scholarly journals Officina: experiments in engaging with the arts

Modern Italy ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-214
Author(s):  
Francesca Billiani
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Organic Intellectual ◽  
The Aesthetic

This article is primarily concerned with interconnections between forms of impegno (political engagement) and aesthetic choices, as they were articulated in the literary and cultural journal Officina. In order to reassess the role of Officina within the Italian cultural and political debate of the day, this article considers two main narratives unfolding in the journal: the aesthetic rejection of Novecentismo, understood as the epitome of artistic autonomy, and the articulation of a form of Marxist impegno suitable for a neo-capitalist society and stemming from the class-based idea of the organic intellectual. Using published and unpublished correspondence, we argue that Officina had a pivotal role in producing a theoretical framework for the conceptualisation of a post-neorealist idea of Marxist critical analysis as well as of intellectual, aesthetic and political engagement.

Feminist Aesthetics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. W. Eaton
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Judgment ◽  
Male Gaze ◽  
Canon Formation ◽  
Artistic Production ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Female Nude ◽  
Inclusive Approach ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Feminist Aesthetics

This chapter summarizes central issues and themes in feminist philosophical aesthetics in the analytic tradition, although some continental figures are discussed. After introducing the interdisciplinary, intersectional and trans* inclusive approach that feminist aesthetics is starting to take, this essay discusses situatedness, artistic canon formation, humanism vs. gynocentrism, rewriting the philosophical canon, overcoming artworld biases, and the role of the aesthetic in systemic oppression. Specific topics to be discussed include the male gaze, the female nude, the concept of artistic genius, women’s artistic production, the purported universality of correct aesthetic judgment, the sex/gender distinction as it pertains to aesthetics and the arts, and body aesthetics.

scholarly journals Aesthetic Factor of Customer Perception and Its Role in Managing Company Competitiveness

2021 ◽  
pp. 193-200
Author(s):  
S. A. Afonsky
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Customer Perception ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Art Object ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Aesthetic Values ◽  
Made In

The article advances the idea about a drop in people interest in buying similar goods and services, especially in conditions of uncertainty, in particular corona-virus epidemic, when people care less about external things, such as their clothes for visiting public places. Today we observe the necessity in meeting aesthetic needs through different tools and artistic objects. Therefore, we can say that it is a certain return to those times, when in public places and even in the Underground you can see real works of art that were not made in a hurry, according to the principle ‘the cheaper the better', but those of full value. In spring 2021 we conducted a survey of students of the Russian Plekhanov University of Economics and the Arts College RGGU to find the role of the aesthetic (emotional, sensual) element - the art-object (in this case - a poster) - in conditions of uncertainty, i. e. COVID-19 epidemic. The findings of this research showed that aesthetic value of graphics takes a foreground, it should be connected with specialization of the trade enterprise, its historic and other factors. The author demonstrates that availability of aesthetic values can form a motivating platform for repeated visits to the store and thus shape its competitive advantage.

Smart Specialization Strategies and Universities

2019 ◽  
pp. 31-59
Author(s):  
Christophe Feder
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Discovery Process ◽  
Entrepreneurial Discovery ◽  
Biased Technological Change ◽  
Smart Specialization ◽  
The University

The smart specialization strategy is a cornerstone in the EU policy. The smart specialization policy and the entrepreneurial discovery process is formalized in order to generalize and implement the smart specialization concept. The main conclusion of the proposed theoretical framework is that the smart specialization strategy is efficient if it increases the productivity of the largest factor in the region. Starting from the biased technological change notion, the proposed theoretical framework shows the pivotal role of the university for the efficient implementation of the smart specialization strategy not only in the short and medium term but also in the long term.

A Cultural History of Memory in the Eighteenth Century

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Age Of Revolution ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Aesthetic

The Cultural History of Memory in the Eighteenth Century places in sharp relief the contrast between inspiring ideas that heralded an auspicious future and immemorial traditions that cherished a vanishing past. Waxing large during that era was the European Enlightenment, with its projects for reform and optimistic forecasts about the prospect of making a better world. Heritage was reframed, as martyrs for the cause of religious liberty and heroes for the promotion of the arts and sciences were enshrined in a new pantheon. They served as icons marking a pathway toward a presumed destiny, amid high hopes that reason would triumph over superstition to guide the course of human affairs. Such sentiments gave reformers a new sense of collective identity as an imagined community acting in the name of progress. Against this backdrop, this volume addresses a variety of themes in memory’s multi-faceted domain, among them mnemonic schemes in the transition from theist to scientific cosmologies; memory remodeled in the making of print culture; memory’s newfound resources for introspection; politics reimagined for the modern age; the nature of tradition reconceived; the aesthetics of nostalgia for an aristocracy clinging to a tenuous identity; the lure of far-away places; trauma in an age of revolution; and the emerging divide between history and collective memory. Along the way, contributors address such topics as the idea of nation in early modern politics; the aesthetic vision of Hubert Robert in his garden landscapes; the transforming effects of the interaction between mind and its mnemonic satellites in print media; Shakespeare remembered and commemorated; the role of memory in the redesign of historiography; the mediation of high and popular culture through literature; soul-searching in female autobiography; and commemorative practices during the French Revolution.

scholarly journals Dewey After the End of Art

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 146-169
Author(s):  
Roberta Dreon
Keyword(s):  
Summer School ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Theoretical Level ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Common ◽  
End Of Art ◽  
Art As Experience ◽  
The Aesthetic

This article explores the significance of Hegel’s aesthetic lectures for Dewey’s approach to the arts. Although over the last two decades some brilliant studies have been published on the “permanent deposit” of Hegel in Dewey’s mature thought, the aesthetic dimension of Dewey’s engagement with Hegel’s heritage has not yet been investigated. This inquiry will be developed on a theoretical level as well as on the basis of a recent discovery: in Dewey’s Correspondence traces have been found of a lecture on Hegel’s Aesthetics delivered in 1891 within a summer school run by a scholar close to the so-called St. Louis Hegelians. Dewey’s deep and long-standing acquaintance with Hegel’s Aesthetics supports the claim that in his mature book, Art as Experience, he originally appropriated some Hegelian insights. First, Dewey shared Hegel’s strong anti-dualistic and anti-autonomistic conception of the arts, resisting post-Kantian sirens that favored instead an interpretation of art as a separate realm from ordinary reality. Second, they basically converged on an idea of the arts as inherently social activities as well as crucial contributions to the shaping of cultures and civilizations, based on the proximity of the arts to the sensitive nature of man. Third, this article argues that an original re-consideration of Hegel’s thesis of the so-called “end of art” played a crucial role in the formulation of Dewey’s criticism of the arts and of the role of aesthetic experience in contemporary society. The author suggests that we read Dewey’s criticism of the removal of fine art “from the scope of the common or community life” (lw 10, 12) in light of Hegel’s insight that the experience of the arts as something with which believers or citizens can immediately identify belongs to an irretrievable past.

Sobre o Estético em Kierkegaard

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (45) ◽  
pp. 107-124
Author(s):  
Elisabete M. de Sousa ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Soren Kierkegaard ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Existential Philosophy ◽  
The Aesthetic

This article describes the state of the art of the issue of the aesthetic in the work and thought of Søren Kierkegaard. It does not aim at being an exhaustive analysis of the reception of the aesthetic. Instead, it is conceived in order to show the main misunderstandings that have sentenced the idea of the aesthetic to secondary roles in face of the ethical and the religious. In addition, it presents an update of a sample of the most recent works which already take the aesthetic as a key category, and it draws attention to what still lies ahead to be done, namely to study the philosophical and theoretical sources that inspired Kierkegaard in order to be able to define the philosophical role of the aesthetic, in particular its pivotal role in the Kierkegaard’s existential philosophy.

scholarly journals Balkan Is Beautiful: Balkanism in the Political Discourse of Tudman’s Croatia

2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 628-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maple Razsa ◽  
Nicole Lindstrom
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
Integral Role ◽  
A Site

This article examines the role of Balkanist discourse in Tudman’s Croatia. Todorova’s concept of Balkanism provides a useful theoretical framework through which to explore the deployment of Balkanist stereotypes against Croatia by Western leaders. Balkanism also illuminates the ways in which Croatians used many of these same Balkan stereotypes to differentiate themselves from their neighbors to the south and east. Through an examination of Croatian newspaper columns, government documents and speeches, and political cartoons from the 1990s, this article analyzes how Balkanist interpretations and representations played an integral role in the construction of Croatian national identity and the mobilization of Croatians around a variety of political agendas. The objective of this article is not, however, simply to document the deployment of Balkanist stereotypes against or within Croatia. The second component of the article suggests ways in which Croatia’s liminal position between “Europe” and the “Balkans” might serve as an ideal standpoint from which one might challenge the binary oppositions of Balkanism and begin to reimagine the Balkans, redirecting these categories as a site of political engagement and critique.

Nicolas Schöffer’s SCAM: An Aesthetic Perturbation in the Urban Field

Leonardo ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-61
Author(s):  
Susan Holden
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
European Society ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
World War ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Art And Architecture

In 1973 cybernetic artist Nicolas Schöffer drove his SCAM through the streets of Paris, passing by the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower, creating a curious urban spectacle and highlighting the confrontation between different concepts of urban monumentality that had been at stake in post-World War II European society. Part sculpture, part automobile, the SCAM utilized the cybernetic technique of feedback and Schöffer’s application of it in the aesthetic concept of perturbation, in which light, sound and movement effects were orchestrated to interrupt the increasingly rapid cycles of perceptual saturation that Schöffer associated with modern urban life. The following analysis considers Schöffer’s SCAM in relation to the development of the “space-time” concept in the arts and how the technology of cybernetics suggested a new kind of temporality that complicated the role of art and architecture in defining the urban realm. It also considers the appearance of the SCAM idea in Schöffer’s entry to the Plateau Beaubourg architectural competition and its significance as a counterpoint to the “new monumentality” of the completed Centre Pompidou.

scholarly journals L.S. Vygotsky’s Critique: Between Aesthetics, Publitsistika and Psychology

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 25-34
Author(s):  
P.N. Marques
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Educational Engagement ◽  
Critical Activity ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Formal School ◽  
Extensive List ◽  
Early Activity

This paper discusses L.S. Vygotsky’s early activity as a critic through an analysis of texts in which the author himself reflects on the task of the critic. Fragments from the essay on Hamlet, Psychology of art and theatrical reviews of the Gomel period (1922—23) are analyzed to provide an overview of how his understanding of the role of the critic has evolved and changed in time. By moving from the reader’s critique to the objective analytic method, Vygotsky has placed the critic in a position of social and educational engagement, a public figure committed to raise the level of the arts and the audience’s capacity optimize the aesthetic experience. His stance to the critical work is also analyzed within the context of Russian critical traditions, particularly some ideas of Boris Eikhenbaum and the Formal School of literary studies. Finally, the critical activity is seen alongside an extensive list of attributes that has been linked to Vygotsky (scientist, methodologist, philosopher etc.) as an equally important and complementary facet of a person fully committed to social transformation.

Moving Toward Emotions in the Aesthetic Experience

2021 ◽  
pp. 22-26
Author(s):  
Cinzia Di Dio ◽  
Vittorio Gallese
Keyword(s):  
Motor System ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Current Opinion ◽  
Complex Construction ◽  
The Aesthetic

In this chapter, the authors comment on their original review published in 2009 in Current Opinion in Neurobiology where, as they build a general theoretical framework that encompasses major empirical work in the field of neuroaesthetics since then, they also emphasize the role of the motor system and emotions in building an aesthetic experience. In this chapter, the authors extend their previous view with further empirical evidence, including from clinical and developmental psychology, thus supporting the idea that perception is not a mere “visual” copy of what is before our eyes, but the result of a complex construction whose outcome depends on the contribution of our body and its motor potential, our senses and emotions, imagination and memories. While the authors offer some food for thought for future research, they conclude by introducing a fairly recent line of study that explores the role of embodiment in architecture.

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