Tag: Aesthetics

Free Download Wojciech Malecki, "Practicing Pragmatist Aesthetics "
English | ISBN: 9042038365 | 2014 | 236 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This is the first collection in English devoted exclusively to pragmatist aesthetics. Its main aim is to employ the resources of that rich and exciting tradition in studying artistic phenomena such as film, sculpture, bio-art, poetry, the novel, cuisine, and various body arts. But it also attempts to provide a wider background for such studies by sketching the history of pragmatist reflection on the aesthetic and by discussing some of the main positions that this history has produced: the aesthetic conceptions of C.S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, Joseph Margolis, Richard Shusterman (somaesthetics in particular), and others.

Free Download Bead Talk: Indigenous Knowledge and Aesthetics from the Flatlands
by Carmen L. Robertson, Judy Anderson
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1772840688 | 201 Pages | PDF | 4.93 MB

Free Download Balanced Website Design: Optimising Aesthetics, Usability and Purpose By Dave Lawrence BSc, MA, PhD, PGCertHE, Soheyla Tavakol BA, MA, PGCertHE (auth.)
2007 | 236 Pages | ISBN: 1846285186 | PDF | 7 MB
Balanced Website Design (BWD) is a new methodology that fuses the strengths of traditional structured, stepped, and iterative approaches with a sharp focus on defining and achieving the desired characteristics of purpose, usability and aesthetics – absolutely essential requirements for any website. The book includes discussions of new perspectives on usability and aesthetics in the special context of website design.BWD is suitable for all types of websites, for individual and/or team projects, and should prove to be of significant value for even the most experienced of website designers. BWD provides guidance, structure and detailed documentation/process support for the activity of designing and implementing your next website – helping you to maximise its effectiveness and relevance. Features:A stepped, iterative, comprehensively structured and easy to follow approach to website design An approach that identifies and balances design needs against specific design ideas across each of the categories of aesthetics, usability and purpose New perspectives on usability and aesthetics Specially designed documentation provided to facilitate and support each process stepA methodology that is applicable to all types of website, and to all project scenariosResource based support via the book’s website (www.springer.com/1-84628-518-6)Dr. Dave Lawrence is a Senior Lecturer in multimedia web technology at Middlesex University, and has been researching in this field for over a decade. The BWD concept and material have been progressively tested in classes over the past five years. Soheyla Tavakol comes from a freelance graphic design background and has been teaching at university level in desktop publishing and digital media for many years.

Free Download Asli Özgen, "The Aesthetics and Politics of Cinematic Pedestrianism: Walking in Films "
English | ISBN: 9463724753 | 2022 | 256 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The Aesthetics and Politics of Cinematic Pedestrianism: Walking in Films offers a rich exploration of the cinematic aesthetics that filmmakers devised to reflect the corporeal and affective experience of walking in the city. Drawing from literature in urban studies, film theory, and aesthetic philosophy, it is the first monograph to approach the history of cinema from the perspective of walking. A series of case studies providing nuanced analyses of widely referenced figures, such as the flaneur/flâneuse, vagabond, and nomad, reveal how filmmakers articulated their objection to repressive structures through depictions of walking: a common, everyday act yet transgressive, bold, and indomitable. Through the lens of Henri Lefebvre’s theory of space, Michel de Certeau’s concept of pedestrian acts, and Jacques Rancière’s treatment of the politics of aesthetics, Walking in Films traces how cinema evolved in conversation with the mobile body and the new images, styles, and techniques that emerged with it.

Free Download Materiality in Roman Art and Architecture: Aesthetics, Semantics and Function (Decorative Principles in Late Republican and Early Imperial Italy (Decor), 3) by Annette Haug, Adrian Hielscher, M. Taylor Lauritsen
English | January 4, 2022 | ISBN: 3110762900 | 294 pages | MOBI | 14 Mb
The focus of this volume is on the aesthetics, semantics and function of materials in Roman antiquity between the 2nd century B.C. and the 2nd century A.D. It includes contributions on both architectural spaces (and their material design) and objects – types of ‘artefacts’ that differ greatly in the way they were used, perceived and loaded with cultural significance. With respect to architecture, the analysis of material aesthetics leads to a new understanding of the performance, imitation and transformation of surfaces, including the social meaning of such strategies. In the case of objects, surface treatments are equally important. However, object form (a specific design category), which can enter into tension with materiality, comes into particular focus. Only when materials are shaped do their various qualities emerge, and these qualities are, to a greater or lesser extent, transferred to objects. With a focus primarily on Roman Italy, the papers in this volume underscore the importance of material design and highlight the awareness of this matter in the ancient world.

Free Download Barry Monahan, "Hands on Film: Actants, Aesthetics, Affects "
English | ISBN: 946372771X | 2022 | 270 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Hands on Film is a comprehensive study of the representations and on-screen uses of the human limb, spanning the history of the cinema from its birth to contemporary times. It examines how filmmakers have framed the hand for a variety of effects, from stylistic to thematic, and for the development of characterisation and narrative. The book offers insights into how films have created meaning by focusing on that part of the anatomy and, in turn, proposes a variety of ways in which its on-screen appearances might shed light on what it means to be sentient, cultured, and creative beings in the world.

Free Download Jeremy Hektor Payne-Frank, "Aesthetics of Participation: Atmosphere, Design, and Experience at the Oslo Opera House "
English | ISBN: 1032668776 | 2024 | 172 pages | EPUB | 21 MB
This book explores the way people participate with the Oslo Opera House, Norway. As an iconic and culture-led building, these different modes of participation reveal the tensions between staged space and individual experience.

Free Download Aesthetics of Participation: Atmosphere, Design, and Experience at the Oslo Opera House
by Jeremy Hektor Payne-Frank
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032668776 | 184 Pages | True PDF | 25 MB

Free Download Georg Simmel, "Georg Simmel: Essays on Art and Aesthetics"
English | ISBN: 022662109X | 2020 | 392 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Georg Simmel is one of the most original German thinkers of the twentieth century and is considered a founding architect of the modern discipline of sociology. Ranging over fundamental questions of the relationship of self and society, his influential writings on money, modernity, and the metropolis continue to provoke debate today.

Free Download The Outward Mind: Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science and Literature by Benjamin Morgan
English | May 1, 2017 | ISBN: 022644211X, 022646220X | True EPUB | 368 pages | 2.7 MB
Though underexplored in contemporary scholarship, the Victorian attempts to turn aesthetics into a science remain one of the most fascinating aspects of that era. In The Outward Mind, Benjamin Morgan approaches this period of innovation as an important origin point for current attempts to understand art or beauty using the tools of the sciences.