scholarly journals Aesthetics of Tho­mas Newman’s Music to “Six Feet Under” TV Series

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 264-277
Author(s):  
Alexander V. Tavrizyan
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Aesthetic Theory ◽  
The Us ◽  
Baroque Art ◽  
Postmodern Art ◽  
Artistic Images ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Modern Mass

This article analyzes the aesthetics of modern Western audiovisual art by the example of the opening titles of “Six Feet Under” TV series (2001—2005). This titles sequence, as well as the series itself, were proclaimed as “cult art” and became widely influential in the US television culture. The visuals of the sequence had been created by a team of Digital Kitchen designers on the basis of music by Thomas Newman, who was a trend setter of the soundtrack genre in the 1990s—2010s. This work is of interest, being one of the most significant in modern mass culture, which allows to analyze the aesthetic trends within the postmodern audiovisual art in general. The research is based on R. Barthes’ method of analyzing objects of mass culture, in which the literal meaning of artistic ima­ges and the symbolic one (connotations, metaphors, allegories) are considered separately. T. Newman’s music is ana­lysed by using M. Chion’s view upon soundtrack as both musical work and acoustical image. The article analyzes the coherence between the music, the frame (literal) content of the video, and the connotative (symbolic) meaning of the visual images. The concept of “affect”, taken by the historians-poststructuralists G. Deleuze and F. Guattari from the aesthetic theory of Baroque art, is used to describe similar phenomena in postmodern art. Interviews, additional materials and other sour­ces that tell about the idea of the series’ creators and about its workflow expanded the source base of the study. The audiovisual composition’s analysis revealed the aesthetic techniques of artistic images’ affective (feelings-emotional) transmission, “counterpoint” of allegorical and realistic (naturalistic) images in the visuals and the music, central role of the pairs of images-antithesis (warmth/coldness, movement/static, life/death, and some others). The author concludes that the studied aesthetic model is similar, both in its content and in the form of expression, to the Baroque aesthetics in a modified postmodern form (Neo-Baroque).

scholarly journals The Influence Of Popular Culture On The Visual Music Album Cover

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-113
Author(s):  
Citra Kemala Putri
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Pop Art ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Cultural Symbols ◽  
Popular Art ◽  
Visual Music ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
The Aesthetic

Mass culture and popular culture is one of the important phenomena that was born after the postmodern era. In a society that lives in the midst of mass culture and popular culture, will grow consumer communities that produce new cultural symbols and activities. This discourse then influenced various aspects, for example, the emergence of popular music and popular art movements which soon became a commodities that was consumed by many youth people. This study discusses the influence of popular culture on the visuals of music album covers which take several album covers of international musicians from different time periods as samples to compare the similarities or friction caused by various art developments as their response toward happening trends. This study uses qualitative method. This study of various visual images was considering the aesthetic idioms of postmodernism, including Pastiche, Parody, Kitsch, Camp and Schizophrenia, as well as the concepts of several art movements, such as Pop Art and Lowbrow Art. The final result of this study reveal that several music albums using the Pop Art and Lowbrow Art style contained postmodern aesthetic idioms. Each album cover can contain one or several aesthetic idioms simultaneously.

An Honest Display of Fakery: Replicas and the Role of Museums

2016 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 241-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constantine Sandis
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Theory ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Museum Management ◽  
The Aesthetic

AbstractThis essay brings together questions from aesthetic theory and museum management. In particular, I relate a contextualist account of the value of copies to a pluralistic understanding of the purpose of museums. I begin by offering a new defence of the no longer fashionable view that the aesthetic (as opposed to the ethical, personal, monetary, historical, or other) value of artworks may be detached from questions regarding their provenance. My argument is partly based on a distinction between the process of creating a work of art and the artwork in question.Next, I defend a pluralism about the purpose of museums and their exhibitions. I combine this with a pluralist account of the value of replicas which falls out of the above argument, exposing our preference for originality as being frequently fetishistic. I maintain that the importance of the provenance of artworks is relative to the specific purposes of any given exhibition or museum. Those that are primarily educational (such as encyclopaedic ones) are in many cases best served with high-quality replicas. This view may be extended to artefacts that are not artworks, such as fossils and dinosaur skeletons. Finally, I expound the variety of roles that replicas may play in museums and relate these to notions of authenticity.

scholarly journals AESTHETIC GUEST EXPERIENCE IN RESTAURANT: A STATE-OF-THE-ART REVIEW

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzana Marković ◽  
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Jelena Dorčić ◽  
Dora Rašan ◽  
Bruna Bucić ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Aesthetic Theory ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Restaurant Managers ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality ◽  
Restaurant Experience ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Practical Implications

The concept of customer experience has received considerable attention in various disciplines, particularly in tourism and hospitality research. However, the aesthetic guest experience has hardly been investigated in previous studies. Aesthetics involves what makes an object beautiful and what people feel when they encounter a beautiful object. Dining experience encompasses almost all senses together, which makes it difficult to measure this concept properly. Considering the important role of aesthetics in the dining experience, this study provides a review and synthesis of the literature to establish a foundation for the conceptual framework for measuring the aesthetic guest experience in restaurants. The main objectives of this study are to categorise and summarise the research on aesthetic guest experience, present a new conceptualization and conceptual model of the aesthetic guest experience in restaurants, and highlight the emerging trends and gaps in the literature. The findings of this study contribute to aesthetic theory and offer practical implications for restaurant managers regarding all aesthetic components that should be considered when designing a memorable aesthetic restaurant experience.

scholarly journals Leo Tolstoy's moralizing in context of ethical and aesthetic synthesis

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (43) ◽  
pp. 257-263
Author(s):  
Svetlana A. Simonova ◽  
Tatiana V. Shvetsova ◽  
Marina A. Shtanko ◽  
Denis G. Bronnikov ◽  
Alexei A. Mikhailov
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Leo Tolstoy ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Aesthetic Theory ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Aesthetic Pleasure ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The One

The article examines the moralizing of Leo Tolstoy on the example of his theoretical ideas. The authors, examining their genesis, come to the conclusion that the writer formed his ideas under the influence of French enlighteners and sentimentalists, on the one hand, and absorbed the ethical dominant of Russian culture, on the other hand. The article analyzes the idea of absolutizing good, which runs through Tolstoy's entire aesthetic theory as a leitmotif. As a result of the study of the aesthetic views of the writer, it is concluded that Tolstoy understood the role of art solely as a translation of feelings and a means of communication. The writer deprives art of its aura of mystery and does not recognize the latter as a source of aesthetic pleasure and spiritual enrichment. The article analyzes the worldview of the writer, reveals the influence on him of the experience acquired by Tolstoy in childhood and adolescence. Tolstoy's works of art and theoretical views are another example of the fact that the artist's worldview does not always coincide with his work.

scholarly journals Representation of the soviet era in national comics

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (24) ◽  
pp. 185-192
Author(s):  
Tatiyana I. Erokhina ◽  
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Evgeni S. Zheltov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Functional Analysis ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Comic Books ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Comic Strips ◽  
Soviet Culture ◽  
Modern Mass ◽  
Controversial Nature

The article studies representation of the soviet era images in the national comics culture. Paying attention to the popularity and relevance of soviet culture in contemporary mass culture, the authors emphasize the controversial nature of showing the «Soviet past». Analyzing the peculiarities of representation, which is a polysemantic concept and can pursue different goals, the authors focus on the «spectacular» function of representation typical of modern mass culture. The article givess a thorough analysis of national comics in which the representation of the soviet era is most obvious; moreover, the comic strips creators claim it is a deliberate technique. The authors of the article note that the representation of the soviet era can be featured in the plot of a comic book, with references to historical events or historical chronotope of the soviet era. The soviet era can be represented in the system of recognizable characters with possible prototypes in soviet culture. National comic books, addressed to the russian reader, can actualize the visual images of the soviet era. Analyzing various techniques and ways of showing the Soviet era in comics, the authors offer a functional analysis of representation, noting that resorting to the soviet era can serve different purposes and have both positive and negative connotations. The article examines different functions of the soviet era representation connected both with nostalgic trends in society and with ironic perception of the soviet past.

The Aesthetic Foundations of Romantic Mythology: Karl Philipp Moritz

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander J. B. Hampton
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Theory ◽  
German Romanticism ◽  
Karl Philipp Moritz ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
The Aesthetic

AbstractLargely neglected today, the work of Karl Philipp Moritz was a highly influential source for Early German Romanticism. Moritz considered the form of myth as essential to the absolute nature of the divine subject. This defence was based upon his aesthetic theory, which held that beautiful art was “disinterested”, or complete in itself. For Moritz, Myth, like art, constitutes a totality providing an idiom free from restriction in the imitation of the divine. This examination offers a consideration of Moritz’s aesthetics and mythography, before turning briefly to consider his influence on the authors of Early German Romanticism. An understanding of the role of Moritz’s thought supports a number of recent claims (Frank, Beiser, Bowie) that challenge the conventional reading of Romanticism. At the same time it allows us to see Romanticism’s unconventional realist theological programme, permitting us to overcome the problematic secularising readings of the movement. I would like to thank Kurt Mueller-Vollmer (Stanford), as well as Fredrick Beiser (Syracuse) and Lars Fischer (Cambridge) for their help with this project.

scholarly journals Kazanga. Ethnicity in Africa between State and Tradition

Afrika Focus ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wim Van Binsbergen
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Key Words ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
The State ◽  
Court Culture ◽  
Expressive Culture ◽  
Modern Mass ◽  
The 19Th Century

The production of cultural forms at the interface between a rural-based tradition and the state is a familiar aspect of ethnicity in contemporary Africa. This paper seeks to identify some of the characteristics of thisprocess, whose products are too often misunderstood, and cherished, as 'authentic' forms of 'tradition'. Highlighting the role of ethnic brokers, of the modern mass media, and of a model of commoditifled 'performance ' as an aspect of contemporary electronic mass culture, the argument explores the production of expressive culture in the context of the Kazanga cultural association and its Kazanga annual festival among the Nkoya people of central western Zambia since the early 1980s, against the background of Nkoya ethnicity and Nkoya expressive and court culture since the 19th century. KEY WORDS: associations, brokers, commoditification, dance, ethnicity, festivals, music, Nkoya, state, Zambia 

scholarly journals NOT A REVOLUTION, BUT A MOVIE-REVOLT: THE MYSTERY OF TERRIBLE HOLLYWOOD ARTIFACTS IN BATTLES WITH CONSUMER IDEOLOGY

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-261
Author(s):  
S.A. Malenko
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Horror Film ◽  
The World ◽  
Revolutionary Movements ◽  
Psychoanalytic Interpretation ◽  
American Horror Film ◽  
Modern Mass ◽  
Typical Consumer

The article considers the problem of psychoanalytic interpretation of the role of ancient artifacts in the construction of a storyline of an American horror film. The author establishes a direct connection between the composition of a film and the transfer processes characteristic of unconscious forms of individual and social life. Artifacts, as a rule, demonstrate their vital nature in the process of communication with the philistine environment. This testifies to the actualization in the space of modern mass culture of the archaic need for personal human participation in the mythical re-creation of the world. Also, vitality is manifested in the destructive opposition of the ancient artifact to the typical consumer manipulations of a man in the street and is aimed at bridging the gap between man and the object environment created by him. The vitality of artifacts is one of the ways of unconscious objectification of intermediate results of the transfer, which is undertaken by the man in order to form his own explanatory model of the world. And the ideology of the American horror film is a postmodern simulacrum of social-revolutionary movements of past eras, the main purpose of which was to change the existing forms of political and socio-cultural communication.

scholarly journals Kitsch's casus in modern culture

2019 ◽  
pp. 27-29
Author(s):  
Galina Pavlovna Klimova ◽  
Viktor Petrovich Klimov
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Art History ◽  
Aesthetic Theory ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Modern Mass

The article discusses the phenomenon of kitsch in its modern functioning in modern mass culture. The authors reviewed modern scientific researches in aesthetic theory, art history, and cultural studies.

The Question of Subjectivity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nalini Bhushan ◽  
Jay L. Garfield
Keyword(s):  
Art Criticism ◽  
Aesthetic Theory ◽  
Nationalist Movement ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Indian Art

This chapter examines the role of art, art criticism and aesthetic theory in philosophy, culture, and the nationalist movement. It devotes particular attention to the modernization of classical rasa theory and its deployment in art criticism, and to debates about that in which “authentic” Indian art consists. It considers the art of Ravi Varma, Abanindranath Tagore, and Amrita Sher-Gil and the aesthetic theory of A. K. Coomaraswamy, K. C. Bhattacharyya, M. Hiriyanna, and Mulk Raj Anand.

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