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1 online resource (200 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
Table of contents; list of illustrations; acknowledgements; introduction; part i; in defence of sociology; neuroaesthetics; on bildwissenschaft; part ii; aesthetics in the expanded field of culture; hidden aesthetics in referential images; why the verbal may be experienced as visual; aesthetics based on a perceptual model; haptic visuality and neuroscience; part iii; danto's narrative notion of history and the future of art; the aesthetic dimension of žižek's conception of cinema; cavell on film and scepticism; photographic images in the digital age; a change in essence?; contributors; index. |
| Summary |
How can aesthetic enquiry contribute to the study of visual culture? There seems to be little doubt that aesthetic theory ought to be of interest to the study of visual culture. For one thing, aesthetic vocabulary has far from vanished from contemporary debates on the nature of our visual experiences and its various shapes, a fact especially pertinent where dissatisfaction with vulgar value relativism prevails. Besides, the very question-ubiquitous in the debates on visual culture-of what is ... |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Aesthetics.
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Aesthetics. |
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Art -- Philosophy.
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Art -- Philosophy. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Dadejík, Ondřej, 1973-
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Stejskal, Jakub.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dadejik, Ondrej. Aesthetic Dimension of Visual Culture. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2010 9781443824286 |
| ISBN |
9781443824323 (electronic book) |
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1443824321 (electronic book) |
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9781443824286 |
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1443824283 |
| Standard No. |
9786612776809 |
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