Search results for " Aesthetics"
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Verkörperung: Bild und Experiment bei Edgar Wind und die aktuelle Lage der morphologischen Forschung
2021
Edgar Wind’s The Experiment and Metaphysics examines, in the sense of Goethe’s morphological project, the common structures of scientific and artistic thinking in the light of the reflective value of the image and the technological processes of research and construction of reality. In Wind’s philosophy of em- bodiment the image plays a role in the artistic field comparable to the function of experiments in science. The picture is neither a ‘copy’ nor just a ‘part’ of reality, but rather an ‘embodiment’: at the same time the ‘result’ of human activity and a ‘condition’ for all interpretation of the world. It opens up as an embodiment to a temporality which is not just linear but ‘configured’…
La costruzione del concetto di omologia e i vincoli materiali della forma
2016
Il concetto di omologia riveste un ruolo centrale nella biologia teoretica contemporanea perché attorno ad esso e per suo tramite trovano articolazione numerosi progetti di ricerca miranti a ripensare la centralità dell’organismo, i suoi percorsi evolutivi e il significato della sua interazione con la realtà ambientale. La rete di omologie che tesse l’organismo permette di strutturarne e canalizzarne le innovazioni morfologiche e funzionali. Appunto questa componente sistemica rende dunque l’omologia un concetto fondamentale per una considerazione dinamica della forma vivente, come quella cui mira un’estetica che non intenda limitarsi a indagare sull’atteggiamento estetico e sulle produzion…
Nuovi media, nuova estetica?
2015
il saggio vuole verificare quale delle tradizionali definizioni di estetica (teoria della bellezza, teoria della sensibilità, filosofia dell’arte) sia ancora valida nell’età dei nuovi media. Attraverso l’analisi di alcuni testi di Walter Benjamin vengono individuati alcuni concetti (“montaggio”, “innervazione”, “aura-choc”) che trovano riscontro nelle teorie dei massmediologi contemporanei (McLuhan, De Kerckhove, Ortoleva). In particolare il concetto di “innervazione” ha trovato esito in quel “corpo tecnologico” (oggetto di varie performance artistiche) in cui medium tecnico e corpo umano si integrano. Il potenziamento comunicativo e percettivo apportato nel corpo umano dai dispositivi digi…
Niche
2020
No concept in ecology has been more variously defined or more universally confused than ‘niche’.
Orfeo Boselli e la “nobiltà” della scultura
2002
Orfeo Boselli, scultore, teorico e restauratore, non ha lasciato significativa traccia di sé in nessuno dei campi in cui ebbe modo di cimentarsi e persino delle sue vicende biografiche e della sua produzione artistica si hanno notizie frammentarie. Sebbene il suo nome compaia in diversi testi di critica d’arte, la sua figura scivola silenziosa nel panorama dell’estetica seicentesca e, a tutt’oggi, non esistono opere monografiche che valorizzino il ruolo, certamente non secondario, che questo scultore, considerato “minore” dagli storici dell’arte, svolse nel dibattito teorico del suo tempo. Le Osservazioni della scoltura antica si inseriscono nella tradizione avviata dai teorici del Quattroc…
Corticotomy-assisted orthodontics
2011
The use of orthodontic treatment in adult patients is becoming more common and these patients have different requirements specially regarding duration of treatment and facial and dental aesthetics. Alveolar corticotomy is an effective means of accelerating orthodontic treatment. This literature revision include an historical background, biological and orthodontic fundamentals and the most significant clinical applications of this technique. Orthodontic treatment time is reduced with this technique to one-third of that in conventional orthodontics. Alveolar bone grafting of labial and palatal/lingual surfaces ensures root coverage as the dental arch is expanded. Corticotomy-assisted orthodon…
Dentofacial aesthetics and quality of life
2007
This article reviews, from the socio-psychological perspective on physical attractiveness, recent research on the psychosocial impacts of dental aesthetics. Research on personal impression forming suggests that visual perceptions of detrimental dental conditions might lead to conclusions about social impairments of the target person. Consumers conform considerably with professional assessment of dental aesthetics. Psychosocial impacts of dental appearance in childhood include teasing by peers. Existing research suggests that dental aesthetics contributes to psychosocial well-being of both children and adults. The concept of public self-consciousness is introduced for explaining differences …
Creativity and Aesthetic Experience: The Problem of the Possibility of Beauty and Sensitiveness
2004
1. CREATIVITY, POETICS AND AESTHETICS Creativity may be regarded as one of the most complicated primary categories of aesthetics, and one that is most closely connected with such traditional aesthetic categories as beauty, for instance. The fulfilment of creative work is most visible in a work of art and refers to aesthetics as a sphere of expression/manifestation. Any discussion between an artist and an art philosopher or an art critic turns into a contention of a sort concerning the question of what comes first – manifestation or perception and evaluation. The view that creative work is feasible in any sphere of cultural activity as well as in science and technology, used to predominate i…
The Disorienting Aesthetics of Mashed-Up Anthropocene Environments
2022
This paper describes the disorienting aesthetics of some environments that are characteristic of the Anthropocene. We refer to these environments as 'mashed-up' and present three dimensions - phenomenological, epistemological and narrative - of the aesthetic disorientation they can trigger. We then advance the suggestion that a rich, nuanced and meaningful aesthetic experience of mashed-up Anthropocene environments (MAEs) calls for a mode of appreciation grounded on performative practices of aesthetic familiarisation with particular MAEs and entities and processes thereof. Familiarisation with MAEs, we further note, can have disorienting codas of its own. It can reveal and highlight, rather…