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Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life
This book presents interdisciplinary research on the aesthetics of perfection and imperfection. Broadening this growing field, it connects the aesthetics of imperfection with issues in areas including philosophy, music, literature, urban environment, architecture, art theory, and cultural studies. The contributors to this volume argue that imperfection has value in being open and inclusive. The aesthetics of imperfection is typified by organic, unpolished production and the avoidance of perfect finish, instead representing living and natural change, and opposing the consumerist concern with the flawless and pristine. The chapters are divided into seven thematic sections. After the first sect...
Modernity in Crisis
A blend of political theory, social theory, and philosophy of culture, the book will show the relationship and tension between thought and action, politics and literature, power and dissent in modern politics and culture.
Gao Xingjian's Idea of Theatre
This book argues that Gao Xingjian's Idea of Theatre can only be explained by his broad knowledge and use of various Chinese and Western theatrical, literary, artistic and philosophical traditions. The author aims to show how Gao's theories of the theatre of anti-illusion, theatre of conscious convention, of the "poor theatre" and total theatre, of the neutral actor and the actor - jester - storyteller are derived from the Far Eastern tradition, and to what extent they have been inspired by 20th century Euro-American reformers of theatre such as Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Jerzy Grotowski and Tadeusz Kantor. Although Gao' s plays and theatre form the major subject, this volume also pays ample attention to his painting and passion for music as sources of his dramaturgical strategies.
Everydayness. Contemporary Aesthetic Approaches
The notion of everydayness is currently gaining momentum in scientific discourses, in both philosophical and applied aesthetics. This volume aims to shed light on some of the key issues that are involved in discussions about the aesthetics and the philosophy of everyday life, taking into account the field’s methodological background and intersections with cognate research areas, and providing examples of its contemporary application to specific case studies. The collection brings together twenty essays organised around four main thematic areas in the field of everyday aesthetics: (1) Environment, (2) The Body, (3) Art and Cultural Practices, and (4) Methodology. The covered topics include, but are not limited to, somaesthetics, aesthetic engagement, the performing arts, aesthetics of fashion and adornments, architecture, environmental and urban aesthetics. DOI: 10.13134/978-80-555-2778-9
(Un)masking Bruno Schulz
Whatever critical scalpel one selects for dissecting the literary works of Bruno Schulz (1892-1942), there will always be a certain degree of textual resistance which cannot be broken. Or in other words, taking off one of Schulz's many masks, one will probably never avoid the impression that a new mask has emerged. This book contributes to the three most typical critical strategies of reading Schulz's works (combinations, fragmentations, reintegrations) - being fully aware, of course, of the relativity of each particular approach. In addition, the book sets out to explore all of Schulz's creative output (i.e. his stories as well as his graphic, epistolary and even literary critical works), a...
Troubled Identity and the Modern World
The book maps what Leonidas Donskis terms 'the troubled identity', that is, the identity that constantly needs assurance and confirmation. Through an identity-building-and-shifting process, argues Donskis, we can move from political majority to cultural minority, or the other way around.
Estetyka chmur
Tymoteusz Andrearczyk Autor ukazuje różnorodność koncepcji filozoficznych, które poszerzają perspektywę pola estetycznego, włączając w nie obszary wykraczające poza tradycyjny model sztuki. Teatr angażujący widza w przedstawienie, instalacja, której stajemy się częścią, zjawiskowość chmur na niebie pokazują, jak można w inny sposób wartościować estetycznie, wyłamując się spod konwencjonalnych zasad oglądu. Znajdziemy tu namysł nad doświadczeniem zjawiska atmosferycznego, omawianego w tradycji pokantowskiej, Jean-François Lyotarda oraz Maurice’a Merleau-Ponty’ego, i nad wydobytym z tego doświadczenia obrazem chmur, dla którego podporą stała się teoria ...
Gry sztuki z architekturą
Książka, wpisująca się we wciąż aktualne w dobie „postmedializmu” dyskusje o rozmywaniu się granic sztuk, stawia pytanie o miejsce architektury w nowoczesnych systemach sztuk pięknych i we współczesnych definicjach sztuk wizualnych. Inspiracją do podjęcia tych rozważań stały się współczesne praktyki artystyczne, w których wyłania się wyraźnie nurt zainteresowania architekturą oraz sposobami architektonicznej reprezentacji. Współczesne integracje są ukazane na tle dawnych powinowactw, a zwłaszcza na tle osiemnastowiecznej krytyki doktryny ut pictura poesis,nowoczesnych systemów sztuk pięknych, często marginalizujących architekturę, dziewiętnastowiecznego p...
