New Directions in Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts

2007 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-100
Author(s):  
B. Gaut
Keyword(s):  
The Arts ◽  
New Directions

scholarly journals Michael O’Brien’s Theological Aesthetics

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 451
Author(s):  
Rebekah Lamb
Keyword(s):  
Primary Source ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Theological Aesthetics ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Devotional Art ◽  
The Arts ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Extensive Collection ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Contemporary Artists

This essay introduces and examines aspects of the theological aesthetics of contemporary Canadian artist, Michael D. O’Brien (1948–). It also considers how his philosophy of the arts informs understandings of the Catholic imagination. In so doing, it focuses on his view that prayer is the primary source of imaginative expression, allowing the artist to operate from a position of humble receptivity to the transcendent. O’Brien studies is a nascent field, owing much of its development in recent years to the pioneering work of Clemens Cavallin. Apart from Cavallin, few scholars have focused on O’Brien’s extensive collection of paintings (principally because the first catalogue of his art was only published in 2019). Instead, they have worked on his prodigious output of novels and essays. In prioritising O’Brien’s paintings, this study will assess the relationship between his theological reflections on the Catholic imagination and art practice. By focusing on the interface between theory and practice in O’Brien’s art, this article shows that conversations about the philosophy of the Catholic imagination benefit from attending to the inner standing points of contemporary artists who see in the arts a place where faith and praxis meet. In certain instances, I will include images of O’Brien’s devotional art to further illustrate his contemplative, Christ-centred approach to aesthetics. Overall, this study offers new directions in O’Brien studies and scholarship on the philosophy of the Catholic imagination.

Case Study: Art and business for European identity: Illustrating meaningful evolutions in business through classical masterpieces of music

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 588-592
Author(s):  
Cheryl Kerr ◽  
Lotte Darso
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Leading Edge ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Process Innovations ◽  
The Arts ◽  
New Directions ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Product And Process

We end this special issue with a case study (Darsø 2004) of how Miha Pogacnik, virtuoso violinist and cultural ambassador of Slovenia, works to inspire and engage artful behaviour. Miha's interpretations of musical masterpieces illuminate universal human archetypes, which are profoundly meaningful to individuals as well as to organisations.Music reaches of all the arts the most, the deepest into our experience.Miha PogacnikAt a time when pressures for change are at their highest, from globalisation, new technologies, product and process innovations, successful business leaders need to be at their creative best just to survive. Creativity is the hallmark of art, and artists are increasingly a source of inspiration for entrepreneurs world-wide.Miha Pogacnik's unique contribution stems from this new consciousness, the need for creativity, imagination and perfection in business. Time after time, his input in countless business conferences has been magnificent, unexpected and unique. Through music and art, Miha Pogacnik ignites a new force in us, the power of rising above our old selves in perceiving problems and opportunities in an entirely new light, and thus striking in new directions. Miha is truly at the leading edge of business as we move towards the 21st century.Marcello Palazzi, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Progressio Foundation Rotterdam, Netherlands (Balough 1996)Miha Pogacnik saw the potential of Art & Business long before anyone else and has worked in the field for more than 20 years. Today Miha Pogacnik uses his violin to decompose and play classical masterpieces when doing his presentations around the world as a business consultant with, among others, ABN AMRO Bank, General Electric, JP Morgan, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft, LEGO, Mitsubishi, Nike, Nokia, Novartis, Procter & Gamble, Shell, Volvo, World Bank, World Economic Forum, and many more.

Pre-Raphaelite Poetry

2020 ◽  
pp. 553-567
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Helsinger
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Modern Poetry ◽  
William Morris ◽  
Dante Gabriel Rossetti ◽  
The Past ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
The Arts ◽  
New Directions

Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris in the early stages of their careers sought to turn modern poetry in new directions by reinterpreting both the body and the spirit of the arts practised in Europe and Britain before Raphael. Four things marked their encounter with the past. First, both went directly to primary sources. Second, they began by making their own translations, verbal or visual; the act of translating brought to consciousness the particularities of both past and present. Third, both moved from translation to pastiche and invention, finding new ways to use the past to create in the present the shock of the new. And finally, these activities were shared projects, fired by the exchange of work and ideas among a circle of family, friends, and fellow artists and poets.

The Responsibility to Understand

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore George
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Current Interest ◽  
Contemporary Philosophy ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Arts ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Colonial Theory ◽  
Political Solidarity

Few topics have received broader attention within contemporary philosophy than that of responsibility. Current interest in such questions of responsibility draw on a broad range of approaches and methods, from those customarily associated with analytic philosophy to those associated with phenomenology and existentialism, deconstruction, critical theory, feminist theory, race theory, and post-colonial theory. Yet, despite the expanse of current interest, philosophers have not fully appreciated the contributions that can be made to questions of responsibility by contemporary hermeneutics. Based on an examination of issues in contemporary hermeneutics, The Responsibility to Understand makes a novel case for a distinctive experience of responsibility at stake in understanding and interpretation and argues for the significance of this hermeneutical responsibility in the context of our relations with things, animals, and others, as well as of political solidarity and the formation of political solidarities through the arts, literature, and translation. The Responsibility to Understand thus pushes current debate in hermeneutics and continental Ethics in groundbreaking new directions.

‘All the arts of a radical agitation’: transnational perspectives on British and Irish landowners and estates, 1800–1921*

2018 ◽  
Vol 91 (254) ◽  
pp. 705-722 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annie Tindley
Keyword(s):  
Social Position ◽  
The Arts ◽  
New Directions

Abstract This article examines the perceptions and responses of landed elites towards their evolving territorial, political and social position and interrogates the ways in which these differed across Britain, Ireland and the empire. It considers the utility of a transnational framework in understandings of the landed classes, defining this as a development in which historians seek to take subjects out of national frameworks and into wider settings, to challenge notions of national exceptionalism. It explores its potential to open new directions in the study of landed families and estates during a period of challenge and argues that as a fundamentally transnational class, landed and aristocratic elites must be contextualized beyond the nation.

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