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9 unusual facts about aesthetics


Alexis Roland-Manuel

In 1947, he was appointed Professor of Aesthetics at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he remained until his retirement in 1961, making many contributions to musical theory and criticism, even assisting Igor Stravinsky by ghost-writing the theoretical work "The Poetics of Music".

Eneas Sweetland Dallas

He was educated at the Edinburgh University, where he studied philosophy under Sir William Hamilton, and acquired the habit of applying notions derived from eclectic psychology to the analysis of aesthetic effects in poetry, rhetoric, and the fine arts.

Heinrich Gustav Hotho

He is famous for being the compiler and editor of Hegel's posthumous work Lectures on Aesthetics.

José Ricardo Mazó

He translated the lecture notes on Aesthetics that Hegel had distributed in the University of Berlin into Spanish as Introducción a la Estética de G.W:F.

Murad Wilfried Hofmann

1973 Of Beauty and the Dance: Towards an Aesthetics of Ballet, in: Three Essays in Dance Aesthetic, Dance Perspectives No. 55, New York

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Peter Ernst von Lasaulx

Although the Würzburg government tried to keep him there, Lasaulx left in 1844 to become Professor of Philology and Aesthetics at the University of Munich, where he became known for his magnetic style.

The GreenMount School

This assignment involved creating two album covers for the band, one using the design aesthetic of 1960 and one the design aesthetic of 1980; writing lyrics for a song on each of the albums; and crafting a pseudobiography for the band, covering its two decades of existence.

Violeta Dinescu

She started teaching at the George Enescu Music School in Bucharest, conducting courses in Music history, Aesthetics, Counterpoint, Harmony and Piano.


Adina Bar-On

Bar-On found inspiration for her aesthetics in film, precisely in Giulietta Masina's actors work, as well as in the new manner introduced by Fellini, Antonioni and Godard of seeing film-life (art-life) relationship problem.

One of recent major projects, such as "Aesthetics and Bias" involve institutions such as Bezalel Academy, Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, University of Fine Arts in Poznań, Warsaw Academy, Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, to work together in a process of developing new aesthetics.

Art for Everyday

Employing woodcarving technology and hand crafting techniques, Art For Everyday uses themes and motifs inspired by nature and historical aesthetics, particularly the Baroque, Renaissance and Gothic era.

Baroque painting

Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Baroque Reason: The Aesthetics of Modernity, Sage, 1994

Boisnard Philippe

His philosophy studies led him to become a teacher, he began by publishing criticizing and theoretical papers in magazines such as "Le Philosophoire”, “La Revue d’Esthétique” (“The Journal of Aesthetics”) (ed. Jean-Michel Place) or “Respublica” (PUF), and then wrote regularly between 2002 and 2006 in “Liberation” a famous French magazine.

Božidar Kantušer

He attended aesthetics courses by Étienne Souriau at the Sorbonne, the courses of Olivier Messiaen at the Paris conservatory, and appeared at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music.

Canadia: 2056

Accompanying Rhodes' voiceover at the start of each episode is an instrumental interpretation of the song Life on Mars? At the end of each episode, the credits are read over the song "Gravity", taken from the Max Webster album High Class in Borrowed Shoes.

Communication aesthetics

At the occasion of Artmedia, a colloquium on Video Art organized by Mario Costa, Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Salerno, Fred Forest had been invited to enact a performance and installation involving the Italian National Television Broadcaster (RAI).

Cornelius Jakhelln

Cornelius has a master's degree in philosophie/lettres modernes from University of Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne and a master's degree in the philosophy of cognitive science with a minor in aesthetics from the University of Sussex.

David Carson Berry

Among his diverse research interests are American popular music of the 1920s-60s, including a focus on Irving Berlin and Jimmy Van Heusen; the theory and aesthetics of music of the mid-eighteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, including a focus on Igor Stravinsky; and Schenkerian theory and its reception history in the U.S.

Demonlover

In recent years the film has gained a cult following for its post-modern aesthetics and soundtrack by American rock group, Sonic Youth.

Dessoir

Max Dessoir (1867–1947), German philosopher and theorist of aesthetics

Diego Bowie

This creation is a deconstructed vision derived from years of education from his collection of over 200 Vogue magazines, and some L'Officiel, Harper's Bazaar, Numéro, Purple (magazine) amongst other editions that gave life to his ingrained aesthetics.

Felix Gmür

In 1997 he obtained his doctorate in philosophy on the aesthetics of Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Gay Street Bridge

Engineering journals such as Engineering News and Bridge Engineering praised the bridge's combination of safety and aesthetics.

Gustav Wyneken

The young Walter Benjamin's political aesthetics were greatly influenced by a stay (1905-1907) at a Wyneken boarding school (Haubinda in Thüringen) where he became close to Wyneken.

Higashiyama period

Based largely on the ideals and aesthetics of Zen Buddhism and the concept of wabi-sabi (beauty in simplicity), Higashiyama Bunka centered on the development of chadō (Japanese tea ceremony), ikebana (flower arranging), Noh drama, and sumi-e ink painting.

Joëlle Morosoli

In 1997, she moved to Paris where she undertook doctoral studies at Paris 8 University under the supervision of Edmond Couchot, and obtained her doctorate in aesthetics and science and technology in the arts with her thesis L'installation en mouvement: une esthétique de la violence (The installation in motion: an aesthetics of violence) in 2002.

Johann Joachim Eschenburg

He published a series of German translations of the principal English writers on aesthetics, such as Charles Burney, Joseph Priestley and Richard Hurd; and also produced the first complete translation in German prose of Shakespeare's plays (William Shakespear's Schauspiele, 13 vols., Zürich, 1775–1782).

Jorge Falleiros

The poet can not be elevated to the category of the poet Brazilian romanticism alongside Gonçalves de Magalhães, Gonçalves Dias, Alvares de Azevedo, Casimiro de Abreu, Junqueira Freire, Fagundes Varela and Castro Alves, but it is undeniable its romance and his preference for romantic literary aesthetics in the design of his poetry.

Kason Sugioka

Sugioka received his teaching certificate from the Osaka Kyoiku University, then studied literature and aesthetics at Kyoto University and afterwards learned the art of zen from Shin'ichi Hisamatsu.

Kate Vrijmoet

In 2011 Vrijmoet’s installation piece “Mother May I…?” was exhibited at the Orange County Center on Contemporary Arts (OCCCA),in a show that was endorsed by Nicolas Bourriaud, who coined the term relational aesthetics Relational art.

Kavita Singh

Kavita Singh is an associate professor of art history at the School of Arts and Aesthetics of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).

Kerry James Marshall

With this addition, he references the movement begun during the Harlem Renaissance to incorporate traditional African aesthetics into African American art.

Lorenz Leopold Haschka

Haschka was given a position as assistant in the library of the University of Vienna and was made instructor in aesthetics in the newly founded Theresianum.

Lucia Ronchetti

In 1991 she received a Diplôme d'Études Approfondies (D.E.A.) in aesthetics from the University of Paris I-Sorbonne.

Mankompu Sivasankara Pillai

In 2006, Mankompu, with his brother C.K. Sivarama Pillai, brought out a book 'Kathakali Swaroopam', that deals with the evolution, grammar and aesthetics of the art form in the Travancore region.

Mazen Asfour

Dr. Azfour spent almost 15 years in Florence and Bologna, studying “museologia”, Art criticism, aesthetics, semiology where Prof. Umberto Eco is taking his cultural role at the University of Bologna.

Michel Philippot

Michel Paul Philippot (2 February 1925 in Verzy – 28 July 1996 in Vincennes) was a French composer, mathematician, acoustician, musicologist, aesthetician, broadcaster, and educator.

Mirage Magazine

Mirage's subject matter predominantly focuses on timeless aesthetics in the fields of architectural-, automotive- and product design combined with features about forgotten utopias and influential creative personalities like Robert Evans or Peter Saville.

Miyabi

Adherents to the ideals of miyabi strove to rid the world of crude forms or aesthetics and emotions that were common in artworks of the period, such as those contained in the Man'yōshū, the oldest extant collection of Japanese poetry.

Modern poetry

Modernist poetry, the application of modernist aesthetics to poetry.

Pierre Ancelin

Born in Cannes, Ancelin studied pedagogy and music history at the conservatories of Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, then followed the course of aesthetics of Olivier Messiaen in Paris.

Practical Aesthetics

Famous practitioners of Practical Aesthetics include: William H Macy, Felicity Huffman, Scott Parker, Christopher Carley, Rose Byrne, Jessica Alba, Camryn Manheim, Clark Gregg, Kristen Johnston and Eddie Cahill.

Raimundo Lida

In 1943 he gained his doctorate at the University of Buenos Aires with a dissertation on aesthetics and language in Santillana.

Ratnakar Pai

The aesthetics of the gayaki are based on the solid foundation of compositions that delineate the nuances of a Raag accompanied by an syncopated approach to laya.

Reesa Greenberg

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2006, Aesthetics of Trauma: five installations of Charlotte Salomons "Life as Theatre" Reading Charlotte Salomon, Michael P. Steinberg and Monica Bohm-Duchen Editors, Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London.

Shirakabaha

The Shirakaba-ha thought highly of Western aesthetics (particularly Expressionism and Post-Impressionism), and considered their mission to spread the ideas of Western art and Western literature into Japan.

The New Aesthetics

Alan Pocaro's formal involvement in the New Aesthetics as a movement began in 2010 through correspondence with Paraskos and was cemented through a joint teaching session Paraskos and Pocaro held in early 2011, via internet video link, of students at Miami University.

Tom et Lola

The aesthetics of scenarios in the laboratory and the excessive use of white, is similar to THX 1138 by George Lucas, a kind of paradigm in the science fiction of the 1970s.

Virgil Mihaiu

Virgil Mihaiu (born June 28, 1951 in Cluj, Romania) is a Romanian writer, jazz critic, diplomat, jazz aesthetics professor, polyglot, and performer.

Werner Hamacher

He is the author of "Pleroma—Dialectics and Hermeneutics in Hegel" and "Premises: Essays on Philosophy from Kant to Celan" and the editor of the series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics, published by Stanford University Press.

Zhang Dai

His family's wealth allowed him to develop his aesthetic tastes in such pursuits as Moon watching festivals, Chinese lantern design, the sponsorship of dramatic troupes, appreciation of tea, and garden and landscape aesthetics.


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