scholarly journals Concerning Some Marrano Threads in The Aesthetic Theory of Theodor W. Adorno

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
Jakub Górski
Keyword(s):  
Art Criticism ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Aesthetic Theory ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Jewish Thought ◽  
Universal Domain ◽  
Magnum Opus ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Relationship

This article is an attempt to re-read the magnum opus of Adorno’s philosophy, namely Aesthetic Theory, using an interpretative key offered by Agata Bielik-Robson’s book entitled Jewish Cryptotheologies of Late Modernity: Philosophical Marranos. This interpretative key, called by the Author The Marrano Strategy implemented to Adorno’s late philosophy allows us to investigate the common points of Adorno’s theory of art criticism and modern Jewish thought. Therefore the main question of this text concerns the characteristics of Jewishness and messianicity (Scholem, Derrida) in Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory. The thesis that I am attempting to justify is as follows: the implementation of Marrano strategy to the modern art criticism redefines and reverses the relationship between the particular element and the universal domain. Consequently, this dialectical ‘appreciation’ of the particular establishes a common conceptual field for critical thinking and traditional, religious motifs.

scholarly journals The identification method of 6-7 year-old-children’s «duovector» giftedness in the art-creativity process

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 326-335
Author(s):  
Larisa Yuryevna Kalinina ◽  
Dmitriy Victorovich Ivanov
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art Criticism ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Development And Validation ◽  
The Relationship

The paper deals with one of the aspects of early identification of giftedness: the establishment of the relationship between its types. The authors see a solution of the problem in the development and validation of the methodology based on the integrated modern scientific knowledge - psychological, pedagogical and art criticism, in the field of contemporary art. This technique is expected to meet the conditions of efficiency and accessibility in the application of teachers working with children. Clarifications have been made to the basic concept of giftedness for the paper. The authors propose a term describing the interrelated manifestation of two types of giftedness - duovector talent. The method is aimed at finding hidden signs of duovector giftedness: musical mathematics, in the field of fine art and sports, musical and linguistic. The basis of this approach is the idea of the dependence of the frequency and brightness of giftedness manifestations on the conditions, the most important of which is the aesthetic environment enriched with multi-modal material for creativity. At the same time, it is advisable to involve children in accessible and aesthetically valuable works of modern art, in the search for new knowledge in the same ways that adult authors of the XXI century use. Modeling directly perceived creative techniques and forms, the child masters the world, structures it non-linearly, on the principle of creating a rhizome. As a catalyst of creative activity, a set of tasks-subtests adapted to the age peculiarities of children is offered. The procedure of the experiment in a specially organized educational environment (an art workshop) is characterized. Plunging into the atmosphere of fruitful disorder, the child will act freely and directly, engaged in creativity as a game, creates an art product that has value as a marker of his talent. The content of creative tasks is presented, according to the results of work on which the diagnostic card is filled, in turn, which is the basis for the conclusions about the presence of the childs duovector talent. At this stage of the study, the authors have prepared a method for validation by comparing it with tests and subtests of other methods. The materials of the paper logically continue the research in the field of finding reference points for the development of individual educational routes of students, preparing them for lifelong learning.

Photography and the Perils of Automaticity: P. H. Emerson, Copyright, and the Agency of the Artist

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
JiHae Koo
Keyword(s):  
Copyright Law ◽  
Aesthetic Theory ◽  
Medium Specificity ◽  
Cultural Imaginary ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Artistic Medium ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Two Stages ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The photographer Peter Henry Emerson (1856–1936) is known today for the splash he made on the Victorian photographic scene in the 1880s with his bold refusal to follow his fellow art photographers (collectively known as the Pictorialists) in latching the new medium on to the aesthetic conventions of painting. His conventional position within art history is thus as a precursor to the Modernist conception of photography’s medium-specificity. Yet even if Emerson’s work was ahead of its time in its proto-Modernist refusal of painterly conventions, it also has qualities that place it more squarely within late-Victorian discourses. In particular, I argue, Emerson’s ongoing efforts to secure his photographs via copyright law need to be understood as reflective of a distinctly nineteenth-century cultural imaginary. This essay addresses the relationship between Emerson’s aesthetic theory and copyright law by dividing Emerson’s career into two stages, before and after 1891, this being the year in which Emerson abruptly disavowed photography as an artistic medium in his short pamphlet ‘The Death of Naturalistic Photography’. Examining two photography books – Pictures of East Anglian Life (1888) and On English Lagoons (1893) – alongside late-Victorian debates about photographic copyright, I show that Emerson’s earlier belief in photographic copyright’s ability to retain the integrity of an artist’s vision breaks down after 1891. He loses faith in the ‘copyrightability’ of photography in 1891 when he recognizes the mechanical nature – or automaticity – of the camera. That is, Emerson realizes that the photograph is never purely the product of the artist. In sum, this case study shows that by the 1890s, photographic copyright was becoming detached from the notion of creativity and thus could no longer be the guarantee of a photographer’s claim to artistic individuality.

Kant and the Common Law: Intersubjectivity in Aesthetic and Legal Judgment

2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 429-460
Author(s):  
Douglas E. Edlin
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
Aesthetic Judgment ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Aesthetic Theory ◽  
Objective Truth ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This article develops some conceptual correlations between Kant’s theory of aesthetic judgment and the common law tradition of legal judgment. The article argues that legal judgment, like aesthetic judgment, is best conceived in terms of intersubjective validity rather than objective truth. Understanding the parallel between aesthetic and legal judgment allows us to appreciate better the relationship between subjectivity and intersubjectivity, the individual and the community, in the formulation and communication of judgments, which combine a personal response and a reasoned determination intended for a discrete audience. The article frames and pursues these themes in relation to four core concepts in Kant’s aesthetic theory: judgment, communication, community, and disinterestedness. Through sustained comparison and application of these concepts in aesthetic judgment and legal judgment, the article provides a conception of judging that more accurately captures the common law role and relationship of the individual judge and the institutional judiciary as integral parts of the broader legal and political community.

scholarly journals THEORETICAL AESTHETICS OF L. TOLSTOY AS A MANIFEST OF ANTI-MODERNISM

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 805-811
Author(s):  
V.Yu. Darenskiy
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Consumer Society ◽  
Aesthetic Theory ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Main Components

The article is devoted to the interpretation of L. Tolstoy’s theoretical aesthetics as a part of the literary process - as a kind of “manifesto” directed against the emerging modernism (anti-traditionalism). The main components of L. Tolstoy’s aesthetic theory, which are interpreted as worldview principles that most effectively oppose the “death of art” (V. Weidle) in the “postmodern situation” and anti-artistic requirements of the “consumer society”, are considered. The aesthetic concept of L. Tolstoy is interpreted as a strategy to combat the imposition of perverted tastes and immorality in art. The main components of this theory and their interrelation are allocated. L. Tolstoy's aesthetics is considered as an important value basis of modern art education.

scholarly journals The Geological Present: A Critique of the Aesthetic Anthropocene

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Lachlan Gregory Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Aesthetic Theory ◽  
Art World ◽  
Art Making ◽  
Critical Methodology ◽  
Art Works ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

<p>This thesis is a response to an emergent discourse on the relationship between the visual arts and the Anthropocene. The latter—the stratigraphic designation for a new geological epoch—has accrued a popularity within the contemporary art-world that is rarely afforded to a concept from the earth sciences. The uptake in Anthropocene-themed exhibitions, publications, and think-pieces reflects the concept’s promise of an art-making and art-critical methodology that may foster a revised relationship to nature in the age of climate change.   Despite the new-found fashionability of the term, this relationship between art and the Anthropocene has neither been comprehensively demonstrated, nor disproved. Consequently, the purpose of this thesis is to undertake this necessary interrogation.   Firstly, this is an engagement with the competing philosophies and intentions that have attached themselves to the Anthropocene label as it progressed from a straightforward geological statement, into a profound suite of assertions regarding the relationship of humanity to our planet. The influence of the posthumanist ecological philosopher, Timothy Morton, is a particular focus for understanding what the aesthetic theory of the Anthropocene consists of. Taken together, this theory is a promise of a new relationship with the natural world through the jettisoning of Romantic fantasies of nature in favour of an engagement with a sub-discursive, material world.   Secondly, this theory is read against ecologically conscious contemporary art works. The practices of Pierre Huyghe, Simon Starling, and Conor Clarke speak to the same concerns as the aesthetic Anthropocene. Reading these works through the lens offered by the stratigraphic concept investigates and tests the capability of the aesthetic Anthropocene for delivering its promises of an art without nature, and a new engagement with our environments.   Ultimately, the innovations of the aesthetic Anthropocene are novel, plentiful, but unconvincing. As a theory, it is beset by flaws and contradictions which undermine its applicability and critical potential. Consequently, ecologically conscious art does little to reflect the aims and aspirations of the aesthetic Anthropocene, rendering it an unhelpful tool for understanding the geological present.</p>

Kunsten at pille et løg:

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-23
Author(s):  
Kasper Daugaard ◽  
Amalie Ørum
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Aesthetic Theory ◽  
Artistic Work ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract To peel an onion, to grate a carrot, and to set a table, each has its own choreographic recipe. Culinary art/ cookery is choreographed everyday life, and cooking is a dance everyone knows. The Art of Peeling an Onion is based on the dance piece Gæst (Guest), choreographed by Kasper Daugaard. The piece is for five dancers, a female soloist and four choir dancers, and originates entirely from culinary actions. The purpose of the article is not to maintain theory and practice as two separate entities, but to show how they supply each other and offer each other content. We aim to create a balanced understanding of the relationship between the creative process, the audience experience, and the aesthetic theory related to both the content and the outcome of artistic work. We view theory and practice hand in hand, because we have strived to put into words that which can be experienced, to verbalise the spectator’s experiences, the physical as well as reflexive, with the ambition of formulating a quite tangible experience-based aesthetics.

scholarly journals The Geological Present: A Critique of the Aesthetic Anthropocene

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Lachlan Gregory Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Aesthetic Theory ◽  
Art World ◽  
Art Making ◽  
Critical Methodology ◽  
Art Works ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

<p>This thesis is a response to an emergent discourse on the relationship between the visual arts and the Anthropocene. The latter—the stratigraphic designation for a new geological epoch—has accrued a popularity within the contemporary art-world that is rarely afforded to a concept from the earth sciences. The uptake in Anthropocene-themed exhibitions, publications, and think-pieces reflects the concept’s promise of an art-making and art-critical methodology that may foster a revised relationship to nature in the age of climate change.   Despite the new-found fashionability of the term, this relationship between art and the Anthropocene has neither been comprehensively demonstrated, nor disproved. Consequently, the purpose of this thesis is to undertake this necessary interrogation.   Firstly, this is an engagement with the competing philosophies and intentions that have attached themselves to the Anthropocene label as it progressed from a straightforward geological statement, into a profound suite of assertions regarding the relationship of humanity to our planet. The influence of the posthumanist ecological philosopher, Timothy Morton, is a particular focus for understanding what the aesthetic theory of the Anthropocene consists of. Taken together, this theory is a promise of a new relationship with the natural world through the jettisoning of Romantic fantasies of nature in favour of an engagement with a sub-discursive, material world.   Secondly, this theory is read against ecologically conscious contemporary art works. The practices of Pierre Huyghe, Simon Starling, and Conor Clarke speak to the same concerns as the aesthetic Anthropocene. Reading these works through the lens offered by the stratigraphic concept investigates and tests the capability of the aesthetic Anthropocene for delivering its promises of an art without nature, and a new engagement with our environments.   Ultimately, the innovations of the aesthetic Anthropocene are novel, plentiful, but unconvincing. As a theory, it is beset by flaws and contradictions which undermine its applicability and critical potential. Consequently, ecologically conscious art does little to reflect the aims and aspirations of the aesthetic Anthropocene, rendering it an unhelpful tool for understanding the geological present.</p>

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.

scholarly journals Art History and Other Stories

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (38) ◽  
pp. 197-217
Author(s):  
Luiza Esper Berthoud
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Art Criticism ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Art Appreciation ◽  
Art Making ◽  
The Relationship

Through the analysis of one erroneous piece of art criticism, an essay by Goethe that re-imagines a lost ancient sculpture, I demonstrate the difficulty that the discipline of art history has with conceptualizing the experience of art making and how one ought to respond to it. I re-examine the relationship between art making and art appreciation informed by ideas such as the Aristotelian view of Poiesis, Iris Murdoch’s praise of art in an unreligious age, and Giorgio Agamben’s call for the unity between poetry and philosophy. I also argue that much of modern art criticism has forgotten Arts’ earlier conceptual vocation, and propose methods of appreciating art that are in themselves artistic.

scholarly journals Dialektita Estetika Seni Rupa Kontemporer Bali Melalui Karya Upadana dan Valasara

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-73
Author(s):  
I Gede Arya Sucitra
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Art Criticism ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Creation ◽  
The Aesthetic

Penelitian ini membahas estetika karya seni yang tergelar dalam pameran seni rupaSensuous Objects melalui pendekatan kritik seni rupa. Dua perupa asal Bali yangdikaji merupakan perupa yang berkembang pada era seni rupa kontemporer melaluipenciptaan karya melalui spirit lokalitas Bali dengan pendekatan postmodern.Karya yang dihasilkan transmedia dan dengan cita rasa lokal-global. Pendekatankritik seni melalui empat tahapan analisisnya serta tiga pertimbangan penilaian yangakan menempatkan materi tulisan ini untuk berbincang, berdialog dengan karyaseni serta senimannya, sehingga akan ditemukan terjadinya proses transformasiestetis meliputi tema, gaya, fungsi, makna, hingga konsep berkeseniannya. Kritikseni rupa modern pada dasarnya adalah perbincangan mengenai seni (rupa), “artcriticism talks about art”. Tujuan dari kritik seni adalah pemahaman (understanding),supaya orang memperoleh informasi dan pemahaman yang berkaitan dengan mutusuatu karya seni. Dengan demikian, melalui kritik seni ini pembacaan terhadapkarya dua perupa Bali ini akan menemukan muaranya pada pemaparan karakterkarya dan konsepsi seni yang dihasilkannya. Penulis mengklasifikasikan karya seniperupa Sensuous Objects ke dalam tiga struktur media penciptaan, yakni media duadimensional, tiga dimensional, dan seni instalasi. Berbicara tentang karya seni akantidak utuh jika tidak menyinggung ihwal yang menyangkut medium karena hanyalewat medium itulah, karya seni itu akan memperoleh wujudnya yang konkretlahiriah. Aesthetic Dialectics of Balinese Contemporary Arts through Upadana andValasara’s Artworks. This article examines the aesthetic reading of artworks in an artexhibition called “Sensuous Objects” using an art criticism approach. Two artists fromBali are examined as growing artists in the era of contemporary art through the creationof works in the spirit of locality with a postmodern approach in Bali. The resulting workis the trans-media and the local-global flavor. An approach to art criticism throughthe four stages of analysis and assessment of three considerations will put this writingmaterial in the context of conversation, dialogue with the artwork and the artist, so thereis an aesthetic transformation process including the theme, style, function, meaning, andthe concept of art. Critics of modern art basically talk about art (visual), “art criticismtalks about art”. The purpose of art criticism is to understand that people acquireinformation and understanding pertinent to the quality of artwork. Thus, throughthe reading of artworks, two Balinese artists find out the exposure to the character andconception of artworks produced. The author classifies the artwork of artists calledSensuous Objects into three structures of media creation such as the two-dimensionalmedia, three-dimensional media, and installation art. Speaking of the artwork will not be complete if it does not mention particulars related to the media because only throughthat medium, works of art will acquire its concrete-outward form.

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