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Mary Wiseman

Columbia University
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Columbia University
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 1974
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Action
Aesthetics
Applied Ethics
  • All publications (46)
  • Tzvetan Todorov, Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogical Principle (review)
    Philosophy in Review 6 404-406. 1986.
  •  45
    Subversive Strategies in Contemporary Chinese Art (edited book)
    with Liu Yuedi
    Brill. 2011.
    How contemporary Chinese art is creating “a philosophy of life, a philosophy of politics, and a natural philosophy,” as artist Qiu Zhijie says it must, is explored in this collection of essays by philosophers and art historians from America and China
    Chinese Philosophy: Topics, MiscContemporary Chinese Philosophy, Misc
  •  54
    Gendered Bodies in Contemporary Chinese Art
    In Peg Brand Weiser (ed.), Beauty Unlimited, Indiana University Press. pp. 385-405. 2013.
    The idea of beauty in the West has often been connected with the idea of woman, whose beauty has been celebrated in sculptures of the nude since classical Greece and in paintings since the sixteenth century. the nude is not a genre in either traditional or contemporary Chinese art, however, and although there has been nakedness in the representations of the body in the contemporary art of China, its presence is marked by two characteristics that distance the Chinese naked body from the Western n…Read more
    The idea of beauty in the West has often been connected with the idea of woman, whose beauty has been celebrated in sculptures of the nude since classical Greece and in paintings since the sixteenth century. the nude is not a genre in either traditional or contemporary Chinese art, however, and although there has been nakedness in the representations of the body in the contemporary art of China, its presence is marked by two characteristics that distance the Chinese naked body from the Western nude.
    Philosophy, MiscBeautyAesthetic ValueTopics in AestheticsPhilosophy of Visual ArtChinese Philosophy,…Read more
    Philosophy, MiscBeautyAesthetic ValueTopics in AestheticsPhilosophy of Visual ArtChinese Philosophy, MiscFeminist Aesthetics
  •  86
    The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 54 (2): 197-198. 1996.
    Aesthetics
  •  103
    The Architecture of Deconstruction: Derrida's Haunt by Mark Wigley
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 53 (2): 211-212. 1995.
    AestheticsPhilosophy of Literature, Misc
  • Interpretation and the man
    In Christine M. Koggel & Andreea Ritivoi (eds.), Interpretation, Relativism, and Identity: Essays on the Philosophy of Michael Krausz, Lexington Books. 2018.
  •  67
    Ars Erotica: Sex and Somaesthetics in the Classical Arts of Love
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 80 (2): 255-258. 2022.
    Aesthetics
  •  78
    Steven Ungar, Roland Barthes: The Professor of Desire
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 43 (4): 415-418. 1985.
    Aesthetics
  •  86
    Klotz' Heinrich. The History of Postmodern Architecture
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 48 (2): 175-176. 1990.
    Aesthetics
  •  82
    W. J. T. Mitchell, on Narrative
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 41 (4): 456-461. 1983.
    Aesthetics
  •  73
    Laurie Schneider Adams, The Methodologies of Art: An Introduction
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 56 (3): 304-304. 1998.
    Aesthetics
  •  20
    A Grand Materialism in the New Art from China (edited book)
    Lexington Books. 2020.
    Material matters in new Chinese art, which presents its subjects through the directness and immediacy of its material. This book applies theories by Osborne and Danto to new Chinese art to show how artists are working below the level of language to make each work of art prove that it is art.
  •  50
    The Look of Reading: Book, Painting, Text
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 66 (4): 409-412. 2008.
    AestheticsPainting and Drawing
  •  5
    The Catholic Imagination
    Contemporary Aesthetics 16 (1). 2018.
    Aesthetics
  •  2
    Mud, a Comment
    Contemporary Aesthetics 15 (1). 2017.
  •  68
    Man, Eva Kit Wah, Bodies in China: Philosophy, Aesthetics, Gender, and Politics. State University of New York Press, 2017, XXV + 257 pp., 22 color illus., $52.00 cloth
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 76 (2): 240-243. 2018.
    AestheticsFeminist Aesthetics
  •  84
    Xu Bing: Tobacco Project, Duke/Shanghai/Virginia, 1999–2011 edited by ravenal, john b Xu Bing and Contemporary Chinese Art: Cultural and Philosophical Reflections edited by tsao, hsingyuan and roger t. ames
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 70 (4): 408-412. 2012.
    AestheticsHistory of Aesthetics
  •  159
    Titian's WomenDefining the Renaissance Virtuosa: Women Artists and the Language of Art History and Criticism
    with Rona Goffen and Fredrika H. Jacobs
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 58 (4): 420. 2000.
    Aesthetics
  •  192
    Modernity and the Classical Tradition: Architectural Essays 1980-1987Restructuring Architectural Theory
    with Alan Colquhoun, Marco Diani, and Catherine Ingraham
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 49 (3): 265. 1991.
    AestheticsPhilosophy of Specific Arts
  •  65
    The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist MythsHas Modernism Failed?
    Journal of Aesthetic Education 20 (3): 122. 1986.
  •  64
    Jizi and his art in contemporary China: unification
    Journal for Cultural Research 21 (1): 118-120. 2017.
    This is a book about the journey of a man, Jizi, whose goal was to make contemporary what is authentically Chinese and to do it in a way that speaks to an increasingly global audience. The first ha...
  • The Interpretation of the Categorical Imperative in the Ethics of C. I. Lewis
    Dissertation, Columbia University. 1974.
  • RA Sharpe, Contemporary Aesthetics: A Philosophical Analysis Reviewed by
    Philosophy in Review 4 (5): 219-221. 1984.
    History of Aesthetics
  • Cécile Cloutier and Calvin Seerveld, eds., Opuscula Aesthetica Nostra: A Volume of Essays on Aesthetics and the Arts in Canada Reviewed by
    Philosophy in Review 5 (7): 286-290. 1985.
    AestheticsHistory of Aesthetics
  •  55
    Kierkegaard and the Dialectics of Modernism (review)
    Philosophy and Literature 11 (2): 372-373. 1987.
    Philosophy of LiteraturePhilosophy of Literature, Misc
  • R.A. Sharpe, Contemporary Aesthetics: A Philosophical Analysis (review)
    Philosophy in Review 4 219-221. 1984.
    Aesthetic Cognition
  • Cécile Cloutier and Calvin Seerveld, eds., Opuscula Aesthetica Nostra: A Volume of Essays on Aesthetics and the Arts in Canada (review)
    Philosophy in Review 5 286-290. 1985.
    Aesthetics
  •  81
    The Subject in Question: The Languages of Theory and the Strategies of Fiction (review)
    Philosophy and Literature 8 (1): 130-131. 1984.
    Fiction, Misc
  •  143
    Vermeer and the art of silence
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 64 (3). 2006.
    Aesthetics
  •  310
    Practical principles
    Ethics 90 (1): 115-121. 1979.
    Value Theory, MiscellaneousRational RequirementsPratical Reason, Misc
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