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oapen-20.500.12657-597702022-11-29T10:40:50Z Travel, Writing and the Media Korte, Barbara Sennefelder, Anna Karina writing; media; history bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBG General & world history bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTB Social & cultural history Is the celebrated elegance of Cycladic marble figurines an effect their Early Bronze Age producers intended? Can one adequately appreciate an Assyrian regal statue described by a cuneiform inscription as beautiful? What to make of the apparent aesthetic richness of the traditional cultures of Melanesia, which, however, engage in virtually no recognizable aesthetic discourse? Questions such as these have been formulated and discussed by scholars of remote cultures against the backdrop of a general scepticism about the prospects of escaping the conditioning of one's own aesthetic culture and attuning to the norms of a remote one. This book makes a radical move: it treats the remote observers lack of aesthetic insight not as a hindrance to aesthetic analysis, but as a condition requiring an aesthetic theory that would make room for an aesthetic analysis independent of the model of competent aesthetic judgement or appreciation. Objects of Authority represents a rare effort at bringing together methods and concepts that are often addressed by separate disciplines. It will appeal to scholars and advanced students working on philosophical, art-historical, and anthropological theories of visual art and material culture. 2022-11-29T10:15:06Z 2022-11-29T10:15:06Z 2022 book 9780367520441 9780367520458 9781003056133 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/59770 eng Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003056133 10.4324/9781003056133 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb bee66e89-51d6-4de6-a1e7-60631fe5f8c8 ba48fdb0-151c-4861-9989-bc1c61aea3f9 277da9b6-393b-4f3a-9300-acd1ec86e67a 4bee5e4b-9e0e-451f-8042-18ca7190039c 9780367520441 9780367520458 9781003056133 Routledge open access
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Is the celebrated elegance of Cycladic marble figurines an effect their Early Bronze Age producers intended? Can one adequately appreciate an Assyrian regal statue described by a cuneiform inscription as beautiful? What to make of the apparent aesthetic richness of the traditional cultures of Melanesia, which, however, engage in virtually no recognizable aesthetic discourse? Questions such as these have been formulated and discussed by scholars of remote cultures against the backdrop of a general scepticism about the prospects of escaping the conditioning of one's own aesthetic culture and attuning to the norms of a remote one. This book makes a radical move: it treats the remote observers lack of aesthetic insight not as a hindrance to aesthetic analysis, but as a condition requiring an aesthetic theory that would make room for an aesthetic analysis independent of the model of competent aesthetic judgement or appreciation. Objects of Authority represents a rare effort at bringing together methods and concepts that are often addressed by separate disciplines. It will appeal to scholars and advanced students working on philosophical, art-historical, and anthropological theories of visual art and material culture.
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