Browsing by Subject "Aesthetic appreciation"

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    Aesthetic normativity and the expressive perception of nature
    (2021) Pérez Carreño, Francisca; Filosofía
    Abstract The notion of a correct appreciation of nature, like the one put forward in Carlson’s environmental account, has been rejected by many other authors in the aesthetics of the natural environment. Their critics challenge the idea that only scientific categories can ground the aesthetic appreciation of nature as nature, and they hold that there is not a correct way of appreciating nature. However, they may share with Carlson the idea of correctness under an objectivist paradigm of aesthetic appreciation, according to which correctness means the adequation of the experience to properties of the object. My aim in the article is to claim that it is necessary to endorse an aesthetic standard of correctness that takes into consideration the subjective character of aesthetic appreciation. An aesthetic standard of correctness implies universal assent, or validity for everyone in Kantian terms, in place of an objectivist notion. This notion of correctness permits the inclusion of expressive perception of nature as an essential form of aesthetic appreciation.
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    The aesthetic appreciation of design : an interactive aesthetic model
    (Universidad de Murcia, 2022-07-04) Jiménez Sánchez, Lucía; Rubio Marco, Salvador; Escuela Internacional de Doctorado
    This doctoral thesis presents an original model for the aesthetic appreciation of design. Design is a contemporary subject in Aesthetics. It is defined as the process of conceiving and executing ubiquitous objects of use that serve practical purposes, satisfy needs, and enhance practical life. The overarching aim of this thesis is to provide a comprehensive account of the aesthetic value of design. To this end, I develop a model of the act of appreciation in terms of patterns of use, founded on the fundamental insight that the aesthetic properties of design are recognized interactively. The model allows us to situate aesthetic reflection about design in the arena of the conventional and the familiar. Furthermore, it reconciles the functional aspects required for the legitimate aesthetic appreciation of design with the distinctive autonomy of aesthetic value. Recent functional aesthetic accounts provide a framework for the appreciation of design objects that strictly relies upon the normative role of proper practical function. These accounts leave little room for particular uses of the object as those necessary to ground a distinct functional aesthetic value. Consequently, these theories cannot accommodate a full-blooded conception of the aesthetic value of design, beyond the minimal property of appearing to fit a functional utility. By contrast, I argue that an adequate and comprehensive analysis of the aesthetic appreciation of design rejects an inert conception of the object of use and embraces its broader expressive and symbolic aspects. To address the omissions of the existing, narrow- scope alternative theories, I propose an improved normative framework for aesthetic appreciation in terms of the common patterns of use created in relation to design objects over time. The present thesis examines the interactive structure of the act of appreciation from an affective perspective that allows us to incorporate the agential dimension of aesthetic experience in relation to the design object. Ultimately, I argue that locating aesthetic judgments of design within a shared background of patterns of use allows for intersubjective assessment by making particular uses compatible with the ideal universality of aesthetic responses.