Tag: "aesthetics"

Did Duchamp’s Urinal Flush Away Art?

Roy Turner scorns the fact that after Duchamp, critics have questioned the status of ‘traditional’ Western art, making the act of designation the sole determinant of art.
[Issue 67: May/June 2008: Articles]

The Structure of Musical Revolutions

Edward Slowik investigates Kuhn’s philosophy of science through an analogy.
[Issue 59: January/February 2007: Science Connections]

Performance Is The Thing

Dzifa Benson is compelled to consider the nature of performance.
[Issue 57: September/October 2006: The Arts]

Dasein And The Arts

So how do you apply philosophical principles to think about art? An example can be derived from an unlikely source. Reneh Karamians uses Heidegger’s philosophy as an illustration of how to understand aesthetic experience.
[Issue 57: September/October 2006: The Arts]

Art and Soul

by Rick Lewis
[Issue 57: September/October 2006: Editorial]

Music & Emotion

Why do we feel emotion when listening to music? Ben Ushedo goes beyond emotivist and cognitivist approaches to answer this intriguing question.
[Issue 57: September/October 2006: The Arts]

Art (and Philosophy) and the Ultimate Aims of Human Life

Raymond Tallis is hungry to expand human consciousness through art.
[Issue 57: September/October 2006: The Arts]

Aesthetics and Philosophy: A Match Made in Heaven?

To introduce our art issue, Anja Steinbauer describes the troubled relationship between art and theory.
[Issue 57: September/October 2006: The Arts]

How Do Pictures Represent?

Marek Soszynski considers whether it couldn’t look like resemblance after all.
[Issue 57: September/October 2006: The Arts]

Art As Sensation: Four Painters As Philosophers Of Art

Patricia Railing explains the philosophical ideas behind some of abstract art’s most famous abstractions.
[Issue 57: September/October 2006: The Arts]