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8Staying in touchIn Garry Hagberg (ed.), Art and Ethical Criticism, Wiley-blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains sections titled: Three Examples Sameness of Experience Touch, Contact, Nearness, Presence Wright's Windows.
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64Real Old ThingsBritish Journal of Aesthetics 56 (3): 219-231. 2016.Although we experience many cultural artifacts by way of reproductions, there remains a particular thrill in experiencing genuine objects—‘real things’. I argue that genuineness is a property that possesses many dimensions of value, including aesthetic value. Typically, aesthetic qualities are perceptual, but genuineness is not a perceptual property. I investigate the aesthetic dimensions of genuineness by considering the role of touch in encounters with old things, using the example of an ancie…Read more
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Joseph H. Kupfer, Experience As Art: Aesthetics in Everyday Life (review)Philosophy in Review 4 266-267. 1984.
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55Fear and Disgust: the Sublime and the SublateRevue Internationale de Philosophie 250 (4): 367-379. 2009.
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14Instruments of the eye: Shortcuts to perspectiveJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 47 (2): 139-146. 1989.
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82Disgust and AestheticsPhilosophy Compass 7 (11): 753-761. 2012.Disgust is an emotion that is visceral, reactive, and uncomfortable. It is also purposively aroused by art in ways that contribute substantially to the meaning of a work. In such cases “aesthetic disgust” is a component of understanding and appreciation. Disgust comes in many varieties, including the humorous, the horrid, and the tragic. The responses it elicits can be strong or subtle, but few are actually pleasant. Therefore aesthetic disgust raises an ancient question: how is it that emotions…Read more
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50Making sense of taste: food & philosophyCornell University Press. 1999.Korsmeyer (philosophy, State U. of New York-Buffalo) disagrees with the centuries of philosophers before her that taste is beneath the dignity of the field. She explores how it gained such a low esteem, parallels between notions of aesthetic and gustatory taste, how the sense works scientifically, the multiple components of the experience, its various meanings in art and literature, and its sacred dimension. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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88Disputing tasteThe Philosophers' Magazine 45 70-76. 2009.The sense of taste falls low on the hierarchy of the senses because it seems a poor conduit for knowledge of the external world; it directs attention inward rather than outward; its pleasures are sensuous and bodily, prone to overindulgence that distracts from higher human endeavours; and its objects are at best merely pleasant, not of the highest aesthetic value. Such is the traditional assessment; now let us analyse its justice
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35AESTHETICS: Perceptions, Pleasures, Arts: Considering AestheticsIn Janet A. Kourany (ed.), Philosophy in a Feminist Voice: Critiques and Reconstructions, Princeton University Press. pp. 145-172. 1997.
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11Disputing tasteThe Philosophers' Magazine 45 70-76. 2009.The sense of taste falls low on the hierarchy of the senses because it seems a poor conduit for knowledge of the external world; it directs attention inward rather than outward; its pleasures are sensuous and bodily, prone to overindulgence that distracts from higher human endeavours; and its objects are at best merely pleasant, not of the highest aesthetic value. Such is the traditional assessment; now let us analyse its justice.
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3Joseph H. Kupfer, Experience As Art: Aesthetics in Everyday Life Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 4 (6): 266-267. 1984.
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55Making Sense of Taste: Food and PhilosophyJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 59 (4): 421-423. 2001.
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6Gender and aesthetics: an introductionRoutledge. 2004.This fully illustrated introductory text looks at the key theories and thinkers within art from a philosophical viewpoint. Focusing on the role gender plays, the book covers the most pertinent topics within feminist aesthetics.
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6Beauty UnlimitedIndiana University Press. 2012.Emphasizing the human body in all of its forms, Beauty Unlimited expands the boundaries of what is meant by beauty both geographically and aesthetically. Peg Zeglin Brand and an international group of contributors interrogate the body and the meaning of physical beauty in this multidisciplinary volume. This striking and provocative book explores the history of bodily beautification; the physicality of socially or culturally determined choices of beautification; the interplay of gender, race, cla…Read more
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20On Distinguishing "Aesthetic" from "Artistic"The Journal of Aesthetic Education 11 (4): 45. 1977.
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173Gender and Aesthetics: An IntroductionRoutledge. 2004.Feminist approaches to art are extremely influential and widely studied across a variety of disciplines, including art theory, cultural and visual studies, and philosophy. Gender and Aesthetics is an introduction to the major theories and thinkers within art and aesthetics from a philosophical perspective, carefully introducing and examining the role that gender plays in forming ideas about art. It is ideal for anyone coming to the topic for the first time. Organized thematically, the book intro…Read more
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159Aesthetics: The Big Questions (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 1998.Philosophers have considered questions raised by the nature of art, of beauty, and critical appreciation since ancient times, and the discipline of aesthetics has a long tradition that stretches from Plato to the present
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14Feminism and Traditional AestheticsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 48 (4): 277-428. 1990.This is the first feminist special issue of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. Introduction written by Brand [Weiser] and Korsmeyer with essays by Hilde Hein, Paul Mattick, Jr., Timothy Gould, Joanne B. Waugh, Joseph Margolis, Mary Devereaux, Noel Carroll, Flo Leibowitz, Anita Silvers, Elizabeth Ann Dobie, Renee Cox, and Ellen Handler Spitz. A fuller publication from Indiana University Press followed in 1995 edited by Brand [Weiser] and Korsmeyer entitled, Feminism and Tradition in Aes…Read more
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65Aesthetics in Feminist Perspective (edited book)Indiana University Press. 1993."A first-rate introduction to the field, accessible to scholars working from a variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. Highly recommended... " —Choice "... offers both broad theoretical considerations and applications to specific art forms, diverse methodological perspectives, and healthy debate among the contributors.... [an] outstanding volume."—Philosophy and Literature "... this volume represents an eloquent and enlightened attempt to reconceptualize the field of aesthetic theo…Read more
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380IntroductionJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 48 (4): 277-280. 1990.This is the co-authored--with Carolyn Korsmeyer--Introduction to the first published feminist scholarship in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (Volume 48, Number 4, Fall 1990). Contributors included Hilde Hein, Paul Mattick, Jr., Timothy Gould, Joanne B. Waugh, Joseph Margolis, Mary Devereaux, Noel Carroll, Flo Leibowitz, Anita Silvers, Elizabeth Ann Dobie, Renee Cox, and Ellen Handler Spitz. All essays were subsequently published in an expanded book version entitled, Feminism and Trad…Read more
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