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2. 1. An aesthetics of resistance : the open-ended practice of language writing

   Author : Åsa Arketeg; Lars-Olof Åhlberg; Claes Entzenberg; Ming Qian Ma; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Humanities and religion; language writing; the l=a=n=g=u=a=g=e journal; Bruce Andrews; Charles Bernstein; Lyn Hejinian; Ron Silliman; open-ended; language; writing; poetry; poetics; construction; theory; practice; separation; aesthetics; resistance; self-reflexion; avant-garde discourse; postmodernism; society; poststructuralism; critical theory; estetik;

   Abstract : This dissertation investigates the relation between poetry and theory in the poetic practice of language writing. The topic is approached from the idea that language writing takes place in the tension of an open-ended state. READ MORE

4. 2. The Sublime : Precursors and British Eighteenth-Century Conceptions

   Author : Karl Axelsson; Lars-Olof Åhlberg; Tommie Zaine; Christina Svensson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Aesthetics; the sublime; Longinus; Peri Hupsous; British eighteenth century; Samuel H. Monk; criticism of intellectual literature; Thomas Hobbes; imagination; Estetik;

   Abstract : This dissertation studies the attraction of the sublime in British criticism during the eighteenth century, with particular emphasis on the arguments that served as precursors to the interest in the experience of the sublime. The first part explores Samuel H. READ MORE

5. 3. ’’... is it hunger or superabundance that has here become creative?’’ : Nietzsche on Creativity in Art and Life

   Author : Anna-Lena Carlsson; Lars-Olof Åhlberg; Claes Entzenberg; Arnfinn Boe-Rygg; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Aesthetics; Nietzsche; Aesthetics; Art; the Artistic; Aestheticism; Aestheticization; Creativity; Life; Schopenhauer; Shusterman; Welsch; Estetik; Aesthetics; Estetik; Aesthetics; estetik;

   Abstract : Art and the artistic are concepts Friedrich Nietzsche uses in a narrow sense regarding works of art and in a broader sense concerning our lives. He thereby attempts to vitalise the philosophical theme that links life and art. READ MORE

6. 4. Identical, But Still Different : On Artistic Appropriation in Visual Art

   Author : Rikard Ekholm; Claes Entzenberg; Lars-Olof Åhlberg; Sven-Olov Wallenstein; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Visual art; artistic appropriation; intention; context; meta-art; conceptual art; art theory; philosophy of art; Danto; Sturtevant; Levine; Mandiberg.; Estetik; Aesthetics;

   Abstract : In this dissertation about artistic appropriation I acknowledge that something indeed has happened in art. Visual art does not have to look in any special way anymore, or have historically validated content that can be visually grasped. Within this precondition artistic appropriation is situated. READ MORE

7. 5. Mimesis as the Representation of Types : The Historical and Psychological Basis of an Aesthetic Idea

   Author : Michael Ranta; Margaretha Rossholm-Lagerlöf; Staffan Carlshamre; Lars-Olof Åhlberg; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Art theory; aesthetics; cognitive psychology; experimental aesthetics; history of aesthetics; mental representation; aesthetic preference; pictorial representation; prototypicality; schema theory; emotion theory; categorization; behaviourism; Art; Konstvetenskap; Art science;

   Abstract : This work attempts to investigate a long-standing tradition within the history of aesthetics according to which the function of pictorial representation consists, or ought to consist, of the rendering of general or idealized types rather than particulars. Proponents of this view may be found in various versions from antiquity to the present. READ MORE