Aesthetics

In George Dickie’s Art and Aesthetic: An Institutional Analysis, he sets out to define art by first explaining what it means for art to be part of an institution, part of the “artworld”. For example, the film industry can be viewed as an art institution. What the filmmaker provides…

University, which focuses on evolving African thought and practice. Black aesthetic can be defined in various ways. Hoyt Fuller, Larry Neal, Mari Evans, Haki Madhubuti, John Killens, Amiri Barka and many others discussed and defined the word “black aesthetic”. Neal posed…

Name Last Name Professor Course Number Date Vampire Aesthetic In her article “Powerful, Beautiful, and Without Regret:” Femininity, Masculinity, and the Vampire Aesthetic,” Joan Forry argues that conventional beliefs of beauty and appearance are at work in the portrayal of vampires. In vampire aesthetic, however, beauty is mostly conceptualized along the constructs of gender and sexuality. If a male vampire is conceptualized as a handsome martyr, the female one is conceptualized as a femme…

Additionally, in the context of whether hospitality industries are focusing more on aesthetic labour, studies have shown the need for aesthetic skill for front line employees especially within the hospitality and retail industry. The interaction with customers creates an impression on the quality of their service. Findings that are fully reported in Nickson et al (2003) stated that the need to look good and sound right did exist and is very important to employers in retail and hospitality.…

The conclusion to Kant’s Aesthetics revolves around his conception behind the sublime. Kant proposes that all experiences of sublimity evoke the experience of pleasure within the individual experience the sublime. The pleasure derives from a negative liking within the person as they experience displeasure at the awareness of the limitations of their imagination, yet this results in pleasure at knowing the ability of our human reason (Kant, 1987). Kant’s characterisation of the sublime presents a…

For my final exploration of Aesthetics paper, I decided to look at picture. I found this picture on the internet. I have been carefully looking at it and seeing what the picture means to me to choose this certain picture. I see a women holding a child at first. Then I mindful looked at the photo. The water is so beautiful and I could smell the ocean water in my mind. I could hear the waves splashing around and the cool water hitting my legs as I walk into the water. She is wearing a white…

research and evaluations.1 This innovation to provide better and efficient care to general public has been further applied to the field of dentistry with increasing awareness of the importance in maintaining good oral health and expectations of dental aesthetics. Dentistry, just like any other healthcare sectors,…

During human evolution, smiling has been learned for representing the state of joy. The effect of smile on society is undeniable. As we know, attractive smile is a result of consistency between various parts of teeth, intra and extra oral soft tissues. So a golden smile can be achieved by applying beauty standards during treatment. The standards originate from many different sources, such as the principles of beauty in art, the measured values of a certain race, studying a group of people who…

Postcolonial Aesthetic? This thesis seeks to contribute to the dialogue on the postcolonial aesthetic, by using concepts raised in Roland Barthes’ The Pleasure of the Text (1975) as a frame, through which to interrogate the ostensibly thorny issue of aesthetics in postcolonial writing. The idea behind this thesis stems from a reading of Elleke Boehmer’s essay “A Postcolonial Aesthetic” (2010), in which she questions the viability of approaching postcolonial fiction through its “aesthetic, or its…

Rosenblatt (1994) pointed out that most reading occur in the middle of the continuum between efferent and aesthetic stances. Aesthetic reading happens when readers are stirred by feelings and personal opinions. On the other hand, efferent reading is motivated by the purpose of retaining specific, wanted information from the text. When transacting with texts, Rosenblatt argued that readers bring their personal life experiences as well as past experiences with language in order to construct…