Category: Arts – Arts Theory and Criticism
Two-level of Creation
This research explores the search for generation and manifestation, focusing on the ontological and epistemological aspects derived from the interaction between contemporary Neo-Confucianism and phenomenology. Manifestation here signifies creation on two levels: one is the creation at the level of the flowing, holistic world, and the other is the creation at the level of objects …
The Study of the Relation Between Interpretation and Existence: Understanding How Spaces Transform Into Places Through Experience and Perception
When experiencing a space, different appreciators can have different experiences, perceptions, and interpretations of meaning. Why is that so? What factors make space meaningful for certain people, and what factors influence the perception and experience of space so that space changes into a place? A case study is the space in installation art. There is …
Space Producing and Time: Spatiotemporal Concepts in Linear and Cavalier Perspectives
It is known that the linear perspective was a significant invention of the European Renaissance, while the cavalier perspective which reverses the linear perspective vision has been applied in traditional Chinese painting for thousands of years. The divergence of perceiving spatiality between Chinese and European art formed in this age. Concerning the representation of space …
Artistic “License”: Kagan’s Charismatic Dissent in Warhol v. Goldsmith
Our study explores the rhetorical demystification of artistic “license” via an analysis of United States Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan’s dissent in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., v. Goldsmith et al. (2023). The case question presented revolves around what constitutes transformation in a work of art. Petitioner Warhol argues that his portrait …
Schubert – the Strange and the Supernatural: Exploring Nineteenth Century Fantasy Aesthetic and Its Expression in Schubert’s Music
This study aims to comprehend better the culture surrounding Romantic aesthetics of fantasy and the uncanny during the nineteenth century (c.1800-1890) and evaluate how their expression in Schubert’s music can be understood. Initially, it will examine philosophical writings (Chander 2015) artwork (Crane 2013; Dunekacke 2016) and literature (Geistfeld 2015; Smajic 2003) of the period, combining …
From Virtual Space to “Third Space”: Mickey Mouse in Shanghai During the 1930s and 1940s
Mickey Mouse made his Chinese debut in the Shanghai illustrated magazine Liangyou in 1932. Since then, urban audiences in Shanghai began to see both authorized and unauthorized Mickey Mouse cartoons in entertainment mediums, including magazines, newspapers, and films. Through the analysis of images in various Shanghai media, this paper explores how the cultural identity of …
Redefining Crafts and Crafts Enterprise in the Twenty-First Century: A Theoretical Analysis
When studying crafts as a tangible material culture associated with intangible heritage contexts, it is essential to investigate the terms objectification, material culture and artefact. These three terms are connected with the concepts of ‘thing’, socialization, production, biography, exchange, art, fetishism, taste, lifestyle, consumption, values, history, place and landscape (Tilley, 2010); therefore, it is very …
Writing Forces: Revisiting the Aesthetic Concept of Shi 勢 in Chinese Calligraphy Criticism
Ideas regarding forces in things – and artists’ sensations and presentations of such forces – have been discussed by Western theorists Theodor Lipps, Rudolf Arnheim and Gilles Deleuze. For example, Deleuze, in “Painting Forces,” pronounced that art is about rendering invisible forces visible. This paper concerns Chinese calligraphy, an East Asian art that since its …
Solving Problems and Pleasing Patrons: The Case Study of the Egyptian Artists Who Decorated the Xviiith Dynasty Private Theban Tombs
This study is focused on the artists involved in the decoration of the private Theban tombs of the nobles of the Egyptian XVIIIth Dynasty, who were part of the court and usually had a close relationship with the king. These private tombs, full of vivacious and original decorations, have been a focus of attention for …