Donate to CA The free access to this article was made possible by support from readers like you. Please consider donating any amount to help defray the cost of our operation. CA Special Volume Atmospheric Design & Everyday Aesthetics Introduction Zhuofei Wang (Editor) & David Brubaker (Co-Editor) Since the 1990s, especially in the […]
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Vitality Semiotics: The Ever Beautiful and Its Potential for an Intercultural Approach
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Designing Atmospheres: an Aesthetic Practice across the Pluriverse?
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Creating Atmospheres as a Pedagogical Task
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Beauty as Care. Designing Atmospheres for Healthcare Places
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Co-creating Atmospheres: the Use of Design for Vā/Wā, Community, and Common Sense
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How Atmospheres Communicate: Aesthetics of Burial Grounds and Car-Showrooms
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Designing a Smart Atmosphere in São Paulo: Public Spaces and the Green Image
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Aesthetic Evaluation of the Atmosphere in Everyday Environments-A Case Study in Ashiyahama Seaside Town, Japan
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Atmosphere in the Images of Contemporary Chinese Illustrators in Exchange with Western Styles of Depiction
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The Construction of Intercultural Temporal and Spatial Atmospheres in Sino-Italian Art Exchange Exhibitions: the Exhibition “Forms of Time” as an Example
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Toward a Sustainable Attitude: Aesthetics, the Arts and the Environment
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Feeling the Environment: Aesthetic Interestedness and Environmental Aesthetics
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Recovering Landscape and Landscape Beauty in Environmental Aesthetics
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Landscape Education, Enskilment, and Aesthetics: Complex Skills for Our Time
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No Trace, No Waste? The Art of Living in Trashscapes
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Frugality. An Aesthetic Category for a Sustainable Art of Living
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On the Significance of Eco-Phenomenology for Theories of Sustainability
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Imaginaries, Scenarios, and Materialities: The Arts as Part of Ecology
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Virtue Appreciation and Sustainability in Olafur Eliasson’s Ice Watch
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Back to Intermittence, or Rediscovering Web-Materiality: An Artistic Quest for a Sustainable Internet Aesthetics
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An Aesthetics of Minimal Resources: Affective Ecologies at the Encounter with Environmental Ethics in Alicia Barney’s Artistic Practice
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Twenty Years of Contemporary Aesthetics
Twenty Years of Contemporary Aesthetics Introduction Yuriko Saito Contemporary Aesthetics was established twenty years ago by Founding Editor, Arnold Berleant. As the first, exclusively online, open-access journal in aesthetics, it provided an academic space for intellectual discourse unencumbered by various restrictions observed by print and subscription-only publications. More importantly, it encouraged and continues […]
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Contemporary Aesthetics: What’s in a Name?
Contemporary Aesthetics – What’s in a Name? Kathleen Higgins Abstract Drawing on Ossi Naukkarinen’s analysis of the meaning of “contemporary aesthetics,” this article considers several layers of meaning that make the title of this journal appropriate to its mission. After two decades, the journal is doing much to fulfill the promise of its name. […]
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Going Global: A Cautiously Optimistic Manifesto
Going Global: A Cautiously Optimistic Manifesto Bence Nanay Abstract In this article I aim to identify a number of points at which Western[1] aesthetics is atypical in comparison to almost all other aesthetic traditions. If we take the pull of global aesthetics seriously, then we need to be extremely skeptical towards these often unquestioned […]
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Living Aesthetics in China: Confucian Aesthetics as a New Direction
Living Aesthetics in China: Confucian Aesthetics as a New Direction Liu Yuedi Abstract Living Aesthetics (生活美学, Sheng-huo-mei-xue) is a popular key term in Chinese society and culture today. The aestheticization of living, originally rooted in Chinese soil, is authentic Chinese wisdom and now is being fully revitalized. Confucian aesthetics can be classified as Living […]
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Place, Race, Gender and Materiality: Bisa Butler Making the Last, First and the First, Last in the Modern Museum
Place, Race, Gender, and Materiality: Bisa Butler Making the Last, First and the First, Last in the Modern Museum A.W. Eaton and Charles Peterson Abstract Bisa Butler is a contemporary artist who creates stunning portraits composed entirely of textiles. In this article, we argue that one significant aspect of Butler’s oeuvre is the […]
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Decoloniality, Identity, and Aesthetic Publicity
Decoloniality, Identity, and Aesthetic Publicity Monique Roelofs Abstract This essay explores how the decolonial practices of Latina poet Alicia Borinsky in Frivolous Women and Other Sinners (2009) and British filmmaker and installation artist Isaac Julien in Lessons of the Hour (2019) occasion open-ended conceptions of the public that engage economic and technological developments in […]
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Reshaping Aesthetics and Aesthetic Sensibility in a Hybrid Environment
Reshaping Aesthetics and Aesthetic Sensibility in a Hybrid Environment Aleksandra Łukaszewicz Jakub Petri Abstract The contemporary environment in developed countries is highly urbanized and technologized. It is not only physical but also virtual, created with the use of cyber-techniques and the internet. The two layers of the environment are: the physical places, persons, […]
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A Big Disenchantment
A Big Disenchantment Wolfgang Welsch Abstract For millennia, aesthetic activities were expected to improve the world and ourselves. Aesthetics was to hone humanity. We find this conviction in Antiquity, in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, and throughout Modern Times and Modernity, from Plato via Leonardo da Vinci and Schiller to Dewey and Rorty. […]