Aesthetics /

Aesthetics / / Vasily Sesemann ; translated from Lithuanian by Mykolas Drunga ; edited and introduced by Leonidas Donskis.

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Superior document:On the boundary of two worlds ; 8
:
Sezemanas, Vosylius, 1884-1963.
TeilnehmendeR:
Drunga, Mykolas.
Donskis, Leonidas.
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi,, 2007.
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Lithuanian
Series:On the Boundary of Two Worlds 8.
Physical Description:1 online resource (309 pages).
Notes:
  • Includes index.
  • Originally published as Estetika by Vilnius: Mintis, 1970.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Aesthetics: Definition and Object
  • Difficuties for Aesthetics
  • Immediate Aesthetics Perception—the Material Basis of Aesthetics
  • The Optimal Starting Point: Nature or Art?
  • Three Starting Points for Aesthetics Analysis
  • The Essential Properties of Aesthetics Perception
  • The Internal Structure of an Aesthetic Object
  • The Expressiveness of an Aesthetic Object and its Objective Sense
  • Aesthetic Form and Aesthetic Structure
  • The Relations of Natural and Artistic Beauty with Respect to Origin
  • The Aesthetic Critertion of Natural and Artistic Beauty is the Same
  • The Conception of Nature’s Beauty in the History of European Culture. The Beauty of Wild Nature
  • The Beauty of Organic Forms
  • Human Beauty. Its Ideal
  • Organic Beauty and the Sexual Instinct
  • Beauty and Ugliness. Their Relation in Art
  • The Peculiarity of Natural Beauty
  • The Relation of Primitive Art to Others Areas of Culture
  • Attempts to Derive the Origin of Art form General Psychological Principles. Criticism
  • Stimuli for the Emergence of Representational Art
  • The Origin of Music
  • General Conclusions
  • The Artist and the Child (Primitive Man)
  • A General Characterization of the Creative Process
  • The Creative Process: Three Basic Moments
  • Creative Imagination
  • The Problem: Formulation and Explication
  • Taine’s “Milieu Theory” and its Critical Appraisal
  • The Psychological Theory of “Numbing” and its Critique
  • The Relation of the Artist’s Individual and Creativity to the Cultural Environment
  • The Relation of the Development of Art to General Cultural Development
  • The Historical Changing of Styles and the Theories Explaining it
  • Introduction
  • Beauty and Morality
  • Art (Beauty) and Truth
  • The Aesthetic of the Ancient Greeks
  • Rationalist Aesthetics in France and Germany
  • The Empiricist Aesthetics of the English
  • The Aesthetics of Kant
  • Vico
  • German Idealist Aesthetics: Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer
  • The Formalists. Fechner
  • Contemporary Aesthetic Theories
  • The Problem
  • The Relation of the Art Work to the Subject. Optical and Acoustic Impression: Their Difference
  • Spatial and Nonspatial Forms of Art
  • Objective and Nonobjective Forms of Art
  • Representational and Nonrepresentational Art
  • Notes
  • Index.

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