Aesthetic awareness in athletic performance

A considerable volume of research has explored spectators’ attraction to the aesthetic aspects of sport. However, considerably less attention has been devoted to an evaluation of the aesthetic dimension of sport from the performer’s perspective. This chapter hypothesizes that such evaluation can benefit athletic skill. It substantiates and elucidates some of the types of aesthetic experiences athletes may undergo and considers their potential use in sports. The chapter argues that athletes sometimes evaluate their actions by determining whether they have certain aesthetic quality, such as whether a movement embodies power or feels somehow just beautifully right. In bringing some of these ideas together it considers how an athlete’s aesthetic awareness of their own movements might be conducive to better practice and performance. This thesis is propaedeutic to future empirical work investigating the role of aesthetic self-evaluation in athletic performance.

Plastic surgery

This chapter evaluates plastic surgery, which is a constantly evolving surgical discipline based upon technical exactitude, detailed anatomical knowledge, and innovation. Plastic surgeons have strong aesthetic awareness, but the true scope of their practice is very much broader. The ethos of this work is to restore form and function. In pursuit of this goal, techniques have been refined that enable the transfer of tissues around the body as non-vascularised ‘grafts’, or vascularised ‘flaps’ that may be ‘pedicled’ on their anatomical blood supply, or revascularised after autologous transplantation by microvascular anastomosis. Globally, plastic surgeons collaborate with many specialties to enable oncological treatments and manage congenital abnormalities and trauma and severe soft tissue infections (SSTIs) across a broad range of conditions. In addition to this work, plastic surgeons have been involved in the development of composite tissue allotransplantation techniques that include facial, abdominal wall, and hand transplantation. The chapter then highlights some of the common reasons for referral to plastic surgery and describes some of the common plastic surgery techniques available to address these.

Old Father, Old Artificer: Female Sexuality and Male Authorship in Les Fleurs du mal and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

This paper examines the troubling relationship between the identity of the male artist and female sexuality during the rise of early modernism by comparing two literary works: Charles Baudelaire’s poetry collection Les Fleurs du mal and James Joyce’s novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Portraying prominent female characters as a means to define the authors’ own modern aesthetics, both Baudelaire and Joyce perceive underlying tensions between biological reproduction and artistic creativity, prompting them to explore in detail the relationships between gender, sexuality, and the production of literature. For Baudelaire, the male poet as flaneur derives voyeuristic pleasure from his imaginary lesbian narratives, and his aesthetic awareness of the self that emerges is contrasted with the “sterile” nature of female homosexuality. Joyce’s Stephen Dedalus in Portrait, on the other hand, adopts a more ambivalent relationship towards women: like Baudelaire’s speaker, Stephen usurps the generativity of women by replacing meaningful relations with imaginary ones, subsequently deriving literary inspiration; at the same time, however, these attempts bespeak deeper anxieties towards his inability to attain artistic autonomy, ultimately reflecting increasing vulnerabilities in the modern male artist’s perceptions of self-contained subjectivity. Published half a century apart, these two works marked critical junctures in the emergence of modernism, and a comparative approach thus allows us to trace shifting ideologies of modern personhood and gendered identity.

Realize Cultural Inheritance in Aesthetics A Probe into the Practice of Film & in Primary and Secondary Schools

As an important content of moral education and aesthetic education, film & television education in primary and secondary schools has just started, and thus is inevitably facing many problems. The film & television education in primary and secondary schools should center around the aesthetic characteristics of film & television education, focus on the cultural elements deeply embedded in the film and television works, and emphasize cultural inheritance in film & television education, thus improving youngsters’ cultural literacy, appreciation ability of film and television works and aesthetic awareness, and promoting their overall development.

Design thinking in printing graphic design approaches for animation films

Art of animation as an analysis of movement is based on the theory that the vision remains on the eye after the disappearance of the actual image, and this scientific theory is the same that the film industry was built upon. Recently, various techniques and ideas have entered the print design process as a means of expressing a phenomenon subject to the human will to change and elevate our aesthetic awareness and feelings, which rise in various forms of designs that reveal themselves in design work and are embodied in animation films. The design artwork falls within a group of intertwined elements fused with each other, reflecting the peculiarity of this work, as it is innovation and creating new and interesting things, so that the design is suitable for the desired purpose and beautifully. Perhaps the simplest type of optical illusion that can clarify to us the idea of the impression of the existence of an image that does not actually exist is represented in the decree paper. Key words: Design thinking, Typography, Animation films

Analog processes for digitally native students

When it comes to teaching communication design, educators today are not only faced with diverse pedagogical concerns and considerations, butalso the necessity to adapt their strategies during unusual times. Being technologically inclined and digitally native, new intakes of communication design students lack aesthetic awareness and sensitivity when it comes to designing for print. Growing up with social media and constant digital connectivity, students struggle to understand the relationship between communication, legibility, and usability of an analog, printed publication. Students are very comfortable in exploring design or manipulating graphic forms and text digitally, but when it comes to transcribing these onto non-scalable substrates, ie: paper, they struggle with legibility, hierarchy, size, and weight of the letterforms. To assist with teaching and learning, studio activities were designed to increase students’ functional, aesthetic, and formal awareness of printed text. Using a subject pool of 18 students, this qualitative research looks into the impact of 2 studio activities, to help 2nd-year communication design undergraduates slow down, and appreciate the optic qualities of letterforms and printed content.

Education and Research on Animation Creation Based on Northeast Regional Culture

With the rapid development of the Internet era, the way people get information is also changing. The way to obtain information becomes more convenient and efficient, so the effective utilization of mobile digital terminals can spread information more widely and quickly. Using animation as a medium to express cultural information through the Internet has become an important means of regional cultural communication. As creators and producers of animation determine the quality of animation, how to cultivate such talents has become an issue worth thinking deeply in the process of animation education. Therefore, this paper attempts to explore how to create animation based on the northeast regional culture and in line with the current social aesthetic awareness and development trend in the process of animation education and teaching.

Purposes of Arts Education

A range of arguments is used to justify the inclusion of the arts in schools’ curricula from different parts of the world, moreover, "the arts" can mean different things to different audiences. It is therefore useful to contextualize why and how arts education contributes to such things as social utility, personal growth, and aesthetic awareness. Arts education in many countries is being marginalized, and the cognitive value of arts education is being sidelined. By reinstating the arts in education as cognitively driven, culturally relevant, and progressive, an arts offering can be formed that aligns with, and advances, contemporary perspectives and practices in education.

Development of the Scale for Environmental Aesthetic Awareness and investigation of students' environmental aesthetic awareness

Although environmental aesthetic has received considerable attention in recent years, there is a need for measuring and evaluating environmental aesthetic. With considering this gap in the literature, the purpose of this study is to develop the “Scale for Environmental Aesthetic Awareness” for university students and to compare students’ levels of environmental aesthetic awareness according to gender, interest in art and the place where family lives. The study group is comprised of 969 university students. For conducting the validity study of the scale, the study group was randomly divided into two: Exploratory Factor Analysis group and Confirmatory Factor Analysis group. After the elimination of outliers, 329 students remained in the EFA group and 255 students in the CFA group. As a result of EFA, 27 items were gathered under three sub-dimensions. As a result of the first-order and second-order CFA, it was seen that the model-data fit was achieved and the three-factor structure of the scale and its general structure were confirmed. The Cronbach Alpha reliability coefficient of the first, second, third sub-dimensions were calculated respectively as .80, .71 and .71. The Cronbach alfa coefficient value for the whole scale was .82. Three-way variance analysis results showed that the effects of gender and the place where family lives were not found to be statistically significant while the effect of interest in art was found to be significant; thus, the mean of the students stating they were interested in arts was found to be higher.

Blurred lines: Practical and theoretical implications of a DAW-based pedagogy

Digital audio workstations (DAWs) occupy a prominent space in the creative arts. Songwriters, composers, producers, and audio engineers use a combination of software and virtual instruments to record and make music. Educators increasingly find DAWs useful for teaching concepts in signal flow, acoustics and sound synthesis, and to model analogue processes. As the creative industries shift to primarily software-based platforms, the identities, roles, and responsibilities of the participants intersect and blur. Similarly, networked technologies change the space and place of creative activity. Now, the ‘studio’ exists virtually anywhere. For educators working with students, these changing paradigms present a series of challenges. This article explores the DAW’s possibilities across three areas: space and place, theory and identity, and pedagogy. The article advocates for a less technocratic model of teaching and learning with DAWs in favour of an approach that cultivates a balance of aesthetic awareness and creativity.