A Philosophy of Cultural Scenes in Art and Popular Culture

ISBN-13: 9781032536101 / Twarda / 2023 / 128 str.

Slovakia) Kovalcik Jozef (Comenius University in Bratislava

Opis

This book seeks to understand culture through the lens of scenes, analyzing them aesthetically and culturally as well as understanding them through the frameworks of gender, social networks, and art worlds.

Spis treści

1.     Three Giants: Vivienne Westwood, Roman Jakobson and René Magritte, and their vertical and horizontal travels through scenes  2.     Sketching Out the Structure of the Scenes  3.     The Scene-Driven Art Theories of Danto and Sontag – and the Urban Thinking of the Twentieth-Century Philosophers  4.     If Beale Street Could Talk like Greenwich Village: Scenes, Class, Ethnicity and Some Notes on Contemporary Urban Studies Through Scenes  5.     Aesthetics of the Scenes  6.     Film Scenes: Professionals, Institutionally Homeless Filmmakers, and Film Enthusiasts

O autorze

Max Ryynänen is Principal Lecturer of Theory of Visual Culture at Aalto University.

Jozef Kovalčik is lecturer of Aesthetics at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia and director of Slovak Arts Council.