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John Armstrong (born 1966) is a British writer and philosopher living in Hobart, Australia. He was born in Glasgow and educated at Oxford and London, later directing the philosophy program at the University of London's School of Advanced Study.
Venus de Milo, at the Louvre. Art history is, briefly, the history of art—or the study of a specific type of objects created in the past. [1]Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today, art history examines broader aspects of visual culture, including the various visual and conceptual outcomes ...
John Dewey offers a new theory of art and the aesthetic experience. Dewey proposes that there is a continuity between the refined experience of works of art and everyday activities and events, and in order to understand the aesthetic one must begin with the events and scenes of daily life.
A collection of papers focusing on his original phenomenological work, entitled "John Russon's Phenomenological Encounters," edited by Peter Gratton, was the subject of a recent volume of the journal Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy (Volume 27, number 2, Fall 2023).
The focus of his work are questions of political philosophy, ethics, art and media philosophy, as well as questions of art and literature. [6] In his most recent works, Trawny focuses the elaboration of a philosophical understanding of globalization and cosmopolitanism, especially in his books Adyton and Medium and Revolution.
John Golding CBE (10 September 1929 – 9 April 2012) [1] was a British artist, art scholar, and curator, perhaps best known for his seminal text Cubism: A History and an Analysis, 1907–1914, [2] first published in 1959 and later revised in several subsequent editions.
John Mueller Anderson (July 29, 1914 – December 3, 1999) was an American philosopher. [1] He was known for his expertise on post-Kantian philosophy , philosophy of art and logic . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Anderson was Evan Pugh Professor of Philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University .
The theory of art is also impacted by a philosophical turn in thinking, not only exemplified by the aesthetics of Kant but is tied more closely to ontology and metaphysics in terms of the reflections of Heidegger on the essence of modern technology and the implications it has on all beings that are reduced to what he calls 'standing reserve ...