Situated Aesthetics: Art Beyond the Skin

Beholding: Situated Art and the Aestheti

📁 Beholding: Situated Art and the Aesthetics of Reception

✍ Ken Wilder 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 Bloomsbury Visual Arts 🌐 English

Beholding considers the spatially situated encounter between artwork and spectator. It argues that artworks created for specific places or conditions structure a reciprocal encounter, which is completed by the presence of a beholder. These are works which demand the 'beholder's share', but not, as E

Beholding: Situated Art and the Aestheti

📁 Beholding: Situated Art and the Aesthetics of Reception

✍ Ken Wilder 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 Bloomsbury Visual Arts 🌐 English

Beholding considers the spatially situated encounter between artwork and spectator. It argues that artworks created for specific places or conditions structure a reciprocal encounter, which is completed by the presence of a beholder. These are works which demand the 'beholder's share', but not, as E

Beholding: Situated Art and the Aestheti

📁 Beholding: Situated Art and the Aesthetics of Reception

✍ Ken Wilder 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 Bloomsbury Visual Arts 🌐 English

Beholding considers the spatially situated encounter between artwork and spectator. It argues that artworks created for specific places or conditions structure a reciprocal encounter, which is completed by the presence of a beholder. These are works which demand the ‘beholder’s share’, but not, as E

Beyond Aesthetics: Art and the Technolog

📁 Beyond Aesthetics: Art and the Technologies of Enchantment

✍ Christopher Pinney, Nicholas Thomas 📂 Library 📅 2001 🌐 English

The anthropology of art is currently at a crossroads. Although well versed in the meaning of art in small-scale tribal societies, anthropologists are still wrestling with the question of how to interpret art in a complex, post-colonial environment. Alfred Gell recently confronted this problem in his

Beyond Aesthetics: Art and the Technolog

📁 Beyond Aesthetics: Art and the Technologies of Enchantment

✍ Christopher Pinney, Nicholas Thomas 📂 Library 📅 2001 🌐 English

The anthropology of art is currently at a crossroads. Although well versed in the meaning of art in small-scale tribal societies, anthropologists are still wrestling with the question of how to interpret art in a complex, post-colonial environment. Alfred Gell recently confronted this problem in his

Natural Beauty: A Theory of Aesthetics B

📁 Natural Beauty: A Theory of Aesthetics Beyond the Arts

✍ Ronald Moore 📂 Library 📅 2007 🏛 Broadview Press 🌐 English

Natural Beauty was selected for the Choice Outstanding Academic Title list for 2008! Natural Beauty presents a bold new philosophical account of the principles involved in making aesthetic judgments about natural objects. It surveys historical