Search Results - "ESPES"

Moments of crisis are always worth analysing. When confronted by visitors’ hands, The Sunflowers and The Comedian represent contrasting attitudes. This divergence is determined by differences in their modes of existence, durations, irreproducibilities, and ways of being experienced. The existence of...

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In this paper, I shall examine the aesthetic experience afforded by stones – in particular the kind of smoothly rounded enchanting pebbles that invite us to handle and collect them – and argue that it is not simply an experience of natural objects, but that their appeal is related to their being com...

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The absence of ‘tactual art’ in Western culture is often associated with a marginalization of the sense of touch in the aesthetic experience of art. This paper considers several explanations for the apparent historical neglect of touch as an aesthetic sense. While dismissing the idea that the releva...

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John Adams’s Nixon in China (1987) is one of the most iconic operatic works of the end of the 20th century. It is also an interesting case to study the relationship between aesthetics and politics. In this paper, I offer a reading of the political and aesthetic sides of the work in light of John Dew...

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Western centre-periphery concepts of experiencing art within current (neuro)aesthetics show the way Susanne K. Langer’s philosophy of art intersects with the non-Western mode of thinking. To find what is conceptualised as undetermined in Langer’s philosophical concept of feeling and, more generally,...

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This article examines how Arthur C. Danto and Yuriko Saito sought to expand the boundaries of aesthetics and art, challenging the inherited concepts of Western modernity. While Danto redefines art as an intellectual rather than a purely visual phenomenon, ultimately declaring the end of art to justi...

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Both food and the sense of touch mainly were ignored throughout the history of Western philosophy. Times have changed, and finally, research is done on touch and on food even in Ango-American aesthetics. This paper brings the topics together by looking into the importance of touch in our aesthetic e...

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Book review of Makky, L. (2024) Kritické čítanie estetických textov. Autor, text, čitateľ. Prešov: Vydavateľstvo Prešovskej univerzity. 164 s. ISBN 978-80-555-3360-5.

The ongoing digital transformation has significantly altered our access to cooking recipes, introducing AI-generated outputs from Large Language Models (LLMs). This paper examines the ontological status of such AI-generated recipes, arguing that neither recipe Platonism nor Constructivism can fully...

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Touch has recently gained attention in aesthetics. Carolyn Korsmeyer argues that touchable artefacts offer valuable aesthetic encounters with genuineness, rarity, and connection to the past. She employs Walter Benjamin’s argument that a unique work has an authenticity and aura that copies cannot hav...

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The denotative and theoretical indeterminacy make the sense of touch an ambiguous concept to work with. While materiality and relationality, traditionally assigned in philosophical discourses and acknowledged through scientific research, are considered as the inherent dimensions of touch, the paper...

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With the aim of grasping the transformations the study of thermal touch from a phenomenological perspective could bring to the aesthetic field, in the first part of this paper, I introduce the general idea of a plastic sensorium in the context of the Aristotelian doctrine of life as dependant on hap...

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The so-called “lower senses” of taste and smell have received some attention in philosophical aesthetics over the past two decades, but touch remains relatively neglected.  This paper addresses some possible reasons for its neglect and indicates promising areas of exploration.  Section 1 briefly rev...

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In the last few decades, we have observed an increased interest in photography as an object of study of the everyday, as well as of the formation of everyday habits and aesthetics. It is no longer understood strictly as an artistic entity, a document, or a personal commodity, but – under the impress...

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This paper explores the aesthetic and ethical implications of touch in contemporary art, challenging the Kantian notion of aesthetic distance, which has long privileged vision and hearing as the primary senses for experiencing art. Through the analysis of selected works of art, the paper argues that...

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Introduction for a thematic symposium Art, Aesthetics, and the Sense of Touch of ESPES. The Slovak Journal of Aesthetics.

Bridges, traditionally conceived as architectural structures, are examined in this study as complex aesthetic phenomena with distinct and significant ontological and epistemological dimensions. Drawing from Karen Barad’s intra–active realism and the rhizomatic ontology of Deleuze and Guattari, the r...

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In Things: In Touch with the Past (2019), Carolyn Korsmeyer builds on her earlier work in which she argues that our tactile interactions with objects connect us to the past, enriching our aesthetic experiences and imbuing artifacts with deeper meaning. Building on these insights, our paper addresses...

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The present study chronologically surveys innovative processes in aesthetic education and the impact of music educators who, after the political and cultural changes in Slovakia in 1989, embarked on the path of developing the concept of polyaesthetic education in line with the ideas of its founder, ...

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Book review of  Dytrtová, K. (2024) Galerijní animace, tělo a prostor. Ústí nad Labem: Fakulta umění a designu Univerzity Jana Evangelisty Purkyně. ISBN 978-80-7561-468-1. ISBN 978-80-7561-444-5.