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Degeneration
2020
Complex and in many ways enlightening, the history of this concept presents the succession of an eighteenth-century phase in which the descriptive and structural meaning prevails, and of an nineteenth-twentieth-century phase in which, vice versa, the concept is charged with highly negative evaluative meanings, to the point of becoming salient in Nazi ideology as the indicator of an anti-model to be annihilated in the name of a totalitarian program connoted at the same time and alternatively in a biological-racial and artistic-stylistic sense.
Architettura in alzato. Questioni di territorio, paesaggio, ambiente
2021
Negata alla tipologia l’architettura del Sud nel saggio riconosce una specifica identità e perfetta eccezionalità nell’essenza del luogo. Se la facciata istituisce un rapporto con l’estetica del paesaggio, i temi che essa sottende definiscono altre significative relazioni. L’ordinamento logico delle membrature, la chiarezza geometrica e il rigore dei rapporti rimandano ad una architettura che si misura, ed è misura stessa, del territorio e della sua morfologia. A sua volta, lo spessore della facciata esprime la relazione con l’ambiente e interpreta in maniera poetica i condizionamenti climatici, intervenendo sul controllo della luce, sui vuoti nei paramenti murari, sulla determinazione dell…
Three steps to maintain predictable interdental papilla and gingiva emergence profiles in immediate implant placement. A 3-year follow-up case report
2018
We present a case that describes a three-step clinical technique to provide guidelines to replace fractured teeth with immediate implant placement using the same dental structure as a temporary crown and a regenerative approach. This approach predictably maintains the interdental papilla and gingiva emergence profile to ensure a favorable cosmetic result. A 3-year follow-up has shown good clinical outcomes and stability in crestal bone levels. Consequently, this is an innovative way to do temporary crown and design restorations in everyday clinical practice. Key words:Interdental papilla, dental implant, inmmediate implant, gingival aesthetics, dental aesthetics.
The development of aesthetic responses to music and their underlying neural and psychological mechanisms.
2011
In the field of psychology, the first studies in experimental aesthetics were conducted approximately 140 years ago. Since then, research has mainly concentrated on aesthetic responses to visual art. Both the aesthetic experience of music and, especially, its development have received rather limited attention. Moreover, until now, very little attention has been paid to the investigation of the aesthetic experience of music using neuroscientific methods. Aesthetic experiences are multidimensional and include inter alia sensory, perceptual, affective, and cognitive components. Aesthetic processes are usually experienced as pleasing and rewarding and are, thus, important and valuable experienc…
Showing and Saying. An Aesthetic Difference
2013
Wittgenstein’s distinction between saying and showing and the associated thesis, what can be shown cannot be said, were crucial to his first philosophy, persisted throughout the evolution of his whole thought and played a key role in his views on aesthetics. The objective of art is access to the mystical, forcing us to become aware of the uniqueness of our own experience and life. When art is good is a perfect expression and the work of art becomes like a tautology. An important consequence of this understanding of art is the irreducibility of the aesthetic to the scientific perspective.
Food: Ordinary Practice or Extraordinary Experience?
2021
Food and the practice of cooking hold a privileged place in contemporary aesthetics, as attested by the extensive literature that has been devoted to this topic. Food has been addressed in both Anglo-American and European studies from multiple points of view, including a cognitivist, pragmatist, phenomenological, everyday and somaesthetic perspective. In this essay I will try to identify a path that allows us to hold together these readings through the ordinary-extraordinary dichotomy. First, I shall analyze food through the lens of the extraordinary, taking into consideration some examples in which food is presented as a true work of art in museums or as an exceptional experience in increa…
Everyday Aesthetics: European Perspectives
2021
authors reflect how European and Europe-inspired thinking has affected and developed further the field of Everyday Aesthetics. The articles of the special issue are presented through their main themes and how they contribute to the contemporary discussions of the field.
Ornamenti un Simetrijas: Ornamentālo Rakstu Zīmju Valoda (intervija ar Modri Tenisonu)
2010
Ornaments and Symmetry: Language of Signs of Ornamental Tracery (see interview with Modris Tenisons http://www.blip.tv/file/3173653) In his first interview Modris Tenisons explains language of ornamentalistic signs for national ornamental belts using his discovered law of sieve displacement, which gives base duality element in ornamentalistic signs, and routine how to generate 240 elements of signs from 10 “seeds of chaos” sufficient to produce all ornametal belts of first order. He tells also about his discoverd 16 sign alphabet, that does the same. Pirmajā mutvārdu liecinājumā Modris Tenisons stāsta par ornamentālo rakstu zīmju veidošanās likumsakarībām sakrustojot divu krāsu diegus audum…
Introduction
2020
Starting from Goethe. Currently, there exists no discipline whose specific boundaries could be defined as MORPHOLOGY. Nevertheless, it is possible to trace out its history in ample terms and to define its scope broadly by understanding it as the place where the semantics of FORMS are defined and where they are connected to a reference IMAGE. The central link in the field of MORPHOLOGY is FORM-IMAGE, and it refers to those dynamics of the FORM and to the DYNAMIC SYSTEMS that have taken hold in late modernity and that continue to grow today.
Forma esteriore e vita interiore: Ernst Haeckel e la morfologia del vivente
2016
Ernst Haeckel, scienziato per professione e artista per passione, mise l’arte a disposizione delle ricerche morfologiche, proponendo una scienza unitaria del vivente, in grado di comprendere l’organismo nella sua totalità funzionale ed estetica. Nei tre saggi qui raccolti egli indaga la forma esteriore dei viventi, cogliendo in essa l’indicazione di una vita interiore, una vis plastica che anima la natura in ogni sua manifestazione, dà impulso alla differenziazione funzionale e sancisce la continuità fra organico e inorganico. Espressioni come “vita dei cristalli” e “anima cellulare” appaiono qui prive di contraddizione e la natura, creatrice inconscia di forme, diviene essa stessa un’opera…