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OverviewAlthough there are distinctly American artists—Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Grandma Moses, Thomas Hart Benton, and Andy Warhol, for example—very little attention has been devoted to formulating any distinctively American characteristics of aesthetic judgment and practice. This volume takes a step in this direction, presenting an introductory essay on the possibility of such a distinctly American tradition, and a collection of essays exploring particular examples from a variety of angles. Some of the essays in this collection extend pragmatist and process insights about the important place aesthetics has in molding and assessing experience. Other essays examine the place of American aesthetics in relation to such particular forms of art as painting, literature, music, and film. Three essays attend to the aesthetic aspects of a flourishing life. In each of the essays, American aesthetics is understood to arise out of deeply felt personal, historical, and cultural backgrounds. Consequently, not only are such relatively abstract notions as harmony, fit, elegance, proportion, and the like involved in aesthetic judgment, but also religious, political, and social factors become embroiled in aesthetic discernment. Thus the ongoing pattern of American aesthetics is shown to be distinguishable from such other varieties of aesthetic thought as analytic aesthetics, New Criticism, and postmodern approaches to aesthetics. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Walter B. Gulick , Gary SlaterPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438478586ISBN 10: 1438478585 Pages: 428 Publication Date: 02 January 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Part I: Introduction 1. Toward an American Aesthetics Walter B. Gulick Part II: Philosophical Contributions to American Aesthetics from the Past 2. The Primacy of Aesthetic Judgments: Emerson's Deontological-Transcendentalist Account of Tragedy Jacob L. Goodson 3. Peirce and Edwards on the Argument from Beauty Michael L. Raposa 4. A Semeiotic Account of Paintings as Pure Icons that Communicate Beautiful Feelings David Rohr 5. The Pragmatist Aesthetics of William James Richard Shusterman 6. Between Nature and Art: Some Analytical Exemplifications of Dewey's Aesthetics Robert E. Innis Part III: American Aesthetics: Contemporary Theoretical Contributions 7. Axiological Landscape Theory: Uniting Aesthetics, Ethics, and Inquiry Wesley J. Wildman 8. Experience and Signs: Toward a Pragmatist Literary Criticism Nicholas Gaskill 9. Music, Time, and the Egress of Possibility Randall E. Auxier 10. Harmony, Existence, and the Aesthetic Robert Cummings Neville 11. Historical-Aesthetic Complementarity: An American Philosophical Contribution to the Study of Religion Gary Slater Part IV: Applying American Aesthetic Theory to Practice 12. An Exemplary Critic in the Tradition of American Aesthetics: Harold Rosenberg Leanne Gilbertson and Walter B. Gulick 13. Experiential Immersions in Beauty: A Confluence of James Turrell's Light Spaces and Whitehead's Aesthetics Vaughan Durkee McTernan 14. Dialogue: From Rich Experience to Minimalist Expression Corey Drieth and Walter B. Gulick 15. The Fabric of Thirdness: A Concert Pianist's Peircean Interpretation of Performance Arthur Stewart 16. Inspiring Singers toward Emotional Communication through Aesthetic Discovery Steven Hart 17. Budd Boetticher's Transcendental Westerns, or, Schrader, Bazin, Sartre, and Neville Walk into a Saloon James McLachlan Part V: Aesthetic Aspects of a Flourishing Life 18. Resolving the Tension of Everyday Aesthetics in a Deweyan Way Thomas Leddy 19. The Struggle for Centering Things in an Age of Consumerism David Strong 20. The Dynamics of Selving and the Aesthetics of Ecstatic Naturalism Robert S. Corrington List of Contributors IndexReviewsAuthor InformationWalter B. Gulick is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Humanities, and Religious Studies at Montana State University Billings. Gary Slater is Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious and Theological Studies at St. Edward's University and the author of C.S. Peirce and the Nested Continua Model of Religious Interpretation. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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