As I mentioned in a post I wrote a few minutes ago, Richard Wollheim's "Painting as an Art" has gripped me because it invites the reader to join the author in looking at pictures closely. His obituary mentions his own method as he applied it in galleries:

>> I evolved a way of looking at paintings which was massively time consuming and deeply rewarding. For I came to recognise that it often took the first hour or so in front of a painting for stray associations or motivated misperceptions to settle down, and it was only then, with the same amount of time or more to spend looking at it, that the picture could be relied upon to disclose itself as it was. I noticed that I became an object of suspicion to passers-by, and so did the picture that I was looking at. <<

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/nov/05/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries

Image: Richard Wollheim -- British Academy

#RichardWollheim #PaintingAsAnArt #PhilosophyOfArt #Aesthetics #ArtCriticism #Art #Philosophy

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I've just finished reading Herbert Marcuse's "The Aesthetic Dimension: Towards a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics".

Marcuse makes a powerful case for the the autonomy of art, as neither an escapist refuge nor a simple tool or superstructural reflection of social forces, but as a radical emancipatory force in its own right.

Even though proponents of the orthodox Marxist aesthetics he criticizes must be as rare as hen's teeth today, his argument, mutatis mutandis, can still be read with profit today by all on the left.

I read it in hard copy, but it's short enough to read online as a PDF:

http://www.marginalutility.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/aesthetic-dimension-_-marcuse.pdf

The work was originally published in German under the title "Die Permanenz
der Kunst: Wider eine bestimmte Marxistische Aesthetik" in 1977.

In that same year....

#Philosophy #Aesthetics #Marcuse #FrankfurtSchool #CriticalTheory #Marxism #PhilosophyOfArt #LiteraryTheory

I''m one of what seems to be a small minority of Kpop fans in not liking aespa -- Supernova.

This experience brings me back to questions that I consider frequently:

- Do we really believe that taste is purely subjective, as is so frequently affirmed in pop culture media?

- Does it make sense to say that one can have defective taste or in some way be mistaken in one's artistic preferences?

#Kpop #PopularCulture #Aesthetics #Taste #Normativity #Aespa #Supernova #GirlGroups #PhilosophyOfArt

I drew Baphomet, in space. Baphonaut. Along the way I wrote down my thoughts on the techniques involved and the meaning of art. Here's the whole process, from start to finish.

https://betsystreeter.com/drawing-baphomet-in-space-from-start-to-finish/

#MastoArt #FediArt #Art #Illustration #Process #PhilosophyOfArt #Baphomet #HailSatan #Astronaut #Space

Pleased to #announce that my #book “Night Sky - Experiments with collected time and harvested light” has just been #published and is now available to buy. More on my website: https://www.wolfkettler.com/night-sky-book

#bookpublishing #photographybooks #artbooks #nightsky #BlackAndWhite #bnw #photographyart #artphotography #PhilosophyOfArt #announcement #justpublished #newbooks #artist #photography #time #light #longexposure #night #sky #fotografie #PassingOfTime #reality

#StacieFriend - How Does #Art Affect the #Self?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSuo7a_b5Pw&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfArt #TheSelf #Sociology #Psychology #Television #Representation #Belief #Beliefs #Race #Racism #Bigotry #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

Calling all #Aesthetics and #PhilosophyOfArt researchers!

Aesthetic Investigations is seeking contributions to a special issue on the topic of #Models and #Sitters: The Art and Aesthetics of #Posing

Guest editors: Hans Maes, Aurélie Debaene and C.A. York

Submission deadline 1 August
https://aestheticinvestigations.eu/about/submissions
(please select "Models and sitters" under the Section heading)

Projected Interiorities, issue 20.3 of Technoetic Arts, has already been included in the EBSCOhost collection. Readers with an academic affiliation can now access the issue's articles via their library.

We have added the EBSCOhost links here to each of the articles: https://ta.pubpub.org/pub/20-3-projected-interiorities/

#interiority, #space, #pandemicturn, #art, #philosophyofart