Dimensions of Aesthetic Encounters: Perception, Interpretation, and the Signs of Art

Author:   Robert E. Innis
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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9781438488240


Pages:   214
Publication Date:   02 October 2022
Format:   Paperback
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Dimensions of Aesthetic Encounters: Perception, Interpretation, and the Signs of Art


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"We encounter in our lives things and situations that elicit from us special forms of attention. They affect and inform us in various ways, drawing us in and holding us in their grasp or turning us away. Works of art of all sorts, and nature in its myriad manifestations, exemplify these luring and repelling qualities and potencies. Dimensions of Aesthetic Encounters explores central perceptual, interpretative, and semiotic dimensions of these encounters, combining a wide range of examples and intellectual resources from pragmatist, hermeneutical, and semiotic frameworks. Practicing a kind of ""method of rotation"" Robert E. Innis breaks down barriers in aesthetic theory and shows their complementary powers. Recurring themes link each chapter, throwing a powerful light on aesthetic encounters by foregrounding such pivotal notions as play, fundedness and the role of memory, the defining quality of an artwork, energies of objects, potencies, rhythm, form, presentational abstraction, medium, symbolization, intuition, role of the body, and the non-argumentative nature of art."

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Author:   Robert E. Innis
Publisher:   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:  

9781438488240


ISBN 10:   1438488246
Pages:   214
Publication Date:   02 October 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Dimensions of an Aesthetic Encounter: Encountering Giorgione's Sunset 2. Energies of Objects: Between Dewey and Langer 3. Quality and the Theory of Signs: Dewey's Peircean Aesthetics 4. Aesthetic Naturalism and the ""Ways of Art"": Linking Dewey and Samuel Alexander 5. Between Nature and Art: Analytical Exemplifications of Dewey's Aesthetics 6. Pragmatism and the Challenge of a Cosmopolitan Aesthetics: On Theory beyond Borders 7. Filling the Hole in Sense: Between Art and Philosophy References Index"

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This work draws you in and builds in nothing less than a dramatic manner. Innis displays a stunning range of erudition and even when dealing with technical or intricate topics he remains accessible and, more than this, engaging and quite memorable. - Vincent Colapietro, Penn State University


This work draws you in and builds in nothing less than a dramatic manner. Innis displays a stunning range of erudition and even when dealing with technical or intricate topics he remains accessible and, more than this, engaging and quite memorable. - Vincent Colapietro, Penn State University


Author Information

Robert E. Innis is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and former Obel Foundation Visiting Professor at Aalborg University in Denmark. His many books include Between Philosophy and Cultural Psychology.

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