Aesthetic Life Research Articles

The Influence of the Market Economy on Graphic Design Activities in Ho Chi Minh City in the Pre-Renovation Period Of 1986

The vitality of the Graphic Design industry in Ho Chi Minh City is as strong as the economic development here, always exploring, innovating and developing to build a fuller and better life. The development of the Graphic Design industry is part of the development of the goods industry, retail services, commerce, etc. This is also a measure of the prosperous development of the new and free economy. The market economy that existed in Ho Chi Minh City before 1986, especially before 1976, had many impacts on the Graphic Design industry here. On the other hand, the development of the Graphic Design industry from the time the French arrived in this land until the period before 1986 has contributed significantly to the development of the city's economy and the aesthetic life of residents people.

All in A moment: the bridge to an aesthetic life

I sat down and drafted the letter that is printed below on February 1, 2024. I wanted to test the waters, after reflecting on the invitation, as I was not confident if I had anything to say. Unclear of my audience or of my direction, I addressed the blank word doc, “To my performance students, to myself, and to any folks out there that this makes sense to.” As ideas formed on the page, it became clear whom I was speaking to. It came as no surprise, as she was someone I have written letters and postcards to – for years before and in the months that followed. Like all of our mentors, I am always writing to Kristin, in some ways. Dr. V. is, always, part of my ideal and imagined audience, with her questioning stares, her generous presence, and her warm vocal recognitions – “Hmmm” and “Ahhhhh.” After that one writing session, I closed the file and did not touch it until months later, on August 2024, after being told that Kristin, that Dr. V, had passed. The force of her life, her teaching, her friendship, her energy, and her brilliance touched so many people. If anyone was going to live forever, it was Kristin, right? As we processed the news, I went back and read decades of her letters and cards. I, then, remembered and reread that letter printed below. What was a messy and meandering rough draft suddenly felt extremely precious. I did not want to touch it or alter it. It felt wrong to try and “fix” it, edit its initial flow, even when it was muddled and imprecise. Although Dr. V. was all about precision, I think she would forgive me, though probably not agree. So, I have submitted it as it is, as it was, tracing and circling that moment. Perhaps it is a futile effort to hold onto a then, the experience of being present in that moment in time. “Hmmm.” “Ahhhhh.” – Dustin Goltz, Sept 5, 2024.

AESTHETICS OF EXTREME: EXPERIENCE, CONTEMPLATION, IMAGINATION

The article considers aestheticisation of the perception of the world by a modern person, which is directly related to the transformation of his/her meanings and values. Modern culture actualises the aesthetic life position, determined by the preference for a direct-sensual view of the surrounding reality. The sensual side of the attitude to reality is leading also in extreme activities. At the same time, unlike other types of aestheticisation of human existence, extreme experiences acquire semantic integrity, since they require a person to be purposefully active in their production: here a person acts as a focused actor.

The Dilemma and Practice Path of Kindergarten Life Aesthetic Education

Aesthetic education is closely related to children s life. Aesthetic education comes from children s aesthetic life, but it is not equal to the simple repetition of children s daily life. The ultimate goal of aesthetic education is to improve children s life quality and life value. Currently, the Kindergarten life aesthetic education has certain difficulties, which are manifested as the limitation of the content of aesthetic education, the mechanical method of aesthetic education and the deviation of the environment of aesthetic education. To explore the multi-dimensional practice path of Kindergarten life aesthetic education, we should free children s eyes to fi nd beauty, free children s hands to create beauty, and free children s space and time to appreciate beauty.

Autonomy and Community in Kant’s Theory of Taste

Abstract In this paper, I argue that Kant has a far more communitarian theory of aesthetic life than is usually acknowledged. I focus on two aspects of Kant’s theory that might otherwise be taken to support an individualist reading, namely, Kant’s emphasis on aesthetic autonomy and his characterization of judgments of taste as involving demands for agreement. I argue that the full expression of autonomy in fact requires being a member of an aesthetic community and that within such a community, judgments of taste are issued as invitations to others to engage their faculties towards the goal of shared aesthetic appreciation.

Young Students’ Aesthetic Literacy and Online Usage During COVID-19 in Taiwan

Digital learning has been prevalent in both pre- and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Research suggests that mental health problems in young people have been exacerbated by COVID-19, possibly related to a lack of social connection. Young people spend more time on using the internet for either study or connecting with their peers. The United Nations Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) proposed the “OECD Future of Education and Skills 2030 project”, which directly addresses the unpredictable situation with the future trend. Students not only need to develop knowledge and skills, but also develop attitudes and values. Creating new value requires critical thinking and creativity to find different solutions to problems and collaborate with others to find solutions to complex problems. STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) education action has been valued. In 2011, President Obama proposed the importance of innovation, technology, and education and issued “A blueprint for reform: The reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act.” Inter order to promote STEM courses, US$3.1 billion had been invested in 2014. STEM is the 4-letter abbreviation of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, which is an emerging educational issue that combines the four professional fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The Rhode Island School of Design in the United States launched the “from STEM to STEAM” movement, which gradually spread among the private sector, local governments and education in various countries. Scholar in Hong Kong reviewed existing literature on STEAM courses and summarized two views on A: 1. ART = visible beauty, 2. ART = design thinking. Researchers and experts with art and communication media backgrounds believe that the most effective entry point for STEAM is to combine technology, science and art from the perspective of design. In the process of solving problems, design gives a clear purpose to the integration of art, technology, and science. Problem-solving is the commonality between STEM and ARTS that are closely connected. The problem-solving of STEM is based on practicality, while that of ARTS is based on creativity. The ability of expression is the main focus. The Curriculum Guidelines of 12 Year Basic Education in Taiwan emphasize literacy-oriented teaching and cultivates students’ knowledge, abilities, and attitudes through 12 years of national education. One of the core competencies is “artistic literacy and aesthetic literacy,” which is an important part of “communication and interaction.” However, most parents expect children to study further education. The teaching time of art-related courses or education are often borrowed from those of mathematics, science, and Chinese classes, which invisibly deprives young students of the opportunity to live an aesthetic life.

Stadi sul cammino della mimesis: Kierkegaard e la dialettica tra introflessione ed estroflessione


 
 
 The aim of this paper is to explore some existential possibilities that the concept of mimesis has in Kierkegaard. To this end, mimesis will be analyzed in two moments of his: in the life of the aesthete in Either-Or, where mimesis is related to the notions of poetry and fantasy, and in relation to the figures of the lily in the field and the bird in the sky. Two different notions of mimesis will then be studied in their dialectic between introspection and alienation. The aesthetic stage of mimesis will reveal the paradox of aesthetic life: on the one hand, the aesthete is apparently introflected, living in a world constructed of mimetic phantasms in his own image, but on the other hand, trapped in these reflections, he is unable to grasp his own self as a real possibility and is thus hopelessly alienated from himself. The opposite happens in the religious stage of mimesis, in which it is revealed that only in the apparent extroversion of imitating the absolute other is it possible to grasp one’s own self.
 
 

Aesthetic Life and Why It Matters, by Dominic Lopes, Bence Nanay, and Nick Riggle

Aesthetic Life and Why It Matters, by Dominic Lopes, Bence Nanay, and Nick Riggle

Contemporary Media Art Performance under the Visual Threshold of Interpretation

Purpose - Introduce contemporary media art, study the virtual representation forms of contemporary media art, and deeply explore the artistic meanings expressed by their forms of expression.
 Design/Methodology/Approach - Based on the characteristics of artistic expression such as innovation and interactivity, this article applies the three elements of understanding, interpretation, and application in hermeneutics theory to interpret multimedia art works.
 Findings - This article analyzes contemporary media art works from three dimensions of hermeneutics: understanding, interpretation, and application. The conclusion is that artists express their desire for balance and wisdom, their perception of the world's spiritual state through multimedia forms, and also enable readers to associate and make independent judgments about the works, thereby exploring their own spiritual world and perceptual experience. At the same time, participants themselves are also creating meaning, interpreting value, completing perception, determining intention, and jointly explaining the humanistic value and responsibility of the work with the artist.
 Research Implications - The study of cultural communication at the visual level plays an important role in the development of social information. Multimedia image visual art has been integrated into daily aesthetic life in the form of popular culture, becoming the most important carrier for exploring artistic life. This article combines theory and practice, using typical art cases for specific analysis, in order to better apply contemporary multimedia art theory to artistic creation, and provide fresh materials and beneficial attempts for the research of digital media art application theory.

Aesthetic Life and Why it Matters

Aesthetic Life and Why it Matters

Signifying Goethe’s Semiotic Words, Sounds, and Colours in My Aesthetic and Visual World

The term “aesthetic” has been a contributor to my moral and spiritual life. I have been seeking words, sounds and colours with passion and in meditation through Goethe. He has all the qualities I am looking for. First, his words (literature) enable me to establish my aesthetic life and visual communication. Second, his sounds (music) encourage me to visualize these selected words. Third, his colours (art) complete my selected words and sounds. But, they cannot affect me if passion and meditation have no place.

The Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure: Race, Affect, Environment. Edited by Kelly Mee Rich, Nicole M. Rizzuto, and Susan Zeiger

<i>The Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure: Race, Affect, Environment</i>. Edited by Kelly Mee Rich, Nicole M. Rizzuto, and Susan Zeiger

Aesthetic Life and Why it Matters

Journal Article Aesthetic Life and Why it Matters Get access Aesthetic Life and Why it Matters Dominic McIver Lopes, Bence Nanay, and Nick Riggle Oxford: oxford university press, 2022. pp. 128. £41.99 (hbk). Robbie Kubala Robbie Kubala The University of Texas at Austin, USA rkubala@utexas.edu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9648-6572 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, ayad013, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayad013 Published: 23 June 2023

Art as a Shelter from Science

Abstract In our life with science, we trust experts; we form judgements by inference from past evidence. We conduct ourselves very differently in the aesthetic domain. We avoid deferring to aesthetic experts. We form our judgements through direct perception of particulars rather than through inference. Why the difference? I suggest that we avoid aesthetic testimony and aesthetic inference, not because they’re unusable, but because we have adopted social norms to avoid them. Aesthetic appreciation turns out to be something like a game. We have laid down certain rules and restrictions in order to shape a kind of activity we cherish. And aesthetic properties turn out to be a kind of social construct. Much like the goal of a game, they are constituted in part by our obedience to certain rules. The norms of aesthetic life are different from those of science because our purposes are different. We engage in science to get the right answers; we engage in aesthetic appreciation to be absorbed in the activity of the sensuous perception of particulars. Our aesthetic practices are a constructed shelter from science; they restore to us a small domain where we may once again engage in our own sensuous perception of particulars.

Can Aesthetics Be Global?

AbstractPhilosophical aesthetics is to some extent beholden to what I will call personal aesthetics. By personal aesthetics, I mean the phenomena of individual aesthetic sensitivity: how each of us discerns and responds to elements of experience. I take that sensitivity to be finely woven into feeling to some degree at home in the world. There is something extremely local, and in a certain sense unreflective, about personal aesthetics – it is hard to notice one's own, historically specific aesthetic formation. Philosophical aesthetics, meanwhile, aspires to understand aesthetic life in a more reflective and general way. Aesthetic theories in the Western tradition, like most philosophical theories, try to articulate universally relevant and illuminating theoretical concepts and values. But can a theory of this kind acknowledge what is important at the level of personal aesthetics? Can aesthetic theories find fruitful application while also respecting the locality and variability of aesthetic sensitivity? What kinds of theoretical ambition and humility are called for in philosophical aesthetics?

“Pudiya Veielum Neelakadalum” Navalil Vazhvin Etharththangal

On the one hand, it is to live that life is to live. On the other hand, it is to make a commitment to live this way and not to deviate from it. We can see that the way of life of man lies behind these contradictory principles. As Kierkegaard puts it in his book Either / or, it is as if man’s life is an ethical life and an aesthetic life. That is to say, it is the reality of human life to experience every moment the various existences of joy, sorrow, hatred, sadness, misery, etc., as life is conducted in the context of unexpected twists and turns, problems and struggles. A copy of such realities is the novel ‘ pudiya veielum neelakadalum (The New Sun and the Blue Sea). With two central characters, Ashokarajan and Latha, this article presents a glimpse into the realities of human life that are intertwined with the story of the novel.

Comparison and Applicability of Facial Prosthetic Ear Manufacturing Cases

As a result of synthesizing the advice of experts in facial prosthetics, customized prosthetics for special cosmetics, and medical device manufacturing and sales experts, work competencies that require '3D printing based on digital work methods' are required. It was confirmed that 'prosthesis production, 3D scanning and modeling, and 3D printing' skills are required for work competency. In order to develop a more realistic aesthetic part, more attention and research are being made on the production of implants, and prosthetic manufacturers are developing materials that can extend the durability, practicality, and aesthetic life of the material. Observe the case of the human prosthesis production ear and examine the case of ear production application technology using 3D printing of facial prosthesis with special makeup. Through interviews with three face prosthetic manufacturers, we would like to explore the usefulness of facial prosthetics and ways to utilize them through collaboration with special cosmetics in the art world.

University Art Museum Connecting Communities to Create Aesthetic Life through Public Art Program: In the Name of the Trees

Starting from the theoretical viewpoints of relational aesthetics, the relationship was explored between a university art museum and communities in the Public Art Program—in the Name of the Trees offered by the National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU). Observational and interview methods were used to obtain research materials and explore how university art museums interact with communities through public art exhibitions and strengthen the relatively weak relationships with the community to co-create an aesthetic life. It is also observed how community residents can change their opinions about the university art museum by participating in the public art program. The results show that the university art museum effectively establishes interaction with the community residents through public art programs such as "collection-sharing", "teacher-student co-creation", "artist stationing" and "education promotion activities" and plays an active role in promoting interpersonal communication, sustaining the natural environment development and improving community public space.

Tarihsel Bir Perspektiften Modern Estetik’in İnşası ve Günümüzde Estetik Yaşamın İmkânı

Aesthetics became a basic philosophy branch/discipline with the book Aesthetica published by Baumgarten in the 18th century. Although aesthetics as a term is based on the concept of aisthanestai, which means to perceive and to sense in Greek, and aesthetics was a subject of philosophical discussion in this period, the fact that aesthetics became an independent philosophy discipline was realized with modern philosophy. Along with modern philosophy, the relation between beautiful and good we encountered in the Greeks, the essential value of beautiful that encompasses the whole of life was shattered, and especially the ethics-aesthetics relation came to an end. Aesthetics is confined to an inquiry purely on beautiful in a sensual extent. The surprising thing is that with this limited point of view, aesthetics as the subject of beauty in pre-modern period, could not be deepened and seem primitive due to its ethical aspect extending to the whole of life. Modern aesthetics has progressed with conceptual analysis and evaluations to reinforce this understanding. However, as Hakkı Hünler tries to show in his original work, Estetik’in Kısa Tarihi, in this judgment of modern aesthetic life as a product of a period in which the self was fragmented, is one-sided and one-dimensional. On the contrary, aesthetics as a branch of philosophy in the modern and post-modern periods, has led beauty to lose its essentiality and gradually become instrumental in search of making everything new in a way that will break from its roots. We can only see this problem with a historical reading on aesthetics. In this context, the article aims to bring Hünler’s impressive historical reading back to the agenda and to investigate the possibilities of a purely non-instrumental aesthetic life today.

Philip Dickinson, Romanticism and Aesthetic Life in Postcolonial Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 184 pp.

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