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'Contemplating Art' is a compendium of writings by one of the leading figures in aesthetics, Jerrold Levinson. The 24 essays range over issues in general aesthetics and those relating to specific arts - in particular music, film, and literature.

Aesthetics. --- Art --- Arts. --- Philosophy. --- Aesthetics --- Arts --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Art and philosophy --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Occidental --- Arts, Western --- Fine arts --- Humanities --- Esthetics --- Taste (Aesthetics) --- Philosophy --- Criticism --- Literature --- Proportion --- Symmetry --- Analysis, interpretation, appreciation --- Psychology --- Arts, Primitive --- Radio broadcasting Aesthetics --- Art - Philosophy.

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The essays in this book explore the ancient affinity between the mathematical and the aesthetic, focusing on the fundamental connections between these two modes of reasoning and communicating. From historical, philosophical and psychological perspectives, with particular attention to certain mathematical areas such as geometry and analysis, the authors examine the ways in which the aesthetic is ever present in mathematical thinking and contributes to the growth and value of mathematical knowledge. This book includes the following essays: • A Historical Gaze at the Mathematical Aesthetic, by Nathalie Sinclair and David Pimm • Aesthetics for the Working Mathematician, by Jonathan M. Borwein • Beauty and Truth in Mathematics, by Doris Schattschneider • Experiencing Meanings in Geometry, by David W. Henderson and Daina Taimina • The Aesthetic Sensibilities of Mathematicians, by Nathalie Sinclair • The Meaning of Pattern, by Martin Schiralli • Mathematics, Aesthetics and Being Human, by William Higginson • Mechanism and Magic in the Psychology of Dynamic Geometry, by R. Nicholas Jackiw • Drawing on the Image in Mathematics and Art, by David Pimm • Sensible Objects, by Dick Tahta • Aesthetics and the ‘Mathematical Mind’, by David Pimm and Nathalie Sinclair.

7.01 --- 72.01 --- Mathematics. --- Aesthetics. --- 51 --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Esthetics --- Taste (Aesthetics) --- Philosophy --- Art --- Criticism --- Literature --- Proportion --- Symmetry --- Math --- Science --- Kunst (esthetica) --- Kunstesthetica --- Architectuur (esthetica) --- Architectuuresthetica --- Mathematica --- Wiskunde --- Psychology --- Aesthetics --- Mathematics --- Radio broadcasting Aesthetics

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Americans agree about government arts funding in the way the women in the old joke agree about the food at the wedding: it's terrible--and such small portions! Americans typically either want to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts, or they believe that public arts funding should be dramatically increased because the arts cannot survive in the free market. It would take a lover of the arts who is also a libertarian economist to bridge such a gap. Enter Tyler Cowen. In this book he argues why the U.S. way of funding the arts, while largely indirect, results not in the terrible and the small but in Good and Plenty--and how it could result in even more and better. Few would deny that America produces and consumes art of a quantity and quality comparable to that of any country. But is this despite or because of America's meager direct funding of the arts relative to European countries? Overturning the conventional wisdom of this question, Cowen argues that American art thrives through an ingenious combination of small direct subsidies and immense indirect subsidies such as copyright law and tax policies that encourage nonprofits and charitable giving. This decentralized and even somewhat accidental--but decidedly not laissez-faire--system results in arts that are arguably more creative, diverse, abundant, and politically unencumbered than that of Europe. Bringing serious attention to the neglected issue of the American way of funding the arts, Good and Plenty is essential reading for anyone concerned about the arts or their funding.

Art and state --- Federal aid to the arts --- Aesthetics --- Culture --- Arts fund raising --- Arts --- Art --- Aide de l'Etat aux arts --- Esthétique --- Economic aspects --- Economic aspects. --- Finance --- Politique gouvernementale --- Aspect économique --- Collecte de fonds --- United States --- Etats-Unis --- Cultural policy. --- Politique culturelle --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Esthetics --- Taste (Aesthetics) --- Philosophy --- Criticism --- Literature --- Proportion --- Symmetry --- Psychology --- Finance. --- Radio broadcasting Aesthetics

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David Speiser is Professor Emeritus at the Catholic University of Louvain, where he taught mathematics and physics from 1963 to 1990. His work in history of science included various publications, some of which are related to art history. Nephew of mathematician Andreas Speiser, David Speiser's own wide-ranging interests have brought him into contact with a panorama of disciplines. Editor Kim Williams has assembled a group of notes where scholars contribute essays inspired by their contact with Prof. Speiser in honour of his eightieth birthday. Topics range from history of sciences to history of art, from architecture theory to music theory, from particle physics to the proliferation of nuclear weapons, to an essay on the very nature of interdisciplinary studies. Contributors: Alessio Ageno, Jean-Pierre Antoine, Sandro Caparrini, Frans A. Cerulus, Sidney D. Drell, David Ritz Finkelstein, Laszlo Grenacs, Donal Hurley, Giuseppe La Rocca, Siegmund Levarie, Bernd Lindemann, Giulio Maltese, Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky, Orietta Pedemonte, Patricia Radelet-de Grave, Luigi A. Radicati di Brozolo, Michael Vandyck, Piero Villaggio, Kim Williams.

Science --- Art --- Mathematicians --- Physicists --- History. --- Philosophy. --- Speiser, David, --- Anniversaries, etc. --- Physical scientists --- Scientists --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Aesthetics --- Art and philosophy --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Analysis, interpretation, appreciation --- 5/6 (09) --- History --- Philosophy --- Geschiedenis van de exacte en toegepaste wetenschappen --- Mathematics. --- Differential Equations. --- Applications of Mathematics. --- Ordinary Differential Equations. --- 517.91 Differential equations --- Differential equations --- Math --- Applied mathematics. --- Engineering mathematics. --- Differential equations. --- Engineering --- Engineering analysis --- Mathematical analysis --- Mathematics --- Art history --- History of art

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Le sujet nu, le sujet du nu : cette espèce de présence tout à la fois comblée et dépouillée d'elle-même, cette retenue en soi d'une exposition complète, pudeur et audace mêlées dans un paraître qui assume ou qui consume l'être. Non l'être, en effet, mais l'éclat, non la permanence, mais l'instantané de ce qui ne saurait s'installer, et non un sens à déchiffrer derrière des signes et des traits, mais une vérité à même la peau.

Nudity --- Nudité --- Nudité --- Philosophical anthropology --- Art --- Nude in art --- Aesthetics --- Psychological aspects --- Nude in art. --- Aesthetics. --- Nu --- Esthétique --- Psychological aspects. --- Aspect psychologique --- CDL --- 7.041 --- Human figure in art --- Human body in art --- Composition (Art) --- Figurative art --- Anatomy, Artistic --- Figure drawing --- Figure painting --- Nakedness --- Nude --- Nudism --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Esthetics --- Taste (Aesthetics) --- Philosophy --- Criticism --- Literature --- Proportion --- Symmetry --- Psychology --- Art Criticism --- Radio broadcasting Aesthetics --- Nudity - Psychological aspects