American aesthetics: theory and practice

by Gulick, Walter B. Slater, Gary

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Full title :American aesthetics : theory and practice / edited by Walter B. Gulick and Gary Slater.

Summary

"Although there are distinctly American artists-Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Grandma Moses, Thomas Hart Benton, and Andy Warhol, for example-very little attention has been devoted to formulating any distinctively American characteristics of aesthetic judgment and practice. This volume takes a step in this direction, presenting an introductory essay on the possibility of such a distinctly American tradition, and a collection of essays exploring particular examples from a variety of angles. Some of the essays in this collection extend pragmatist and process insights about the important place aesthetics has in molding and assessing experience. Other essays examine the place of American aesthetics in relation to such particular forms of art as painting, literature, music, and film. Three essays attend to the aesthetic aspects of a flourishing life. In each of the essays, American aesthetics is understood to arise out of deeply felt personal, historical, and cultural backgrounds. Consequently, not only are such relatively abstract notions as harmony, fit, elegance, proportion, and the like involved in aesthetic judgment, but also religious, political, and social factors become embroiled in aesthetic discernment. Thus the ongoing pattern of American aesthetics is shown to be distinguishable from such other varieties of aesthetic thought as analytic aesthetics, New Criticism, and postmodern approaches to aesthetics"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):State University of New York Press
Place of Publication:Albany
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiii, 414 pages) : : illustrations.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781438478593, 1438478593
oclc:on1126350961
LC Classification:BH221.U5
Dewey Decimal:111/.850973

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I. Introduction -- 1. Toward an American Aesthetics -- Aesthetics-A Definition -- The American Background -- Classic American Philosophers -- The Kantian Framework and First Domain of Aesthetic Judgment -- The Second Domain of Aesthetic Judgment -- The Third Domain of Aesthetic Judgment -- The Felt Aspect of Aesthetic Judgment -- Characteristics of American Aesthetics -- New Criticism as Overly Constrained -- High-Art Analysis -- Postmodernism -- Conclusion -- Notes

II. Philosophical Contributions to American Aesthetics from the Past -- 2 The Primacy of Aesthetic Judgments: Emerson's Deontological-Transcendentalist Account of Tragedy -- Introduction -- Emerson's Tragic Sense -- Terror and Tragedy in the Twenty-first Century -- Tragedy after Emerson? -- Notes -- 3 Peirce and Edwards on the Argument from Beauty -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Notes -- 4 A Semeiotic Account of Paintings as Pure Icons that Communicate Beautiful Feelings -- Paintings as Pure Icons Interpretable Via Emotional Interpretants

The Process of Painting and the Endowment of Paintings with Beautiful Feelings -- Beautiful Paintings and the …