Sirridge and Armelagos (1977) follow Goodman's semiotic theory of expression in dance in holding that a dance is expressive when it contains aesthetic properties that are exemplified through the metaphor provided by a dance's abstract structure.
Jose Damasceno, visiting from Brazil, departs from this contained, neatnik aesthetic with his sliced-up patch of industrial carpeting, and we break out of the domestic sphere with Jay Batlle's shattered fire escape, Jason Meadows's bicycle-less bike tires, and Liz Craft's tilted windmill.
Temporariness is important to him, he says, for containing an aesthetic quality he calls the "presence of the missing .The project will be Christo's first big work for ten years, and the first since the death of his wife and collaborator, Jeanne-Claude in 2009.
But instead of being self-contained aesthetic images, these works became more like signs pointing to the outside world for their content.
In Plato's "Republic," Socrates casts doubt on the notion of a self-contained aesthetic experience, saying, "As if music and poetry were only play and did no harm at all".
But while Mr. Maxwell and Ms. LeCompte have each established international reputations by creating self-contained aesthetic worlds, it's their differences that both drew them to the collaboration and make it a challenge.
His pieces contain a dual aesthetic, as at home in the office as they are on stage, of an elongated silhouette made modern with geometric flourishes and made comfortable and – most importantly – flattering, by an ingenuity of cut that includes complex and planal structuring of jackets and trousers, inside and out.
Of course it's not hard to envisage Blinq mashing up its forthcoming AI attractiveness smarts with its existing location-based features so it could, in future, point users to the locations containing the most aesthetic singles — as judged by its robotic averages.
Wolff never devoted a whole work to aesthetics, but many of the ideas that would influence subsequent aesthetic theory are contained in his Rational Thoughts on God, the World, and the Soul of Man, his "German Metaphysics," first published in 1719.
From its opening clutch of sustained tones, the piece offered a familiar hit of Conrad's drone aesthetic – but it also contained some surprises.
