{"title":"Architecture and Embodied Free Play","authors":"EMILY HODGES","doi":"10.1111/jaac.12718","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jaac.12718","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article argues that architecture makes possible a unique form of aesthetic experience, one involving what I will call, departing from a Kantian perspective, embodied free play. I argue that architecture's purpose is to encourage, cultivate, and enable human activities while also becoming crystallizations of those very activities. I will show that the living system of such interaction is called “place,” as I explore the role of artifacts, movement, activities, and the environment in place creation. I show that when the embodied activities and design of a place harmonize, a fullness of free play is made possible and daily living can involve aesthetic experience.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51571,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/jaac.12718","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115474396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Plato in Therapy: A Cognitivist Reassessment of the Republic's Idea of Mimesis","authors":"JONAS GRETHLEIN","doi":"10.1111/jaac.12716","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jaac.12716","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The <i>Republic</i>’s ban on poetry is a major reason for the prominent place that liberal critics assign to Plato among the enemies of the open society, Friedrich Nietzsche's description of Plato as “the greatest enemy of art Europe has yet produced” being often cited. In this article, I argue that, while Plato's ethical stance remains unacceptable for most readers today, his understanding of aesthetic experience in the <i>Republic</i> appears highly perceptive when seen in the light of cognitive studies and can be thought-provoking for current debates. As I try to show in the first half of the article, Plato's assessment of responses to poetry and theater resonate with embodied and enactive views of cognition. To corroborate this thesis, I point out in the second half that while theory has been blind to the significance of Plato's aesthetics, its major ideas are substantiated in practice. Contemporary psychotherapy and its increasing deployment of virtual reality unknowingly and with the opposite intent realize Plato's approach to the cognitive dynamics and ethical potential of aesthetic experience.</p>","PeriodicalId":51571,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/jaac.12716","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115586590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rothfarb, , , Lee and Christoph Landerer. Eduard Hanslick's on the Musically Beautiful: A New Translation. Oxford University Press, 2018, 224 pp., $24.95 cloth.","authors":"LYDIA GOEHR","doi":"10.1111/jaac.12693","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jaac.12693","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51571,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/jaac.12693","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128762064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Baer, Nicholas , Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, and Gunnar Iversen, eds. Unwatchable. Rutgers University Press, 2019, 412 pp., 51 b&w illus., $29.95 paper.","authors":"KRISTIN HREHOR","doi":"10.1111/jaac.12697","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jaac.12697","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51571,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/jaac.12697","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114162626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Trompe l'oeils Deceive Our Visual Experience","authors":"GABRIELE FERRETTI","doi":"10.1111/jaac.12688","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jaac.12688","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Philosophers suggested that usual picture perception requires the simultaneous occurrence of the perception of the surface and of the depicted object. However, there are special cases of picture perception, such as <i>trompe l'oeil</i> perception, in which, unlike in usual picture perception, the object looks like a real, present object we can interact with, of the kind we are usually acquainted with in <i>face-to-face perception</i>. While philosophers suggested that <i>usual picture perception</i> and <i>trompe l'oeil</i> perception must differ with respect to the perception of the surface, nobody has ever proposed a final explanatory account for such a difference. Here, I propose such an account. I consider the two possible options as candidates for the explanation of the illusory power of <i>trompe l'oeil</i> perception. The first is that, with <i>trompe l'oeil</i>s, we perceive the surface unconsciously. The second is that, with <i>trompe l'oeil</i>s, we cannot perceive the surface at all, that is, we cannot perceive it either consciously or unconsciously. I show that the second option is the unique plausible option, as it is in line with vision science, and with our received view about the nature of <i>usual picture perception</i>.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51571,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/jaac.12688","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123002442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cox, , , Christoph. Sonic Flux: Sound, Art, and Metaphysics. University of Chicago Press, 2018, viii + 272 pp., 41 b&w illus., $100.00 cloth.","authors":"WESLEY D. CRAY","doi":"10.1111/jaac.12695","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jaac.12695","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51571,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/jaac.12695","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121100570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Waltonian Perceptualism","authors":"MADELEINE RANSOM","doi":"10.1111/jaac.12685","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jaac.12685","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51571,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/jaac.12685","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116602651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guay, Robert , ed. Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment: Philosophical Perspectives. Oxford University Press, 2019, xi + 230 pp., $24.95 paper.","authors":"JOHN GIBSON","doi":"10.1111/jaac.12700","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jaac.12700","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51571,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/jaac.12700","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121262765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aesthetics and the Containment of Grief","authors":"KATHLEEN MARIE HIGGINS","doi":"10.1111/jaac.12686","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jaac.12686","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>My point of departure is the observation that people ubiquitously turn to aesthetic practices in response to the loss of a loved one. I argue that profound loss catapults the bereaved person into an alternate “world” that differs in marked ways from the world we usually occupy, an alternate world lacking even the basic coherence we need to function. Aesthetic practices facilitate restoration of coherence to our experience, as well as reconnection with the social world and recovery from the breakdown that profound loss involves. While the aesthetic notion of closure is frequently invoked in connection with the needs of the bereaved, I suggest that while containing the emotions experienced in connection with loss is vital if they are to be processed, unrealistic aspirations toward closure can encourage expectations that harm the bereaved. By contrast, I suggest that the aims of aesthetically punctuating experience and communicating through aesthetic gestures are beneficial for helping the bereaved adjust to their new circumstances.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51571,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/jaac.12686","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120991122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trivedi, , , Saam. Imagination, Music, and the Emotions: A Philosophical Study. State University of New York Press, 2017, 205 pp., $80.00 cloth.","authors":"BRANDON POLITE","doi":"10.1111/jaac.12708","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jaac.12708","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51571,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/jaac.12708","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114460488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}