The aesthetic dimension of visual culture [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Ondrej Dadejik and Jakub Stejskal

• Pubblicazione: Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (200 p.)
• Disciplina: 701.17
• Soggetto topico: Aesthetics; Art - Philosophy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: DadejikOndrej <1973-> StejskalJakub
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; IN DEFENCE OF SOCIOLOGY; NEUROAESTHETICS; ON BILDWISSENSCHAFT; PART II; AESTHETICS IN THE EXPANDED FIELD OF CULTURE; HIDDEN AESTHETICS IN REFERENTIAL IMAGES; WHY THE VERBAL MAY BE EXPERIENCED AS VISUAL; AESTHETICS BASED ON A PERCEPTUAL MODEL; HAPTIC VISUALITY AND NEUROSCIENCE; PART III; DANTO'S NARRATIVE NOTION OF HISTORY AND THE FUTURE OF ART; THE AESTHETIC DIMENSION OF ŽIŽEK'S CONCEPTION OF CINEMA; CAVELL ON FILM AND SCEPTICISM; PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES IN THE DIGITAL AGE; A CHANGE IN ESSENCE?; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: How can aesthetic enquiry contribute to the study of visual culture? There seems to be little doubt that aesthetic theory ought to be of interest to the study of visual culture. For one thing, aesthetic vocabulary has far from vanished from contemporary debates on the nature of our visual experiences and its various shapes, a fact especially pertinent where dissatisfaction with vulgar value relativism prevails. Besides, the very question-ubiquitous in the debates on visual culture-of what is ...
• Titolo autorizzato: The aesthetic dimension of visual culture
• ISBN: 1-282-77680-0; 9786612776809; 1-4438-2432-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464583903321
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