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"The Bloomsbury companion to aesthetics" presents a practical study guide to emerging topics and art forms in aesthetics and the philosophy of art. Placing contemporary discussion in its historical context, this companion begins with an introduction to the history of aesthetics. Surveying the central topics, terms and figures and noting the changes in the roles the arts played over the centuries, it also tackles methodological issues, asking what the proper object of study in aesthetics is, and how we should go about studying it. Written by leading analytic philosophers in the field, chapters on "Core issues and art forms" cover four major topics : the definition of art and the ontology of art work ; aesthetic experience, aesthetic properties, and aesthetic and artistic value ; specific art forms including music, dance, theatre, the visual arts as a whole, and the various forms of popular art ; new areas in aesthetics and the philosophy of art, such as environmental aesthetics and global standpoint aesthetics, as well as other new directions the field is taking towards everyday aesthetics. Featuring a list of research resources and an extensive chronology of works dating from the fifth century BC to the 21st century, "The Bloomsbury companion to aesthetics" provides an engaging introduction to contemporary aesthetics.

Esthétique.

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This lively collection of essays explores the vital role of beauty in the human experience of place, interactions with other species, and contemplation of our own embodied lives. Devoting attention to themes such as global climate change, animal subjectivity, environmental justice and activism, and human moral responsibility for the environment, these contributions demonstrate that beauty is not only a meaningful dimension of our experience, but also a powerful strategy for inspiring cultural transformation. Taken as a whole, they underscore the ongoing relevance of aesthetics to the ecocritical project and the concern for beauty that motivates effective social and political engagement.

Esthétique --- Esthétique environnementale --- Beau (esthétique)

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Taste, like fashion, is usually thought to be capricious, but it is the outstanding feature of this book that it shows the extent to which artistic taste, the vogue for certain masters and the accomanying prejudice against others, is dependent on specific, clearly traceable factors. During much of the eighteenth century there was a very widespread acceptance of well defined standards of excellence in the Old Masters, but these were gradually eroded throughout the nineteenth century. Painters such as Piero della Francesca, Botticelli and other Italian pre-Raphaelites, Vermeer and El Greco, who had long been ignored or despised, were "rediscovered" with extreme enthusiasm ; others, such as Guido Reni, once numbered among thre greatest masters, were scornfully eliminated from the canon. Why ? This book sets out to investigate the causes of this phenomenon by looking at the process in strictly historical terms. Ruskin made a deliberate practice of "knocking down and putting up", but there were other more subtle influences : the parts played by dealers and financial speculation ; by scholars and collectors ; by religious, political and social affiliations ; by the organization of museums and exhibitions, and by the accidental accessibility of certain types of pictures as a result of wars and revolutions. Although "Rediscoveries in art" is concerned primarily with the hundred years between about 1780 and 1880, its implications are much wider. It is disturbing to realize the extent to which public appreciation is moulded by circumstance, and this thought-provoking book opens many important questions in its examination of these perennial fluctuations in taste.

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