Aesthetic Perspective Research Articles

Restaurarea unui podișor din patrimoniul Muzeului Etnografic al Transilvaniei

"The restoration of a cupboard from the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography Collection The cupboard is one of several staple pieces that are found in the traditional households across Romania. The 19th century cupboard was acquired by the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography from Trip village, Satu Mare County in 2002. Long before its acquisition, the artefact was covered with a thick layer of paint which obstructed the original embellishments. The removal of the paint layer was deemed necessary as it devalued the cupboard from both a historical and an aesthetical perspective. The cleaning process was done slowly and gradually using chemical (dimethylformamide or DMF) as well as mechanical methods (spatula, scalpel). Keywords: cupboard, traditional, museum, restoration "

A review on quality from the perspective of industrial product design assessment

The design assessment of an industrial product implies the objective approach of the product from both technical and aesthetic perspective, considering the market segment and its relation to the product through ergonomic and also signification associations, all of this taking into account functionality and the perceived quality of a product. The presented paper represents a review on quality in its relation to product design by analysing in turn the relations between quality, product, design and user and establishing the common concepts associated to quality related to each design dimension. The research contributes to the understanding of quality when is addressed from the point of view of industrial design assessment.

Celebrating Female Desire in the Medieval Era: an Exegesis of the Erotic Verses from Jayadeva’s G?tagovinda

Discussing women’s sexual desire has long been perceived as a taboo in the East and the West as well. Undeniably, there is a stigma attached to it which, unfortunately, continues even today. However, surprisingly enough, the ancient and the medieval Indians had always been open to female sexuality before their philogynist culture was obliterated and replaced by the ‘zenana culture’ of the Mughals and the ‘Victorian morality’ of the British Raj. Even in the Medieval Era, which is often labelled as conservative and orthodox, people accepted female desire as a biological reality. Composed in twelve cantos, Jayadeva’s magnum opus, G?tagovinda, celebrates sexuality and candidly depicts female orgasm with sheer poetic acumen. Jayadeva has not only eradicated the stigma attached to it, but he has also delineated it from the aesthetical perspectives of the San?tana Dharma which makes it “a unique work in Indian literature and a source of religious inspiration in both medieval and contemporary Vaisnavism” (Miller, 1984). In this paper endeavours to analyze, assemble, and demonstrate how the poet has celebrated female psyche, female sexuality, and female orgasm in the 12th Century CE. The paper deals with the primary aspects of the book which are related to female mind and sexuality. Library method of research has been carried out to substantiate the claims that this research paper makes. As the book is originally composed in Sanskrit, the research paper contains many Indic names and words which are written in accordance with the International Alphabet for Sanskrit Translitearation (IAST) method.

A New Method for Optimizing the Cabin Layout of Manned Submersibles

In order to reduce the misoperation of submersible pilots in the complex environment of deep sea and improve human reliability, it is a very important method to optimize the cabin space of manned submersible. In this paper, manned submersible Jiaolong is taken as an example to describe the breakthrough of traditional modes for optimizing the cabin layout of manned submersible with an aesthetic perspective of deconstruction and reconstruction thinking; the layout is optimized based on deconstruction and reconstruction from the cultural perspective of interdisciplinary. The experimental results show that the layout of manned submersible cabin is optimized by combining the theory of deconstruction and reconstruction aesthetics and human factors engineering, and the feasibility and effectiveness of this method are verified by multiobjective genetic algorithm. Deconstruction and reconfiguration layout optimization improves the human reliability of divers. It is a new method for the optimization of manned submersible cabin layout and also provides a reference for studies on the layout of similar small space.

Vukotić a ti druzí. Jugoslávská animace v československé kinodistribuci v souvislostech bilaterálních vztahů

Iluminace is the only Czech double-blind peer-reviewed journal for scholarly reflection upon cinema which is approached from theoretical, historical and aesthetic perspectives. It emphasizes original research and interdisciplinary approaches and in recent years has focused on international authors and readers.

Z rodinné kroniky zakázkového filmaře (Herma Kennel, Als die Comics laufen lernten - Der Trickfilmpionier Wolfgang Kaskeline zwischen Werbekunst und Propaganda)

Iluminace is the only Czech double-blind peer-reviewed journal for scholarly reflection upon cinema which is approached from theoretical, historical and aesthetic perspectives. It emphasizes original research and interdisciplinary approaches and in recent years has focused on international authors and readers.

Andrey Khrzhanovsky's A Cat and a Half (2002) as a Palimpsest Beyond Conventions

Iluminace is the only Czech double-blind peer-reviewed journal for scholarly reflection upon cinema which is approached from theoretical, historical and aesthetic perspectives. It emphasizes original research and interdisciplinary approaches and in recent years has focused on international authors and readers.

Fakta z ocelové skříně. Dějiny rakouských biografů v době německé okupace (Klaus Christian Vögl, Angeschlossen und gleichgeschaltet. Kino in Österreich 1938-1945)

Iluminace is the only Czech double-blind peer-reviewed journal for scholarly reflection upon cinema which is approached from theoretical, historical and aesthetic perspectives. It emphasizes original research and interdisciplinary approaches and in recent years has focused on international authors and readers.

Plasmaticita digitálního povrchu. CGI (sur)realismus ve snovém deníku Jona Rafmana

Iluminace is the only Czech double-blind peer-reviewed journal for scholarly reflection upon cinema which is approached from theoretical, historical and aesthetic perspectives. It emphasizes original research and interdisciplinary approaches and in recent years has focused on international authors and readers.

"Not Corrected or Otherwise Manipulated": Digitizing the Films of Jan Kříženecký (Jiří Anger (ed.), Filmy Jana Kříženeckého / The Films of Jan Kříženecký)

Iluminace is the only Czech double-blind peer-reviewed journal for scholarly reflection upon cinema which is approached from theoretical, historical and aesthetic perspectives. It emphasizes original research and interdisciplinary approaches and in recent years has focused on international authors and readers.

On machine vision and photographic imagination

In this article we introduce the concept of implied optical perspective in deep learning computer vision systems. Taking the BBC's experimental television programme “Made by Machine: When AI met the Archive” (2018) as a case study, we trace a conceptual and material link between the system used to automatically “watch” the television archive and a specific type of photographic practice. From a computational aesthetics perspective, we show how deep learning machine vision relies on photography, its technical regimes and epistemic advantages, and we propose a novel way to identify the latent camera through which the BBC archive was seen by machine.

English

BACKGROUND Conventional Dissection Surgery (CDS) and Plastibell Device (PD) are the commonly used techniques for male circumcision. We wanted to evaluate and compare the postoperative problems and aesthetic results, and the patient’s / parent’s acceptance, of the two techniques of circumcision in boys. METHODS This was a prospective study in which children in the age group 0 - 12 years attending the surgery outpatient department for various indications of circumcision were enrolled on the basis of a predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria. The subjects were randomized and allocated into two groups, group PD and group CDS. Group PD was subjected to circumcision by Plastibell device technique. Group CDS was subjected to circumcision by conventional dissection technique. Duration of the circumcision and intra-operative complications if any were recorded, from starting the retraction of prepuce to completion of the procedure. Early and late complications were also compared during follow-up visits. Statistical analysis was performed using the Strata Software Version 10.0. P value less than 0.05 was taken as statistically significant. RESULTS The mean age of children in PD and CDS group was found to be 5.30 ± 3.29 years and 5.58 ± 3.66 years respectively. The mean age of patients in both the groups was found to be comparable with no statistically significant difference. According to Kayaba’s classification type 1 and type 2 (41.4 %) prepuce were most common in both the groups. Phimosis, ballooning of prepuce and recurrent urinary tract infection were common indications for circumcision in our study. Mean surgical time was 5.91 ± 1.74 in the P D group and 23.52 ± 5.94 in the CDS group which was statistically highly significant (P = 0.0000). Bleeding, cicatricial scar and adhesions were more common in CDS group, whereas dysuria and swelling were more common PD group and the difference was statistically significant. Children required less analgesia in CDS group. The average rate of late complications was significantly less in PD group as compared to CDS group (P = 0.006). CONCLUSIONS Circumcision by Plastibell device was comparable with conventional dissection technique in paediatrics age group. However, from aesthetic perspective, parents of Plastibell group appeared to be more satisfied than conventional dissection group. KEYWORDS Circumcision, Plastibell Device, Conventional Dissection Surgery, Complications

Imagining Cinema: ‘Cinempathy’ and the Embodied Imagination

Imagination has been the focus of much philosophical inquiry in recent decades. Although it plays an essential role in linking emotional engagement with ethical experience, imagination has received comparatively little attention in film-philosophy. In this article, I argue that imagination plays an essential role in linking emotional engagement with moral-ethical experience. Drawing on phenomenological, cognitive and aesthetic perspectives, I focus on perceptual imagining and suggest that an account of embodied cinematic imagination — encompassing both perceptual/sensory and propositional/cognitive imagining — is especially relevant to theorizing cinematic experience. The interplay of first-person empathic and third-person sympathetic perspectives (‘cinempathy’) is another essential feature of our emotional and ethical engagement with cinema. By synthesizing ‘bottom-up’ sensory, affective responses to audiovisual images, with ‘top-down’ cognitive processes associated with mental simulation, an account of embodied cinematic imagination can explain how emotional engagement and ethical responsiveness work together in our experience of audiovisual narratives.

Constructing an aesthetic discourse: Aesthetic education where Daoism meets postmodernism

ABSTRACT Despite the prevalence of aesthetic education as one of the main developmental objectives in curricular worldwide, the mainstream philosophical discourse on its definition is predominately framed by western philosophy due to a paucity of cross-cultural studies on the subject. The article aims to achieve a contemporary understanding of aesthetic education from both the Chinese and Western aesthetic perspectives. Through the lens of postmodernism, the relationship between Daoist aesthetics and the western postmodern aesthetic perspectives, particularly the Deleuzian concept of rhizome, is identified. Both aesthetic perspectives concern de-authorship and promote self-consciousness/self-awareness. The study reconceptualises the functions of aesthetic education with the Chinese aesthetic philosophy that promotes the nurture of better people through benevolence.

Retraction: Research on the Best Techniques of Piano Touching Keys Based on the Perspective of Musical Aesthetics under Computer Aided Technology (J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 1648 022155)

This article has been retracted by IOP Publishing following an allegation that raises concerns this article may have been created, manipulated, and/or sold by a commercial entity. In addition, IOP Publishing has seen no evidence that reliable peer review was conducted on this article, despite the clear standards expected of and communicated to conference organisers. The authors of the article have been given opportunity to present evidence that they were the original and genuine creators of the work, however at the time of publication of this notice, IOP Publishing has not received any response. IOP Publishing has analysed the article and agrees there are enough indicators to cause serious doubts over the legitimacy of the work and agree this article should be retracted. The authors are encouraged to contact IOP Publishing Limited if they have any comments on this retraction. Retraction published: 16 September 2022

Research on the Best Techniques of Piano Touching Keys Based on the Perspective of Musical Aesthetics under Computer Aided Technology

The development of piano art has always accompanied the constant innovation of piano playing technology. During the period of playing the ancient piano and plucking the ancient piano, the piano works were mostly fresh and smooth, and the playing methods were mostly finger movements. From the late 18th century to the early 19th century, the modern stringed piano replaced the plucked piano. Piano performance technology has developed to a certain level under computer-aided technology; and in today’s highly developed human art civilization, piano playing skills are more scientific, more innovative and mature. In this development process, the finger is always the part that directly touches the piano. The strength, sensitivity, speed and variable touch mode and control ability of the finger are the basis of the performance.

Reading the World, Reading the Self

This article is a reflection on the wordy and worldly characters of literary texts that invites us to focus on how their referentiality unfolds in the act of reading. The article focuses in particular on the necessity for world literature to factor in the subjective involvement of the reader entailed by literary communication. It does so by firstly revisiting the old debate about referentiality and contextualization of literary texts in literary studies, and specifically within world literature, which is particularly concerned with understanding the boundaries of literary communication. It then analyses how the worldly and wordy components of literature can be brought together by considering the act of reading as the core of meaning production and as a process of generative construction, which, when based on the interaction between readers and distant texts, like in the specific case of world literature, has the possibility to maximize its potential. Engaging with Iser's and Poulet's phenomenological approaches to the act of reading, the article argues against the vision of literary texts as transparent objects and encourages scholars working on world literature to embrace the translucency and generative potential that literature offers, inviting them to embrace aesthetic and anthropological perspectives so as to understand works of world literature as tools for interpretation both of the world and of ourselves.

IMAJI BIBLIKAL SEBAGAI PENGHAYATAN IMAN PERSONAL DALAM PUISI-PUISI MARIO F. LAWI DAN RELEVANSINYA BAGI PEWARTAAN MELALUI KARYA SASTRA

Mario F. Lawi is one of the most popular young poet in the Indonesian Literary. He is well-known as the “biblical poet” who constantly explores biblical theme in a large number of his poems. This research elaborates biblical imagination as a form of a personal living faith and finds its relevance to the kerygmatic-preaching by the literature. This analysis uses the combination of three theories, i.e: the theory of intertextual semiotics by Michael Riffaterre from literature perspective, the theory of theological aesthetics by Hans Urs von Balhtasar from theology perspective and the concept of the kerygmatic-preaching from “The Letter of His Holiness Pope John Paul II to the Artists” by kergygmatic-preaching perspective. The result of this qualitative research i.e: 1) All of the biblical imagination in Mario’s poems have their references or allusions from the Bible text as their hipogram, 2) By theological aesthetics perspective, biblical imagination which is used by Mario in his biblical poems could be considered as a personal living faith, 3) The biblical imagination in Mario’s poems gives an altenative relevance to the kerygmatic-preaching ad intra (to the Christian readers) and ad exrtra (to the non-christian readers).

Sustainability and Authenticity of Chinese Traditional Crafts in the Contexts of Luxury and Tourism

Chinese crafts have been examined from economic, historical and aesthetic perspectives, but rather less attention has been devoted to them in the literature on luxury and tourism. When considering the former, it is worth noting that some of the world’s leading brands had their origins in craft businesses, notably Louis Vuitton, and that craft skills remain important for this industry in the 21st century. On the other hand, there is a common assumption that craft souvenirs represent a cheap and debased version of human material culture but, as many academics have asserted souvenirs come in a wide variety of forms, including what Graburn (2000) has called ‘pride goods’, in which peoples visited by tourists sell products that are simultaneously economically useful and boosters of esteem on behalf of the producing community. It is with these thoughts in mind that we turn our attention to the production of Chinese craft products in the early 21st century. As one of the leading handicraft producers in the world, the expanding demand for Chinese craft products has generated commercial opportunities and strong economic returns, it has also created challenges to the Chinese traditional crafts sector which may influence the direction and sustainability of its future development, and as such is worthy of deeper investigation and discussion.
 Keywords: Chinese traditional crafts, luxury, tourism, sustainability, authenticity

A Study on Analysis of Visual Expression Techniques of Motion Graphics from Visual Aesthetic Perspective -Focusing on the Terrestrial main news opening title-

A Study on Analysis of Visual Expression Techniques of Motion Graphics from Visual Aesthetic Perspective -Focusing on the Terrestrial main news opening title-