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Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2005. Graduate Programme in Philosophy. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 109-111). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pMR11938

Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity Graduate School, 2007. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 151-159).

A puzzle is generated by two intuitions about artworks: 1. There is no prima facie reason to take artworks to be mind-independent objects; 2. Aesthetic judgments are objective. These intuitions seem to be in tension, for if artworks or their aesthetic properties are mind-dependent, how can aesthetic judgments be objective? The common solution to the puzzle lies in rejecting or revising one of the two intuitions. Typically, realists reject 1, and many antirealists reject 2. I develop an antirealist aesthetic theory that accommodates both intuitions, focusing on critical disagreement between epistemically optimal judges, realist difficulties with supervenience and response-dependence, the role of imagination in the experience of artworks, and the metaphorical quality of aesthetic discourse. The hallmark of realism, namely the mind-independence of aesthetic qualities, is an untenable commitment that yields an impoverished view of artworks. A cognitivist anti-realism is available which preserves the objectivity of aesthetic discourse and yields a richer conception of artworks and our interaction with them.

<p> The concept of emergence, and/or emergent properties, is one that has gained resurgence within the realm of various branches of science and the humanities. Emergence is an idea that explains to/for us how dynamical systems, complexes of elements, bodies, and even concepts, begin to exhibit properties and behaviors that are at least seemingly greater than the sum of their parts- how irreducible, novel, complexities arise from constructs of fundamental entities. I argue that in some music of 20th and 21st century American experimentalists, we have music that is under-theorized and lacking in an appropriate contextualization in regards to emergent properties within music. I claim that a careful distinction between indeterminate forms and emergent properties is needed to further develop how we think about these works, and examine them in light of more recent philosophical and aesthetic developments. This paper does not aim to lay out a fully ontology or metaphysics of what emergence is in general, but rather works towards a working definition of a kind of emergence present within the music of various American experimental composers (John Bischoff, Tim Perkis, Chris Brown, David Tudor), and how to apply such a definition of emergence to an aesthetic framework of understanding live electronic music.</p><p>

Orientador: Anderson Deo / Banca: Angélica Lovatto / Banca: Antonio Carlos Mazzeo / Resumo: Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar a particularidade do reflexo estético dos murais de Diego Rivera. Para isso utilizamos as categorias da dialética elaboradas por Georg Lukács. Rivera criou toda uma iconografia dentro do muralismo mexicano para expressar o passado, o presente e o que haveria de ser o futuro para o México. De forma original sintetizou a situação particular do México, dentro dos fundamentos no conceito marxista de luta de classes. Realizamos uma pesquisa bibliográfica e fizemos análise de imagens das obras de Diego Rivera. Compreende-se com esse estudo que tanto o reflexo estético quanto o reflexo científico são formas de análise e compreensão da realidade objetiva. Por fim, entendemos que os murais de Rivera tratam-se de uma "grande obra", dentro do conceito lukasciano, ou seja, ela possibilita aos homens a elevação da sua condição em-si, cotidiana, a uma relação para-si, genérica. / Abstract: This work aims to analyze the particularity of aesthetic reflection of Diego Rivera murals. For that we use the categories of dialetics developed by Georg Lukács. Rivera created a whole iconography within the Mexican mural painting to express the past, the present and what would be the future for Mexico. In a original way Rivera synthesized the particular situation of Mexico, within the grounds in the Marxist concept of class struggle. We performed a literature search and we analysis pictures of Diego Rivera's works. It is understood with this study that both the aesthetic reflection as scientific reflection are forms of analysis and understanding of objective reality. Finally, we understand that the Rivera murals deal is a "high art" within the Lukascian concept, that is, it enables men to increase their condition "in-itself", everyday life, to a relationship "for-itself", generic. / Mestre

The central concern of my thesis is to bring into focus the problematic relation between Georges Rouault's (1871-1958) pictorial vocabulary and his subject matter: on the one hand, abstract mark-making and on the other, a refusal to cede to abstraction or formalism through an insistence that these marks remain yoked to representation. The result is an examination a way of painting that embraces its state of uncertainty, which interrogates its own construction, and strains against the very materiality it simultaneously celebrates. Chapter one traces the critical reaction to Rouault's painting in the early years of the twentieth century, which was at best mystification, and at worst, disgust. This chapter also analyses the thick painterly terms of these paintings and their resistance to conventional meaning, arguing that there are parallels between Rouault's project and contemporary experimental forms of art and literature within modernism. Chapter two continues this exploration, attending to the various relationships between surface and depth that are interrogated by Rouault's canvases. These relationships reveal the deep philosophical and theological questions at stake Rouault's painting. Chapter three explores a theological reading of Rouault's work beginning with the aesthetics of his associate, the French Catholic philosopher, Jacques Maritain - a reading that shows how painting can be true to its material conditions and strain towards a higher, albeit obscure, form of knowledge. Against this, the last chapter argues that the paintings also support the possibility of a bleaker world-view, aligned with Dostoyevsky's kenotic theology, in which matter potentially overwhelms the possibility of transcendental meaning. In conclusion, I argue that Rouault's painting interrogates the vocabulary of modernism and presents the 'fallen' or 'wounded' state of a painting that acknowledges its material conditions.

This thesis establishes groundwork for producing an aesthetic language for theatre technology by creating and testing a model for looking at theatre technologies in a critical manner. This model has several functions: Firstly it identifies theatre technology as something which can have a specific or a psycho-plastic scenographic effect. Through processes of re-invigoration and diversification the model allows a device to be regarded in its own context while historiologically allowing for precedent technologies to be acknowledged and compared. Lastly, because the model is ouroboric, self-consuming, it accounts for theatre technologies to be able to interpolate (and be interpolated by) other technologies whilst maintaining its own aesthetic integrity. This allows a critic to treat technology as a text rather than as a medium, and therefore enables it to be closely "read" as a text of the stage affording the technology a content of its own. Through problematising this model against theories of media and remediation, the thesis observes that the common critical position in theatre and performance studies is to treat theatre technology merely as a theatrical technē -- a tool or craft of the art. The arguments presented in the thesis reposition theatre technology from the position of craft to a position of art -- as alētheia, an artistic truth revealed through poiētic means. In the repositioning of attitudes towards technology, and by identifying theatre technologies as separate alētheuein, this thesis is then able to investigate theatre technologies aesthetically. Examining the contexts of technologies through the ouroboric model, and then critically studying their content, usage and meaning textually, this thesis is able to take a theatrical technological effect and begin to identify its affect. It posits that technology as an art in its own right can be aesthetically criticised and awarded meaning of equal weight to other elements of performance and theatre art.