Against Theory—Again (Though with Reservations) Ivan Gaskell Abstract In Thinking with Images (2019), John Carvalho proposes an “aesthetics without theory,” a phrase to be taken rhetorically rather than literally, for he accepts that percipients of artworks bring a theoretical knowledge to their encounters. He seeks to balance appropriate theoretical knowledge, notably Gibson’s theory of […]
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Against Theory—Again (Though with Reservations)
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A Role for Empathy in Decolonizing Aesthetics: Unlikely Lessons from Roger Fry
A Role for Empathy in Decolonizing Aesthetics: Unlikely Lessons from Roger Fry Ivan Gaskell Abstract Artist and art historian Roger Fry used Paul Gauguin’s 1896 painting, Poèmes barbares, to advertise his 1910 exhibition, Manet and the Post-Impressionists. In Vision and Design (1920), Fry promoted the so-called “primitive” art of Oceania and sub-Saharan Africa as […]