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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Dadejik, Ondrej. Aesthetic Dimension of Visual Culture. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2010 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ondřej Dadejík; Jakub Stejskal |
ISBN: | 9781443824323 1443824321 9781443824286 1443824283 9781282776807 1282776800 |
OCLC Number: | 830168232 |
Description: | 1 online resource (200 pages) |
Contents: | 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. |
Responsibility: | edited by Ondřej Dadejík and Jakub Stejskal. |
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"In the eighties some historians of art started to designate the object of their research to be the normatively neutral syntagm 'visual culture.' At that time philosophical aesthetics dwelled on issues far removed from the novel and exciting topics of visuality, the image and vision. If in the eyes of aestheticians, who increasingly focused on art as their main or even only topic, a 'weak' type of art started to replace the previous high art of modernism, then in the eyes of some visual theorists the absence of qualitative designations in their subject-matter was soon transformed from a privileged characteristic into an epistemological deficiency. Visual 'culture' helped bridge the abyss between the two realms-at the same time narrowing the gap between aesthetics and theories of visual culture. The present international collection takes the described situation as its starting point, thereby reflecting in an original, challenging and productive way upon a shared territory of aesthetics and of a crucial realm of contemporary culture."-Ales Erjavec, Research Director in the Institute of Philosophy, Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Fine Arts; Editor of Postmodernism and the Postsocialist Condition: Politicized Art under Late Socialism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003) Read more...

