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Renewing Aesthetics: From Art to Everyday Life
Objectives - 2013 (Proposed/Accomplished)
RS1 Everyday aesthetics and contemporary art: renewing concepts and methods
- O4: To construct and defend a satisfactory cultural concept of art solving the conflicts between speculative (heideggerian) and institutional theories of art.
- 4.1 Comparative analysis of Heidegger’s phenomenological-hermeneutic philosophy of art and the institutional theory of art.
RS2 Application: Aesthetic social situations and techniques of the self: body and fashion
- O5: To critically evaluate theoretical models of the relationship between aesthetics and socio-politics.
- 5.1 Analysis of conventional artistic practices considered as socially or politically relevant and of the presence of other non-conventional "aesthetic objects" into the field of everyday aesthetic experience.
- O6: To formulate a corpus of aesthetic concepts able to account for the interdependency of body and fashion in the process of self-creation.
- 6.1 Review the theories on body and fashion, and scrutinize the recent contributions on body and fashion in the framework of everyday aesthetics.
- Theory-building: shaping a conceptual vocabulary that accounts for interrelated nature of body and fashion.
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