Steve Bachmann, on his book Simulating Sex: Aesthetic Representations of Erotic Activity pointed out that "perhaps one of the most interesting aspects of Madonna's sexual phenomenon is the extent to which her book marked a new threshold in the pornographic franchise".
She specifies, however, that literature is the most effective mode of aesthetic representation, arguing that its ability to illustrate the specific circumstances and problems of people in the world makes literature an especially rich contribution to the "curriculum for world citizenship".
It resists privileging any single discipline of knowledge, preserving a multiplicity that implicates truth in the problem of aesthetic representation.
Thus, aesthetic representation always remains connected to a possible "evocation" of reactions of a human subject (GW 11: 438).
McIntire convincingly portrays a man in the grip of an idea and an ideal — he knows that rock and roll is the future, he has impeccable taste, boundless energy, and a harnessed hedonism that finds its aesthetic representation, and he throws the weight of his formidable character behind the music he loves.
In previous aesthetic literature, the "aesthetics of nature" refers exclusively to human aesthetic experience of nature without consideration of the possibility of aesthetic agency of non-human organisms.
This illuminates Kant's concern in the Transcendental Aesthetic with our representation of space: considering that representation in particular allows Kant to tackle other conceptions of the relation between space and intuition.
Instead, a work of art succeeds when it presents an "aesthetic idea," a representation of the imagination that "at least strive[s] toward something lying beyond the bounds of experience, and thus seek[s] to approximate a presentation of the concepts of reason".
Kant describes an aesthetic idea as "a representation of the imagination that occasions much thinking, though without it being possible for any determinate thought, i.e., concept, to be adequate to it" (§49, 314).
