tailieunhanh - DIRECTIONS FOR A NEW AESTHETICISM

One hundred patients were treated in a clinical study with the high-power, pulsed diode laser. The study evaluated different combinations of fluence and pulse width in eight test sites. The patients were followed-up at one, three, six, nine, and 12 months following the last treatment. Ninety-two patients completed the study. Hair loss was assessed from hair counts using digital photographs before treatment and at each follow-up visit. Tattoos identified the location of each test site. | Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics Vol. 2 No. 1 April 2005 Directions for a New Aestheticism Jeffrey Petts University of YORK 1. The idea of a new aestheticism is now explicit in both philosophical aesthetics and cultural theory with the publication of Gary Iseminger s The Aesthetic Function of Art and an anthology of essays edited by John Joughin and Simon Malpas critiquing the anti-aestheticism of literary Both are significant in marking a wider trend reacting to broadly speaking intellectualised and historicised accounts of art refocusing on the idea of appreciation itself and working away from the emphasis on ideology and disregard for the particularity of works in especially literary theory. This broader context also includes renewed debates running within philosophical aesthetics about non-perceptual aesthetic properties and the aesthetic experience of conceptual artworks and about beauty in art considerations that have engaged two philosophers normally identified by their commitment to art theoretical and historical and by extension non-aesthetic accounts of artistic making and viewing namely Noel Carroll and Arthur So Carroll acknowledges that what s at stake is an aesthetic theory of art that is potentially back in business while Danto s surprising theoretic re-engagement with the concept of beauty has been noted by Diarmuid Costello. While acknowledging this background I place this stricture on a new aestheticism that its analysis and beliefs are in a developmental relation to traditional aestheticism. iseminger relates 1 Gary Iseminger A New Aestheticism in The Aesthetic Function of Art Cornell University Press 2004 The New Aestheticism eds. John Joughin and Simon Malpas Manchester University Press 2003 . 2 See Carroll s Non-perceptual Aesthetic Properties Comments for James Shelley and Diarmuid Costello s On Late Style Arthur Danto s The Abuse of Beauty both in The British Journal of Aesthetics 44 4 October 2004 pp 413-423 and pp .