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Aesthetics : Social and Cultural Anthropology
1,073 words, approx. 4 pages We can identify two issues which are important with respect to anthropology’s approach to aesthetics in non-Western societies: firstly, are we obliged to consider the anthropology of *art and the anthropology of aesthetics as inseparable? We are...
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Aesthetics : Philosophy Terms
786 words, approx. 3 pages . Also called philosophy of art. Roughly, that branch of philosophy concerned with the creation, value and experience of art and the analysis and solution of problems relating to these. The primary topic is the appreciation of art, and major problems...
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From The Aesthetic To The Sensual : Social and Cultural Anthropology
443 words, approx. 2 pages Lévi-Strauss has been described as sensitive, dignified and reserved, someone who has always privileged rigorousness in his professional life, and no doubt striven, as a result, to maintain a certain distance from events, people and facts. In...
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Aesthetic : British Education Terminology
77 words, approx. 1 pages A term increasingly used in discussions of a balanced curriculum to indicate those subjects or areas of experience by means of which a pupil is introduced to the world of beauty (e.g. art, music, literature). The basis for this distinction dates back...
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Aesthetics Information
10,163 words, approx. 34 pages
 Aesthetics is the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste. Aesthetics is a subdiscipline of axiology, a branch of philosophy, and is closely associated with the philosophy of...




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 The New York Observer
The Bearden-Noguchi Aesthetic: Transcends Constraints of 'Otherness'
1/16/2005: 908 words, approx. 3 pages Whose idea was it to host concurrent retrospectives of Romare Bearden and Isamu Noguchi at the Whitney Museum of American Art? It was a brilliant stroke, really. Noguchi's streamlined, abstract sculptures distill experience by expunging it of clutter; Bearden's collaged portrayals of farmers, jazz musicians...
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 The New York Observer
What Are the Rules? Glimcher Exhibition Stated Aesthetic
4/10/2005: 678 words, approx. 2 pages The exhibition called Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-Based Art, organized by Marc Glimcher for the PaceWildenstein Galleries, has come and gone, but it has left in its wake an encyclopedic catalog that's likely to remain a standard work of reference for a long time....
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 The New York Observer
A Group Show Figures Out Aesthetics of Human Form
8/14/2005: 1,027 words, approx. 3 pages Abstract painters like to bitch and moan about their lot in life. Abstract art, they complain, was once the standard-bearer of high culture, but now it’s just another item on display in the dizzying contemporary art bazaar. Still, I’m not so sure figurative painters don’t...
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 The New York Observer
A Shared Aesthetic and Goal Raising the Bar at Sideshow
4/17/2005: 1,053 words, approx. 4 pages Raising the Bar is the title of a show at Sideshow Gallery in Williamsburg, and it's been irking me to no end. What on earth can it mean? I know it's a sports analogy-something about setting new standards and posing new challenges. But please explain...


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