Search Results - "The Journal of aesthetics and art criticism"

Toward a Communitarian Theory of Aesthetic Value by Riggle, Nick

“…Abstract Our paradigms of aesthetic value condition the philosophical questions we pose and hope to answer about it. Theories of aesthetic value are typically…”
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Stakeholders and Experts in Culinary Cultural Heritage by Borghini, Andrea, Ravasio, Matteo, Baldini, Andrea Lorenzo

“…This article is about culinary authenticity as a cultural heritage issue. Our purpose is to establish a distinction between experts and stakeholders that, as…”
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The Aesthetic Mediation of Cultural Memory: Two Case Studies from Papua New Guinea and Kimberley, Australia by Mortu, Ancuta

“…ABSTRACT I offer an analysis of the role of aesthetic value in the formation of cultural memory. More specifically, I examine how cultural memory is formed…”
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Apophatic Beauty in the Hippias Major and the Symposium by Wesselinoff, Catherine

“…Abstract Plato’s discourse on beauty in the Hippias Major and the Symposium is distinctly apophatic in nature. Plato describes beauty in terms of what it is…”
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Debates on Culinary Norms by Atencia-Linares, Paloma, Sebastián, Miguel Ángel

“…We often witness heated disputes concerning what counts as good eating or correct ways of cooking this or that meal or dish. These disagreements presuppose…”
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Imagining Dinosaurs by Xhignesse, Michel-Antoine

“…ABSTRACT There is a tendency to take mounted dinosaur skeletons at face value, as the raw data on which the science of paleontology is founded. But the truth…”
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How Do You Solve a Problem like DALL-E 2? by Wojtkiewicz, Kathryn

“…Abstract The arrival of image-making generative artificial intelligence (AI) programs has been met with a broad rebuke: to many, it feels inherently wrong to…”
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Type Realism Reconsidered by Irmak, Nurbay

“…Abstract Realism about types is the view that types are abstract and repeatable objects. Although type realists seem to agree that types, unlike properties,…”
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Take a Chance on Me: Aleatory Poetry, Generative AI, and the External Demarcation Problem by Chen, Melvin

“…Abstract What is it in virtue of which any poetic output will be included or excluded from the category of art? I will first identify the external demarcation…”
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Bearing Witness and Creative Activism by Bacharach, Sondra

“…Abstract In this article, I explore the relationship between witness-bearing arts as a form of creative activism designed to respond to social injustices. In…”
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Kant’s (Moderate) Musical Antiformalism: A Reply to Sousa by Young, James O

“…I thank Tiago Sousa for his thoughtful comments on Young (2020, 2021). I am grateful for the opportunity to revisit Kant’s thoughts on music, which I think I…”
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Literary Indiscernibles, Referential Forgery, and the Possibility of Allographic Art by Spinella, Jake

“…Abstract Peter Lamarque, in chapter 4 of his 2010 book Work and Object, argues that certain art forms, like music and literature, are such that there can be no…”
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Nested Types, Modal Claims and Musical Works. Another Go by Puy, Nemesio García-Carril

“…I have recently defended two ideas (Puy 2022a). The first is that our modal claims about musical works do not imply that they are modally flexible entities,…”
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Being in a Horror Movie by Falconer, Pete

“…Abstract This article takes as its starting point a recurring complaint in the popular reception of horror movies: that the characters in them behave…”
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Te heahea me ngā toi, te hikohiko: Productive Idiocy, mātauranga Māori and Art-activism Strategies in Aotearoa/New Zealand by Harvey, Mark

“…Abstract This article explores what it can mean to navigate notions of productive idiocy with aspects of mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge), through some…”
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Artistic, Artworld, and Aesthetic Disobedience by Burgos, Adam, Lintott, Sheila

“…Abstract Jonathan Neufeld proposes a concept of aesthetic disobedience that parallels the political concept of civil disobedience articulated by John Rawls in…”
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Some Considerations Regarding Adornment, the Gender “Binary,” and Gender Expression by Cray, Wesley D

“…Stephen Davies’s Adornment lays an admirable foundation upon which much fruitful philosophical discussion about the topic of adornment can—and likely, will—be…”
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Mental Imagery and Poetry by Liu, Michelle

“…Abstract Poetry evokes mental imagery in its readers. But how is mental imagery precisely related to poetry? This article provides a systematic treatment. It…”
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The Role of Teleological Thinking in Judgments of Persistence of Musical Works by Mikalonytė, Elzė Sigutė, Dranseika, Vilius

“…Abstract In his article “The Ontology of Musical Versions: Introducing the Hypothesis of Nested Types,” Nemesio Puy raises a hypothesis that continuity of the…”
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Rethinking Low, Middle, and High Art by Lau, Ting Cho

“…Abstract What distinguishes middle, low, and high art? In this article, I give an ameliorative analysis of these concepts. On what I call the Capacity View,…”
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