Beethoven explored different styles and broke new ground; Mr. Lieberson, after studying and incorporating 12-tone techniques into his scores, rejected academic formulas for a more lyrical, engaging aesthetic.
There is nothing wrong with making technology hyper visible and an engaging aesthetic experience, but it's equally interesting to design something that simply melts into the flow of our lives, like the electromagnetic waves that enable the phone and internet.
Roth was deeply influenced by Joyce when he wrote the book, though he now rejects Joycean detatchment"in favor of a more culturally engaged aesthetic.
Graduate students and faculty members across the humanities present and discuss work in progress that engages aesthetic objects, their contexts, reception, and theoretical possibilities.
The 20th and 21st Century Workshop (C20/21), sponsored by the Council on Advanced Studies, provides a space for graduate students and faculty members across the humanities to present and discuss work in progress that engages aesthetic and cultural objects produced in the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as their associated contexts, reception, and theoretical problems.
As the work described here shows, distinct processes in the brain are engaged in aesthetic judgments.
Here music emerges "embodied," that is, as part and parcel of human beings working in the fields, migrating, dancing, making aesthetic choices, engaging with the market, responding to state promotion, and in general becoming part of larger sociocultural processes.
Artists were engaged in an aesthetic space race, as sculptors pursued free-standing, in-the-round figures, and painters one-point perspective.
Taking photos is an interesting game mechanic because it has the one-button immediacy of firing a weapon (it even shares the same verb: "to shoot"), but it asks the player to engage with the aesthetic environment, rather than merely utilising the surroundings as a venue for slaughter.
Openness can be intellectual, characterized by a searching for truth and the drive to engage with ideas; aesthetic, characterized by the drive to explore fantasy and art and experience emotional absorption in beauty; or affective, characterized by exploring the depths of human emotion.
It is, after all, to experience that we must turn if we are to understand the value of the aesthetic realm our reason for engaging with it, studying it, and adding to it.
