Living Debates in Aesthetics
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9781350539976 (ISBN)
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Living Debates in Aesthetics curates a broad selection of influential articles published over the last 20 years. Focusing exclusively on contemporary discussions, it covers topics connected to the new age of digital art, video games, changing copyright laws about images, art on the streets, and art of the body.
Each chapter contains three articles which provide opposing viewpoints. This debate structure shows how philosophers engage in ongoing debates about everyday issues. From what is wrong to female nudes to the work of immoral artists, we are invited to view all sides of a debate and learn how to construct arguments.
Featuring a diverse and balanced line-up of authors, this anthology represents an exciting mix of artworks including computer art, food, stand-up comedy and sport. Articles tackle pressing issues in race, cultural appropriation and cancel culture, bringing to life philosophical ideas about taste, experience, and judgement. An accompanying online website offers further engagement through specially-commissioned interviews with each of the authors.
What Living Debates in Aesthetics reveals is that ideas in aesthetics are all around us. Through this wide and varied collection of recent writing by esteemed philosophers we learn exactly why the objects and experiences we encounter on a daily basis are philosophically interesting.
For anyone looking for an inclusive and relevant introduction to aesthetics this is the place to start.
Sarah E. Worth is Professor of Philosophy at Furman University, USA.
Introduction
1. Video Games
Grant Tavinor, Video Games as Art
Nele Van de Mosselaer, Imaginative Desires and Interactive Fiction: On Wanting to Shoot Fictional Zombies
Marissa D. Willis, Choose your own adventure: Examining the fictional content of video games as interactive fictions.
2. Tattoos
Laura Sizer, The Art of Tattoos
Eva Dadlez, Ink, Art and Expression: Philosophical Questions about Tattoos
Stephen Davies, Scarification and Tattoos
3. Computer Art
Gemma Arguello Manresa, Participatory Computer-Based Art and Distributed Creativity: The Case of Tactical Media
Dominic Lopes, A Computer Art Form
Carolyn L. Kane, ‘Programming the Beautiful’ Informatic Color and Aesthetic Transformations in Early Computer Art
4. Sexiness
Anne Eaton, What's Wrong With the (Female) Nude?
Zoey Lavelle, What's Wrong with the (White) Female Nude
Matt Drabeck, Pornographic Subordination, Power, and Feminist Alternatives
5. Race and Beauty
Ronald Sundstrom, Mixed Race Looks
Eva Kit Wah Man, Female Bodily Aesthetics, Politics, and Feminine Ideals of Beauty in Chinese Traditions
Paul Taylor, Black Aesthetics
6. Aesthetics of Bodies
Charlene Weaving and Jessica Samson, The naked truth: disability, sexual objectification, and the ESPN Body Issue
Anne Eaton, Taste in Bodies and Fat Oppression
Fedwa Malti-Douglas, Beauty Between Disability and Gender: Frida Kahlo in Paper Dolls
7. Majority and Minority Artists
Dan Flory, Audience, Implicit Racial Bias, and Cinematic Twists in Zootopia
Meilin Chinn, Race Magic and the Yellow Peril
Nkiru Nzegwu, African Art in Deep Time: De-race-ing Aesthetics and De-racializing Visual Art
8. Joint Authorship
Sondra Bacharach, "We" Did It: From Mere Contributors to Coauthors
Paisley Livingston and Carol Archer, Artistic Collaboration and the Completion of Works of Art
Laura Biron and Elena Cooper, Authorship, Aesthetics and the Artworld
9. Cultural Appropriation
Thi Nguyen and Matthew Strohl, Cultural Appropriation and the Intimacy of Groups
James O. YoungArt, authenticity and appropriation
Thomas Heyd, Rock Art Aesthetics and Cultural Appropriation
10. Cuteness and Kitsch
Erik Anderson, Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Tavia Nyong’o, Racial Kitsch and Performance
Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten Kitsch and Bullshit
11. Fraudulent and Authentic
Ross Bowden, What Is Wrong with an Art Forgery?: An Anthropological Perspective
Darren Hudson Hick, Forgery and Appropriation in Art
Sherri Irvin, Forgery and the Corruption of Aesthetic Understanding
12. Morally Questionable Art
Laura D’Olimpio , When Good Art Is Bad: Educating the Critical Viewer
Mary Beth Willard, Why its ok to enjoy the work of immoral artisits
Bernard Wills and Jason Holt, Art by Jerks
13. Food as Art
Eileen John, Meals, Art and artistic value
Tiziana Andina and Carola Barbero, Can Food Be Art?
Gabriele Tomasi, On Wines as Works of Art
14. Food and Pleasure
Ben Davids and Sarah Worth, Epicurus, Pleasure, and the 21st Century Diet
Carolyn Korsmeyer, Tastes and Pleasures
Richard Shusterman, Somaesthetics and the fine art of eating
15. Food Porn
Sarah Worth, Food Porn
Erin Metz McDonnell, Food Porn: The Conspicious Consumption of food in the age of digital reproduction
Nicola Perullo, On the correspondence between visual and gustatory perception
Fashion High and Low
Louise Collins, Fashion Dolls and Feminism: How do you solve a problem like Barbie
Eileen Boris, Fashion Works
Cecilie Basberg Neumann, Dangerous Subject: The Fashion Model and the Beauty/Narcissm Double Bind
16. Street Art
Nick Riggle, Street Art: The Transfiguration of the Commonplaces
Sandra Bachrach, Street art and consent
Joanna Mann, Towards a politics of whimsy: yarn bombing the city
17. Urban Aesthetics
Nathalie Blanc, Cockroaches, or Worlds as Images
Sanna Lehtinen,New Public Monuments: Urban Art and Everyday Aesthetic Experience
Carolyn Korsmeyer, Aesthetic Deception: On Encounters with the Past
18. Stand-Up Comedy
Phillip Deen, What Could It Mean to Say that Today's Audiences are Too Sensitive?
Cynthia Willett and Julie Willett, Feminist Anger and Joy from Roseanne Barr to Margaret Cho and Wanda Sykes
David Giotta, Black Nerds: New Directions in African American Humor
19. Aesthetics of Sport
Jeanette Bicknell, Aesthetics of the martial arts
Jonathan Flowers, Aikido as a Martial Art Style
Lisa Jones, All caught up in the kayfabe: understanding and appreciating pro-wrestling
20. Everyday Aesthetics
Yuriko Saito, Laundry
Gabriela Farias, Everyday Aesthetics in Contemporary Art
Tom Leddy, The Aesthetics of Junkyards and Roadside Clutter
21. Good Taste
David Gandolfo & Sarah Worth, Global Standpoint Aesthetics
Kevin Melchionne, Acquired Taste
Kevin Sweeney, 'Sideways': Does Good Taste Improve Moral Character?
22. Bad Taste
John Morreall, What's So Bad about Bad Taste?
Uku Tooming, The Puzzle of Good Bad Movies
Per Algander, Bad Art and Good Taste
23. Cancel Culture
Andrea Sauchelli, Aesthetic Value, Artistic Value, and Morality
Mary Beth Willard, #Cancel Everything
David Edgar, Shouting fire: art, religion and the right to be offended
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 17.9.2026 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 169 x 244 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781350539976 / 9781350539976 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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