Search results for "Everyday Aesthetics"
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Estetica e vita quotidiana. Prospettive di ricercar-azione negli studi umanistici
2020
Gli studi umanistici sono in crisi ormai da diversi anni poiché in una società incentrata sul profitto questo ramo di studi appare perdente. Tuttavia, la causa non risiede nell’inutilità degli studi umanistici, ma nello iato esistente tra la cultura umanistica e quella scientifica e tecnologica, che è alla base dell’economia. Se si comprende che la prima può servire da volano alla seconda, le scienze umane possono tornare a essere il fulcro di una progettualità finalizzata al benessere collettivo e diventare un social spin-off incentrato sui valori dell’humanitas. In questa direzione l’estetica, intesa come una filosofia del sentire e dell’esperienza quotidiana, può offrire nuovi orizzonti …
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…
Dall’iperestetica all’anestetica: la negazione dell’umano nella società dell’apparenza
2021
Viviamo nella “società dell’immagine” che ottunde la sensibilità e produce indifferenza. Il saggio mette a fuoco la ricerca ossessiva di una bellezza superficiale e apparente in ogni ambito della vita quotidiana e la conseguente perdita dei valori morali. Per contrastare questa anestetizzazione dovuta all’esasperata tendenza all’eccesso e al superamento dei limiti del giusto, del necessario, del conveniente e del bello, il saggio propone di recuperare l’antica dimensione etico-estetica del bello in linea con alcuni interessi dell’Everyday Aesthetics. We live in the "society of the image" that obtunds sensitivity and produces indifference. The essay focuses on the obsessive search for a shal…
Democratic values in the aesthetics of classic American pragmatism
2011
Abstract In the present paper an interpretation of the political dimension of pragmatic aesthetic reflection is proposed. The interconnection between politics and aesthetics in three classic American pragmatists: William James (1842–1910), John Dewey (1859–1952), and George Herbert Mead (1863–1931) is evoked. The author claims that by emphasizing the role of democratic values in philosophy and life, the classic American pragmatists encroach upon the field of the arts and aesthetics. Their emphasis put upon individual activity, free expression of thoughts, plurality of the forms of expression, and acceptance of criticism as a tool helping create better solutions in human cooperation can easi…
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…
Estetica e oggetti quotidiani ?
2014
According to Hegel and to the romantic theory, Aesthetics is a philosophy of art. However, nowadays we can experience the beauty not only with art, but also with every product (fashion, videogames, cars, technological products). So we can query if the realm of aesthetics should hold also everyday products and how this could transform the traditional aesthetic categories.This essay aim to answer these questions. It aim furthermore to sketch the product’s theoretical foundations referring to national and international debate which have dealt with everyday aesthetics according to different point of view.
Incursioni dello straordinario nell’ordinario
2021
Si tratta di un commento al volume di Salvatore Settis, "Incursioni. Arte contemporanea e tradizione", Feltrinelli, 2020. La nota si inserisce in un dialogo a più voci a cura di Monica Centanni e Giuseppe Pucci dal titolo "Una lettura corale di: Salvatore Settis, Incursioni. Arte contemporanea e tradizione, Feltrinelli, 2020" La nota rilegge il volume di Settis mettendo a fuoco due autori: Bill Viola e Giuseppe Penone e collega questi artisti a una riflessione filosofica più ampia che mira a cogliere lo straordinario dell'arte e della natura nella vita di ogni giorno.
Decorum. An ancient idea of everyday aesthetics
2021
Everyday Aesthetics was born in the 21ST Century as a sub-discipline of Anglo-American Aesthetics and it has spread in the international debate. However, the contribute of historical perspective has not properly explored yet. Is it possible to trace the history of everyday aesthetics before the official birth of this discipline? I will try and give you an affirmative answer by focusing on an exemplary category: that of the decorum. Using the history of ideas (W. Tatatrkiewicz), I will analyse the Greek concept of prepon and the similar Latin concepts of decorum which express the idea of "convenience" or "fitness to purpose" in the ethical and rhetorical sphere. Later I will analyse the evol…
Carceral Aesthetics. Art and Everyday Life in Prison
2021
The paper aims to focus on everyday life in prison following a double perspective, a historical and a contemporary one. First, the historical phenomenon of prison graffiti will be investigated in connection with one case study: the graffiti in the prisons of the Holy Office in Palermo. Subsequently, the effect of making art in today’s prisons both on space and on inmate life will be taken into account. The overall aim of this twofold reading is to show to what extent making art in prison can be seen as a strategy of activation of those relational and familiarizing processes which bestow an aesthetic value on everyday life.
“Fare arte” per fare comunità. Strategie culturali per un nuovo umanesimo
2020
Il ripensamento della società contemporanea passa attraverso un nuovo umanesimo in cui “facendo arte” insieme gli individui si riconoscono come comunità sulla base di principi e valori condivisi. Mettendo a fuoco un concetto di arte inteso come esperienza (J. Dewey) e come cura, in linea con le teorie dell’Everyday Aesthetics e con la teoria dell’“artification” dell’etologa Ellen Dissanayake, il lavoro si propone di tracciare alcune linee interpretative che, a partire dalle criticità emerse con l’emergenza sanitaria del coronavirus, valorizzino l’arte come strategia per fare comunità.