Showing papers in "The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism in 1989"
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TL;DR: In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing, fiction, and theories of literature as discussed by the authors, and this final volume, a comprehensive reexamination and synthesis of the ideas developed in volumes 1 and 2, stands as Ricoeure's most complete and satisfying presentation of his own philosophy.
Abstract: In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing, fiction, and theories of literature. This final volume, a comprehensive reexamination and synthesis of the ideas developed in volumes 1 and 2, stands as Ricoeur's most complete and satisfying presentation of his own philosophy.
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TL;DR: D Daniels and Cosgrove as discussed by the authors discuss the political iconography of woodland in later Georgian England and the geometrical geometry of landscape in sixteenth-century Venetian land territories.
Abstract: Preface Introduction: iconography and landscape Stephen Daniels and Denis Cosgrove 1. The geography of Mother Nature Peter Fuller 2. The evocative symbolism of trees Douglas Davies 3. The political iconography of woodland in later Georgian England Stephen Daniels 4. Places and dwellings: Wordsworth, Clare and the anti-picturesque John Lacas 5. Art and agrarian change, 1710-1815 Hugh Prince 6. 'Fields of radiance': the scientific and industrial scenes of Joseph Wright David Fraser 7. The privation of history: Landseer, Victoria and the Highland myth Trevor P. Pringle 8. The iconography of nationhood in Canadian art Brian S. Osborne 9. Rhetoric of the western interior: modes of environmental description in American promotional literature of the nineteenth century G. Malcolm Lewis 10. Symbolism, 'ritualism' and the location of crowds in early nineteenth-century English towns Mark Harrison 11. Symbol of the Second Empire: cultural politics and the Paris Opera House Penelope Woolf 12. The sphinx in the north: egyptian influences on landscape, architecture and interior design in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scotland Eric Grant 13. The geometry of landscape: practical and speculative arts in sixteenth-century Venetian land territories Denis Cosgrove 14. Maps, knowledge, and power J. B. Harley Index.
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TL;DR: Freedberg's "The Power of Images" as mentioned in this paper is an extraordinary critical achievement, exhilarating in its polemic against aesthetic orthodoxy, endlessly fascinating in its details, and is a powerful, disturbing book.
Abstract: "This learned and heavy volume should be placed on the shelves of every art historical library." E. H. Gombrich, "New York Review of Books" "This is an engaged and passionate work by a writer with powerful convictions about art, images, aesthetics, the art establishment, and especially the discipline of art history. It is animated by an extraordinary erudition." Arthur C. Danto, "The Art Bulletin" "Freedberg's ethnographic and historical range is simply stunning. . . . "The Power of Images" is an extraordinary critical achievement, exhilarating in its polemic against aesthetic orthodoxy, endlessly fascinating in its details. . . . This is a powerful, disturbing book." T. J. Jackson Lears, "Wilson Quarterly" "Freedberg helps us to see that one cannot do justice to the images of art unless one recognizes in them the entire range of human responses, from the lowly impulses prevailing in popular imagery to their refinement in the great visions of the ages." Rudolf Arnheim, "Times Literary Supplement""
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TL;DR: The politics of evaluative critical criticism has been studied extensively in the literature, see as mentioned in this paper for a survey. But the main focus of this paper is on evaluating Shakespeare's sonnets and critical problematics.
Abstract: 1. Fixed Marks and Variable Constancies: A Parable of Value Evaluating Shakespeare's Sonnets Critical Problematics 2. The Exile of Evaluation Fact and Value in the Literary Academy The Politics of Evaluative Criticism An Alternative Project 3. Contingencies of Value Contingency and Interdependence Matters of Taste Processes of Evaluation The Dynamics of Endurance 4. Axiologic Logic Hume's Natural Standard Kant's Pure Judgments Logical Tastes and The Other's Poison Three Postaxiological Postscripts 5. Truth/Value Judgment Typology and Maclntyre's Fall Value without Truth-Value Changing Places: Truth, Error, and Deconstruction 6. The Critiques of Utility Humanism, Anti-Utilitarianism, and the Double Discourse of Value Bataille's Expenditure Endless (Ex)Change 7. Matters of Consequence Critiques and Charges: The Objectivist Generation of "Relativism" Quietism and the Active Relativist Community, Solidarity, and the Pragmatist's Dilemma Politics and Justification Conceptual Tastes and Practical Consequences Notes Index
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TL;DR: In this article, a new account of meaning, rationality, and objectivity is given for meaning, meaning, and rationality in Western philosophy, with a focus on meaning and rationality.
Abstract: "There are books-few and far between-which carefully, delightfully, and genuinely turn your head inside out. This is one of them. It ranges over some central issues in Western philosophy and begins the long overdue job of giving us a radically new account of meaning, rationality, and objectivity."-Yaakov Garb, "San Francisco Chronicle"
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TL;DR: Gunn as discussed by the authors argues that this pragmatic legacy must be revaluated in the light of challenges posed by structuralist and post-structuralist theory, and challenges the assumptions of modern criticism with a revised interpretation of pragmatism.
Abstract: This important new work is at once a provocative defence of the kind of moral reflection once associated in America with the writings of Lionel Trilling and Edmund Wilson and an acknowledgement that this pragmatic legacy must be revaluated in the light of challenges posed by structuralist and post-structuralist theory. Gunn challenges the assumptions of modern criticism with a revised interpretation of pragmatism and its critical legacy.
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TL;DR: Art as semiological fact, Jan Mukarovsky time and the timeless in quattrocento painting, Yves Bonnefoy Giotto's joy, Julia Kristeya the trompe-l'oeil, Jean Baudillard towards a theory of reading in the visual arts - Poussin's "The Arcadian Shepherds", Louis Marin "Las Meninas", Michel Foucault the world as object, Roland Barthes ambrosia and gold, Michel Serres in black and white, Jean-Claude Lebensztejn
Abstract: Art as semiological fact, Jan Mukarovsky time and the timeless in quattrocento painting, Yves Bonnefoy Giotto's joy, Julia Kristeya the trompe-l'oeil, Jean Baudillard towards a theory of reading in the visual arts - Poussin's "The Arcadian Shepherds", Louis Marin "Las Meninas", Michel Foucault the world as object, Roland Barthes ambrosia and gold, Michel Serres in black and white, Jean-Claude Lebensztejn Turner translates Carnot, Michel Serres the wisdom of art, Roland Barthes.
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TL;DR: The authors explored the ways in which language constitutes textual functions, ranging from mediation to manipulation, from questioning to commanding, and from narrative to Bakhtin's theory of literary communication, and provided a view of the social functioning of texts, taking account of linguistic, literary and cultural elements.
Abstract: This study attempts to explore the ways in which language constitutes textual functions, ranging from mediation to manipulation, from questioning to commanding, and from narrative to Bakhtin's theory of literary communication The contributors provide a view of the social functioning of texts, taking account of linguistic, literary and cultural elements They bring together new perspectives on literary analysis and theory, on pragmatics and discourse analysis, as well as on text linguistics and reception theory Various types of text are examined - descriptions, travel accounts, dialogues, press columns, recipes, poetry and drama - including work by Brecht, Camus, Defoe, Frost, Harrison, Larkin, Plath and Shakespeare
TL;DR: The authors examines the overlap between film and philosophy in three distinct ways: epistemological issues in film-making and viewing; aesthetic theory and film; and film as a medium of philosophical expression.
Abstract: Examines the overlap between film and philosophy in three distinct ways: epistemological issues in film-making and viewing; aesthetic theory and film; and film as a medium of philosophical expression.
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