Aesthetic Composition Research Articles

ECOS DA MINHA ALMA CRIVADA DE RAÇAS

O trabalho tem como objeto de estudo o poema Improviso do Mal da América (Fevereiro de 1928), de Mário de Andrade. Diante desse poema abordaremos a questão da construção da identidade brasileira. O poema apresenta essa busca fatigada por uma identidade não apenas do eu-lírico e de São Paulo, mas do Brasil como um todo. Neste trabalho abordaremos a construção poética numa perspectiva de conexões e contradições que emergem as relações de diversos povos, falas e cores. O eu-lírico no poema aponta a complexidade do fazer poético em torno da mistura e apagamento não apenas de povos dispostos no poema, mas da própria linguagem diversa na composição estética da condução imagética da historicidade que emerge o ser social. O poema será analisado de acordo com o embasamento teórico de João Luiz Lafetá e György Lukács que elucidarão questões referentes a estrutura narrativa que tem como projeto estético humanizador em sua potência transformadora e crítica.
 Palavras-chave: Mário de Andrade. Improviso do Mal da América. Identidade.

Towards a Compositional Model of Ideology

This article sets forth a compositional model of ideology by drawing on the tradition of historical materialism and further developing its insights into the aesthetic composition of reality. It demonstrates how ideology is not simply a set of false beliefs but is rather the process by which social agents are composed over time in every dimension of their existence, including their thoughts, practices, perceptions, representations, values, affects, desires, and unconscious drives. By working through a number of diverse debates and authors—ranging from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels to Louis Althusser, Eduardo Galeano, Rosaura Sánchez, and Paulo Freire—it thereby elucidates how ideology is best understood as an aesthetic process that includes aspect of sense and sense-making, and that therefore requires a collective, cultural revolution as its antidote.

Desempenho acústico de esquadria de alumínio com melhorias na caixa de persiana

As esquadrias exercem funções que extrapolam sua funcionalidade e composição estética, pois são fundamentais para o atendimento de diversos requisitos, entre eles o desempenho acústico. Se mal projetadas e instaladas, as esquadrias, representam o principal ponto de falha na isolação sonora de uma fachada, especialmente quando compostas por persiana. Este artigo tem como objetivo apresentar a influência no desempenho acústico, descrito na NBR 15575 (ABNT, 2013) de uma esquadria, após a inserção de dois diferentes materiais de absorção acústica em sua caixa de persiana: manta de lã de PET e espuma de alta densidade, nas situações de persiana estendida e recolhida. A amostra ensaiada consiste em uma janela com perfis de alumínio, persianas de alumínio e de vidro laminado 4+4 mm. Os ensaios foram realizados em laboratório, seguindo a ISO 10140-2 (2010). Os resultados obtidos mostraram que não houve melhoria no desempenho acústico da esquadria por meio da inserção dos materiais na caixa de persiana e, em contrapartida, pequenas falhas na instalação geraram perda significativa no desempenho.

Nothingness in motion: Theorizing Bruce Lee’s action aesthetics

This article argues that Bruce Lee revolutionized kung fu cinema not only by increasing its authenticity and combativity but also by revealing its inherent connection to wuyi (武意), or martial ideation. Martial ideation refers to a specific negotiation of action and stasis in martial arts performance which contains a powerful overflow of emotion in tranquility. Since the early 1970s, Bruce Lee’s kung fu films have been labeled “chop-socky,” offering only fleeting visual and visceral pleasures. Subsequently, several studies explored the cultural significance and political implications of Lee’s films. However, not much attention has been paid to their aesthetic composition—in particular, how cinematic kung fu manifests Chinese aesthetics and philosophy on choreographic, cinematographic, and narrative levels. In Lee’s films, the concept of martial ideation is embodied in the Daoist notion of wu (nothingness), a metaphysical void that is invisible, nameless, and formless. Through a close reading of Laozi’s Daodejing (道德經), it is possible to discover two traits of nothingness—namely, reversal and return—which are characteristics of Lee’s representation of martial ideation. The former refers to a paradigmatic shift from concreteness to emptiness, while the latter makes such a shift reversible and perennial via the motif of circularity. The discussion focuses on films in which Lee’s creative influence is clearly discernible, such as Fist of Fury (1972), The Way of the Dragon (1972), and the surviving footage intended for The Game of Death featured in Bruce Lee: A Warrior’s Journey (2000). These films shed light on the complicated relationship between the cinematic (action and stasis), the martial (Jeet Kune Do), the aesthetic (ideation), and the philosophical (Daoism). The goal is to stimulate a more balanced discussion of Lee’s films both from the perspective of global action cinema and Chinese culture.

Architecture, urban form, and assemblage aesthetics in Mexico City’s street markets

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to consider Mexico City’s street markets as temporary and modular architectural products that emerge out of intensive, routine and repeated negotiations over urban spatial affordances in a crowded metropolitan environment. Particular attention is given to the polychromatic visual form, not as some detached work of art, but as a collection of tiny signals of the labor, commerce and social relations unfolding below.Design/methodology/approachFor this paper, the author has deployed a methodological approach that blends scholarship and creative practice. From 2016 to 2018, the author conducted fieldwork during three trips to Mexico City, making site visits, undertaking structured observation and engaging in conversations with vendors and customers. The author also collected data available from various municipal agencies, and reportage from newspaper articles, blogs and magazines. Meanwhile, the author developed a creative practice method grounded in the production of rendered aerial views, which allowed for the identification of typologies based on the organizational logics of the street markets.FindingsThe paper identifies five typologies of street market, including: the linear, the circuit, the cluster, the contour and the hybrid. The application of these typologies by street market vendors allows for the optimal exploitation of spatial allotments for buying and selling goods. In the end, the paper reveals the polychromatic markets as expressions of an assemblage aesthetic, each a variation on a theme grounded in the cumulative daily choices, desires, routines and thickly woven collaborations of working-class people in one of the world’s great conurbations.Research limitations/implicationsThe study is based on a limited number of cases. There are currently 1,400 street markets regularly operating in Mexico City, 200 of which set up on any given day. In order to provide some depth and texture to the study, this paper only examines 15 markets falling into the five typologies identified above. Further research would help to refine these typologies, quantify the daily and quarterly transactions that take place in the markets and assess the impacts of street vending on their surroundings.Social implicationsMexico City’s street markets provide employment for some 800,000 vendors, suppliers, transporters and laborers. They also provide one-fifth of all household goods purchased in the city and 40 percent of all fresh produce. And despite the conflicts that arise, they offer an associational approach to the labor of street vending, as well as crucial economic opportunities for women with children. However, it is apparent that street markets face a range of challenges that could be mitigated with supportive policies.Originality/valueWhile there is a small and growing literature on Mexico City’s street markets, there is no work to date that examines the assemblage aesthetic that comprises their daily emergence on the landscape. Nor do any extant studies situate the aesthetic composition within the varied urban forms, social relations and labor practices that undergird the street markets.

Aesthetic Composition Evaluation based on Perceptual Yohaku in a Photograph

Aesthetic Composition Evaluation based on Perceptual Yohaku in a Photograph

Time, Cognition, and Approach: Sustainable Tourism Strategies for Abandoned Vernacular Landscapes

The main objective of the study is to challenge previous approaches to heritage, both in terms of management and conceptualization. It aims to highlight the importance and articulation of the different attributes in abandoned vernacular landscapes in search of a sustainable approach. To do so, the study focuses on a specific landscape in the Mediterranean basin where three areas of intensity have been selected for an eventual assessment of the principles of integration and consistency of the landscape. These areas have helped to establish the importance of distance and cognition in determining strategies for sustainable tourism. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have allowed us to ascertain the extent to which values, previously acquired from participatory fieldwork, can be detected depending on proximity or remoteness, as well as their application in the three cases for assessment. Thus, five criteria have been established to analyse these values: (1) overview of the landscape, (2) dominance or intensity of elements, (3) the aesthetic composition of space, (4) the selective interpretation of the visual variables, and (5) the fragility of specific areas in the landscape. Finally, the discussed criteria provide new insights into the dynamic and static realms of authenticity and integrity, which have helped in the analysis of previous rigid conventions on values, time, perception, and approach.

The perception of heritage values and their analysis by using GIS tools in vernacular heritage landscapes

<p class="Abstracttext-VITRUVIO">The main objective of the study is to assess, independently of the scenic beauty, the importance and composition of the different attributes within a given landscape. For this purpose, the study focuses on Penyagolosa where we have selected three areas of evaluation to determine the importance of distance in the determination of heritage values of the landscape. Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) determines what values are detectable on the basis of the terms of proximity and remoteness and how they are applied in three cases of assessment. Thus, 5 criteria have been set to analyze these values: 1. the overview of the landscape, 2. dominance or intensity of elements, 3. the aesthetic composition of space, 4. The selective interpretation of the visual and 5 variables. The fragility or alterations induced in the landscape. Ultimately, criteria are discussed from dynamic and static fields of the authenticity and integrity of the landscape and they affect how they neglect.</p>

샤넬 디자인 심미 구성의 다면적 연구 : 공적 패션과 여성주의 의식의 구현 양상

본 연구의 목적은 여성복에 여성주의 철학적 가치를 부여함으로써 ‘공적 패션’으로서 공적 자아를 표현하여 현대패션 스타일의 유형적 체계를 세운 샤넬 디자인에 나타난 ‘공적’ 미의식을 살펴보는데 있다.BR 연구 방법 및 내용은 선행 연구 및 관련 서적에 의한 자료 분석을 통해 공적 영역에 대한 개념 및 공적영역에서 패션의 역할을 고찰보고, 여성패션에 담겨있는 여성주의 철학적 가치를 탐색한 다음, ‘공적 패션’의 심미 기준과 미적 가치를 도출하여 복식에 나타난 공적 미학을 토대로 샤넬의 디자인에 나타난 여성주의 철학적 미의식을 분석하였다. 연구 범위는 샤넬의 개인적인 스타일이 나타났던 1906년경부터 샤넬스타일이 클래식한 의상으로 구축된 시기(1954년∼1971년)까지의 패션으로 한정하였다.BR 여성주의 철학적 가치를 담고 있는 공적 패션의 미학적 기준을 저항의지, 자율의지, 절제의지, 해방의지등으로 대별하고 여기에서 저항적 여성미, 자율적 활동미, 절제된 우아미, 현대적 여성미 등의 미적 가치를 도출하여 이를 토대로 샤넬의 디자인 철학에 나타난 ‘공적’ 미의식을 살펴본 결과는 다음과 같다.BR 첫째, 샤넬의 디자인에 표출되는 저항적 여성미는 검정색의 사용, 상하가 분리된 슈트의 도입, 남성의 정체성의 상징물인 바지 등의 요소에서 나타난다. 둘째, 샤넬의 디자인에 표출되는 자율적 활동미는 심플한 모자, 코르셋 제거, ‘샤넬라인’의 스커트, 숄더백, 신축성이 좋은 저지 직물의 사용에서 표출된다. 셋째, 샤넬의 디자인에 표출되는 절제된 우아미는 파티용 슈미즈 드레스에 저렴하면서 신축성과 보온성이 뛰어난 ‘저지’ 직물의 사용, ‘검은 드레스(little black dress)’를 통해서 표출된다. 넷째, 샤넬의 디자인에 표출되는 현대적 여성미는 다채로운 컬러의 트위드 슈트, 퀼팅 숄더백, 베이지색 투톤 슈즈, 모조 장신구 등을 종합적인 코디를 통해서 나타난다.BR 이상의 연구는 여성의 공적 외형화를 위한 ‘드레스 코드’를 정립하는데 의의가 있다.

Compte rendu de Notes on the cognitive texture of an oral mind: Kitawa, a Melanesian Culture de G. M. G. Scoditti

This volume is the third monograph by Giancarlo Scoditti on Nowau culture, following Kitawa. A Linguistic and Aesthetic Analysis of Visual Art in Melanesia (1990) and Kitawa Oral Poetry: An Example from Melanesia (1996). In this volume Scoditti continues his long-term analysis of the island of Kitawa in the Milne Bay area of Papua New Guinea, with a particular focus on the aesthetic composition of Nowau cultural artefacts both visual and verbal. His major focus here, as throughout his project...

The polyphonic performance of testimony in Svetlana Aleksievich’s Voices from Utopia

ABSTRACTThis article claims that Svetlana Aleksievich’s Voices from Utopia should be read as testimony. Although based on eyewitnesses interviewed by Aleksievich, the voices represented in the five books are interpreted as the creation of an implied author. In contrast to a theoretical standpoint defining fact in a dichotomous relation to fiction, this study identifies the historical value of Aleksievich’s writing as intimately connected to the aesthetic composition. The article has two major aims. The first is to describe how the monologues and choirs in Voices from Utopia are represented. Using Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of the polyphonic novel, the internal focalization of the testimonies, in combination with a significant reduction of the external perspective, both on the level of dialogue and narration, are described as together constituting a polyphonic composition. The second aim is to demonstrate how this polyphony is interrelated to trauma theory and the psychological hardships experienced by the witnesses in the act of representing a traumatic experience. The hypothesis is that the polyphonic structure could be interpreted as an ethical representation of the interviews: first, it reflects an empathy with the witnesses’ ambivalence when confessing their traumatic past; secondly, because it contributes to ethically engaging the implied reader.

The rhetorical artistic image in (buhjeen) novel for Nafie Akreyi

The rhetorical artistic image in its general sense is the indirect image of the original meaning of the words. The image that carries in its buildings hidden meanings expressed by the substance of speech. Therefore, any words, whether prose, poetry, or narration, if he moves away from his descent, will carry another meaning with the original meaning. Since the novel took place in the hands of critics and analysts, especially when it opened its doors to modernity, it has reached its aesthetic and cognitive level, and by analyzing its linguistic structures and varying levels of narrative techniques and artistic paintings, Rouia has been able to employ modern techniques and images such as rhetorical, cinematic and sensual. In the novel (fusion) and research entitled (aesthetic composition of novel fusion) we see that the writer has not overpriced the mental and sensory images in an artistic manner is exaggerated, except in the sites had to resort to exaggeration in mental and sensory images, to add to the novel artistic beauty on the one hand and expression of what Felt by the protagonist on the other hand.

A work of two registers: Mukabele, private and public

Abstract The Mevlevi sema, usually described as the dance of the whirling dervishes, can be understood to be both a private transformational passage and a public performance with theatrical dimensions. The exceptional commitment and effort that it requires evolves a participant’s deep focus towards one’s interior. At the same time, the commitment to welcoming guests as witnesses to the ceremony ensures that the practice remains connected to the wider world. What is created through the balance of these two dimensions? What is made possible by the ceremony’s dynamic relationship, in which the participants’ immersion in personal transformation contributes towards an aesthetic composition for onlookers? I explore these questions with reference to the propositions of Jerzy Grotowski, whose transcultural vision seeded my three decades of embodied practice as research and my arrival at participation in the Mevlevi sema in London.

Where2Stand

People often take photographs at tourist sites and these pictures usually have two main elements: a person in the foreground and scenery in the background. This type of “souvenir photo” is one of the most common photos clicked by tourists. Although algorithms that aid a user-photographer in taking a well-composed picture of a scene exist [Ni et al. 2013], few studies have addressed the issue of properly positioning human subjects in photographs. In photography, the common guidelines of composing portrait images exist. However, these rules usually do not consider the background scene. Therefore, in this article, we investigate human-scenery positional relationships and construct a photographic assistance system to optimize the position of human subjects in a given background scene, thereby assisting the user in capturing high-quality souvenir photos. We collect thousands of well-composed portrait photographs to learn human-scenery aesthetic composition rules. In addition, we define a set of negative rules to exclude undesirable compositions. Recommendation results are achieved by combining the first learned positive rule with our proposed negative rules. We implement the proposed system on an Android platform in a smartphone. The system demonstrates its efficacy by producing well-composed souvenir photos.

Strategy for aesthetic photography recommendation via collaborative composition model

In this study, the authors propose a collaborative composition model for automatically recommending suitable positions and poses in the scene of photography taken by amateurs. By analysing aesthetic‐aware features, the authors' strategy jointly takes attention and geometry composition into account to learn the aesthetic manifestation knowledge of professional photographers. Firstly, aesthetic composition representation exploits the strength of visual saliency to explicitly encode the spatial correlation of the professional photos. Secondly, ℓ2 regularised least square is adopted to constrain the representation coefficients, which provides a fast solution in selecting aesthetic candidates collaboratively. In addition, a novel confidence measure scheme is further designed based on reconstruction errors and the reference photos are updated adaptively according to the composition rules. Both qualitative and quantitative evaluations show that the model performs well for the portrait photographing recommendation.

Design Aesthetics of Transborder Infrastructure in the Pearl River Delta

Design Aesthetics of Transborder Infrastructure in the Pearl River Delta investigates the development of a “transborder” ferry network that allows passengers in Mainland China to fly through Hong Kong International Airport without going through customs and immigration controls. Located deep inside Guangdong Province, these facilities cater to travelers whose movement across international frontiers is limited by their income or citizenship. Focusing on two of these terminals, Max Hirsh argues that the prevailing emphasis on iconic structures in the architectural history of air travel has overshadowed the emergence of distinctly un-iconic aviation facilities designed to plug less-privileged people and places into broader networks of international air travel. Hirsh locates this infrastructural innovation in the historical context of the region and interrogates its spatial logic and aesthetic composition in an effort to model a new understanding of urban space: one that illuminates an architecture of incipient global mobility that has been inconspicuously inserted into ordinary places and unspectacular structures throughout the Pearl River Delta.

以生态景观构建乡村审美空间

On the surface,rural aesthetic spaces are not considered practical or utilitarian. However,mapping them out is valuable,because permanently sustainable development is the essence of the relationship between man and land. In the early agrarian age,the layout of rural areas was guided by people' s aesthetic views of ecology rather than modern precise statistics,calculations,and related design principles. The inherited philosophy of respecting the natural landscape is the original driving force for preserving aesthetic spaces. Ancient feng shui landforms should be preserved in China. These nonutilitarian elements carried villagers' natural aesthetic philosophy across generations and captured the meaning of continuous development of the man-land relationship. At present,rural research focuses on the economics of land use. Research on the ecological landscape construction of rural aesthetic spaces is limited,and this needs to be investigated as an important topic in the field. As rural landscapes evolve,human agricultural activities leave an imprint on the aesthetics of ecological spaces,and modern layout patterns result in an inversion of the rural landscape. In recent years,the destruction of the regional geographical structure by the rapid development of modern urbanization has been devastating. My research aims to analyze rural ecological landscapes and aesthetic spaces corresponding to the elements,and how aesthetic spaces are constructed based on geographical frames. I will carry out a multi-scale study of morphological characteristics,landscape space,and the relationship between evolution patterns and response mechanisms. In large-scale landscape areas,preserving the spatial relationship between villages and geographic landscapes is particularly essential if villages are to inherit cultural and historical traditions. Town regions are medium-scale landscape areas. Based on the investigation of geographic elements such as mountain ranges and water systems,the principle of ecological art composition requires villages and fields to consider distribution contrast and plan the height,scale,and density of rural construction,road linearity and strength,andother urban construction indexes from the perspective of ecological aesthetics. Small-scale areas usually adopt aesthetic space composition with architectural design methods,which should consider natural aesthetic philosophy,interior and exterior spaces,and rural social factors. The combination of geography and urban planning that shapes spaces and the connotation of space far exceeds social relationships when determining the development scale and construction layout of rural areas. The priority is to maintain harmony in the social space. The construction of rural aesthetic space operates through the"hardware"of the geographical landscape and the "software"of cultural inheritance and accumulation with respect to landscape forms,mechanisms,functional structures,and so on. Rural landscape planning must use geography as its basic space structure,base itself on regional geographical space analysis and landscape preservation,and place importance on indexes of preservation of the regional landscape and traditional culture. It should be specified that the requirements of landscape optimization and socioeconomic development are embedded in the requirements of ecological civilization and social development in the layout of landscape space. These elements form a landscape network that can maintain the comprehensive environment. The philosophy of landscape aesthetics should be expanded to broader spaces in order to introduce the concept of landscape beauty to towns,villages,and even farmlands.

Rejuvenescimento de lóbulo de orelha: descrição da técnica e indicações

O lóbulo de orelha ocupa posição única entre as estruturas da face e é uma região importantíssima na composição estética da orelha. A idade altera o formato, a largura e o comprimento do lóbulo, em decorrência da flacidez dos tecidos e, assim, fica em desarmonia de proporção com outros elementos estéticos da orelha, exigindo correção. Muito pouco tem sido descrito para orientar o cirurgião no rejuvenescimento da orelha. A correção do lóbulo envelhecido pode ser feita isoladamente ou em combinação com uma cirurgia de rejuvenescimento facial, bem como em ritidoplastias secundárias por lóbulo inadequadamente preso à face. A cirurgia é bastante simples, de recuperação rápida, com resultados interessantes. O objetivo básico do trabalho consiste na descrição da técnica de rejuvenescimento do lóbulo da orelha e suas indicações. O posicionamento estratégico da cicatriz final em continuidade com uma depressão anatômica da orelha, que é a escafa, e ocultada pelo antitrágus garante resultado final adequado, com cicatrizes pouco aparentes. A técnica descrita representa uma opção tática para reformular e rejuvenescer a orelha.

Harold Pinter’s “More Precisely Political” Dramas, or a Post-1983 Economy of Affect

This essay explores selections from Harold Pinter’s later, more decidedly political dramas ( Precisely [1983], One for the Road [1984], Mountain Language [1988], and The New World Order [1991]) from the point of view spectatorship and, more specifically, by means of a theoretical discourse of affect based chiefly on Deleuze. It argues that, in apprehending the affective dimension of Pinter’s political dramas from the 1980s onwards, we can better understand how their political character consists precisely in the way in which they enable spectators to undergo a transformative affective experience. Relatedly, bringing a discourse of affect to Pinter’s political dramas permits us to discern the relationship between the works’ political expression and their aesthetic composition.

Harold Pinter’s “More Precisely Political” Dramas, or a Post-1983 Economy of Affect

ABSTRACT:ABSTRACT: This essay explores selections from Harold Pinter’s later, more decidedly political dramas (Precisely [1983], One for the Road [1984], Mountain Language [1988], and The New World Order [1991]) from the point of view spectatorship and, more specifically, by means of a theoretical discourse of affect based chiefly on Deleuze. It argues that, in apprehending the affective dimension of Pinter’s political dramas from the 1980s onwards, we can better understand how their political character consists precisely in the way in which they enable spectators to undergo a transformative affective experience. Relatedly, bringing a discourse of affect to Pinter’s political dramas permits us to discern the relationship between the works’ political expression and their aesthetic composition.