Stimuli for the emergence of representational art — The Origin of music — General conclusions — The Artist and the child (primitive man) — A General characterization of the creative process — The Creative process: three basic moments — Creative imagination — The Problem: formulation and explication — Taine’s “Milieu theory” and its critical appraisal — The Psychological theory of “numbing” and its critique — The Relation of the artist’s individual and creativity to the cultural environment — The Relation of the development of art to general cultural development — The Historical changing of styles and the theories explaining it — Introduction — Beauty and morality — Art (beauty) and truth — The Aesthetic of the ancient Greeks — Restricted access rationalist aesthetics in France and Germany — The Empiricist aesthetics of the English — The Aesthetics of Kant — Vico.German idealist aesthetics: Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer — The Formalists. Fechner — Contemporary aesthetic theories — The Problem — The Relation of the art work to the subject. Optical and acoustic impression: their difference — Spatial and nonspatial forms of art — Objective and nonobjective forms of art — Representational and nonrepresentational art — Notes — Index.
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9789004357990; 9789042022225
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