著者

中村 紀彦

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美学 (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.69, no.2, pp.49, 2018 (Released:2020-03-23)

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In this thesis, I discuss the projected-image practices of Thai filmmaker, Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Above all, his practices have been derived largely from his projectedimage practice, mainly by Ji-hoon Kim. Although these deal with Apichatpong’s projected-image practices in the framework of “cinematic” video installation, he only analyzes feature films so as to derive the characteristics of Apichatpong’s works from them. For this reason, previous research has overlooked his practices wherein the different elements of projected image/screen/viewer are intertwined. I examine the discussion of “cinematic” video installation, which is based on the preceding research, including the relationship between exhibition space and viewers by considering the installation work Phantoms of Nabua. This work attempts to contest the exhibition space and the local (Nabua village in Northeast Thailand). By intertwining multiple light sources/projected images/screens of this work, the viewer in the exhibition space is virtually placed in the local “site.” In this way, the viewer’s “decentralization” is promoted. Furthermore, by casting projection lights on the viewers, they appear as ghosts. Apichatpong’s practices are to reveal the presentation/ representation between cinema and installation. Finally, the overlapping of the “site” and ghosting of the viewer, allow for a reconsideration of the viewer him/herself in the installation art.

著者

新田 孝行

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美学 (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.60, no.2, pp.44-55, 2009-12-31 (Released:2017-05-22)

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The development of Paul de Man's deconstruction as well as his theory of reading is closely related to the transformation of his discourse about music. In "The Rhetoric of Blindness (1971)", he states that melody is superior to harmony since the former deconstructs the mistaken illusion of imitation as his famous "deconstructive reading" does. Melody functions as a metaphor of the reading. What is at stake in "Shelley Disfigured (1979)", however, is neither melody nor harmony but measure. Measure is defined as articulated sound, present in both music and language. Reading merely according to the rules of measure or punctuation, called "syntactical or grammatical scansion", is another more important de Manian deconstruction, for the difference between the order of words (grammar) and their meanings (rhetoric), which de Man sees as most problematic, could be deconstructed by accident, as a result of failure to decide how to punctuate sentences in the process of the reading.

著者

平芳 幸浩

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美学 (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.51, no.4, pp.37-48, 2001

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If it is true that Pop Art is the logical extension of Ready-Made, it is to the extent that Pop Art shows, symptomatically, the premise that creative act is no less the naming one as "this is art, " so that each speaker is virtually an artist. In the relation to this premise, how was vulgarity questioned in the critical discourse on Pop Art? The "cool" expression of Pop Art cannot free from the ambivalence of interpretation. Under such condition, three discursive circuits were set up around the vulgarity of Pop Art. First, the vulgarity was negatively interpreted as a peculiarity of degraded American society. Then, Pop Art was "naively" defined as the effective criticism of the society. And finally, the individual visions of Pop Artists were discovered behind their vulgarity. In either circuit, the criticisms avoided the problem that art was reduced to the only utterance, protecting the opposition of the artists against the society. By the same token, Ready-Made was interpreted as an pop icon of the contemporary society or its vicious symbol, and the "optical indifference" as the characteristic of Ready-Made was completely negated. Such distortion of the discourse is a symptomatic reaction to the reductive premise.

著者

吉田 寛

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美学 (ISSN:05200962)

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vol.61, no.1, pp.25-36, 2010-06-30 (Released:2017-05-22)

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Scholars in many disciplines have talked about the "hegemony of vision" in the modern Western culture and philosophy. We also know that the most critical issue of modern philosophy of perception had been the compatibility between vision and touch, as viewed in the prolonged discussion of Molyneux's Question. But, on the contrary, we know very little about the significance of audition and hearing in the tradition of modern philosophy. This paper is thus intended as a historical sketch of the status of hearing, examining the texts of three philosophers. For Herder, the ear is the most nearest sense to the soul, and the audition stands in the middle of our five senses, dominating the others. But, at the same time, he also attaches great importance to touch, inheriting the tradition of Molyneux's Question, and therefore presupposes a kinship between hearing and touch. Kant exiles the ear from his conception of the critique of judgment, preferring the eye as a normative sense for disinterested and formal judgment. But he emphasizes a moral function of the ear in his critique of practical reason, as an organ hearing the voice of reason, i.e. the divine voice. The ear, finally, gains a definitive advantage over the eye with Hegel. He describes the progress of Romantic art from painting to music as a process of the "negation of dimension." In his view, time is negation (or sublation) form of space, and equally the audition is that of vision. We can say therefore that the hypothetical "hegemony of vision" was never stable, and the status of seeing has always been challenged and undermined by the hearing in the course of modern philosophy.

著者

鯖江 秀樹

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美學 (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.59, no.1, pp.127-139, 2008-06-30

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This paper aims at investigating the peculiar aspects of Italian architectural culture under the fascist regime. Edoardo Persico, the most important critic of architecture between the two wars, recognized well that political powers and architecture crossed on the critical discourse. From this point of view, he defined the short history of this Italian movement as a process from 'europeismo' to 'romanita', and to 'mediterraneita'. These notions do not imply the supremacy of Italian ethic and nation, but demonstrate that young architects, who had been eager to introduce European modern building styles into their own country, was subordinated to political requests of fascism. Yet it was more important for Persico to reveal the rhetorical mechanism that obstructed the European artistic taste ('gusto europeo') and also disguised the Italian one ('gusto italiano') as they were. Hence his analysis of a lot of reviews appeared on the catalogues or magazines proved the diversity of the modern culture. Persico was the only writer that could describe the whole space of critical discourse as a matrix of fascist cultures with some paradoxical characters.

著者

平野 千枝子

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美学 (ISSN:05200962)

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vol.61, no.2, pp.97-108, 2010-12-31 (Released:2017-05-22)

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Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) is best known for his 'building cuts', which involved the physical invasion of vacant urban buildings. Through these works, he criticized urban renewal and the standardization of space in order to achieve industrial efficiency. Though they received less attention than his architectural works, Matta-Clark was also heavily involved in 'culinary' projects from the outset of his artistic career. The most important of these was 'Food', a restaurant he opened in 1971 along with a group of collaborating artists. At the restaurant, Matta-Clark emphasized human activity and allowed for the purchase, preparation and serving of food to act as a metaphor for cultural transformation. Later, in 1975, he built on 'Food' by giving a performance called 'Cuisse de Bceuf' that involved his roasting 750 pounds of beef in front of the then under-construction Pompidou Center in Paris. Earlier in his career, Matta-Clark also used food as a motif in works such as 'Agar' and 'Museum', which highlight the natural ability of mold to transform the ingredients of food. These projects set out to demonstrate the variety and vitality of unrestricted nature. I divide Matta-Clark's culinary projects into representations of 'natural' and 'cultural' transformation (after Levi-Strauss' The Raw and the Cooked') in order to discuss how Matta-Clark's motif of 'food as symbol of transformation' compliments his architectural work by criticizing the scientific and functional basis of urban renewal.

著者

三浦 俊彦

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美学 (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.69, no.2, pp.90, 2018 (Released:2020-03-23)

著者

平井 倫行

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美学 (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.69, no.2, pp.25, 2018 (Released:2020-03-23)

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This paper examines the Japanese term irezumi which signifies tattoo. From ancient times, irezumi has also been called horimono (something that has been carved) in Japan. However, neither does irezumi imply to carve the body, nor can it be equated to sculpture. It has often been referred to as ‘painting on skin’. However, irezumi is not the art of drawing or painting on the skin. It is distinct from that. The above examples are words which express irezumi, but none of them are, strictly speaking, appropriate terminology. Irezumi involves the piercing of skin with a needle, and a needle is used to sew cloth, not to ‘carve’ into or draw on something. How, then, did irezumi come to be called horimono (sculpture)? This study examines the ambiguity of the term irezumi by documenting it in manuscripts dating from the beginning of the modern times to the Meiji period. This study also explores the aspect of costume that the term appears to articulate.

著者

河合 大介

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美学 (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.63, no.2, pp.1-12, 2012

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After "The Intentional Fallacy" (1946/54) by W. K. Wimsatt Jr. and M. Beardsley, the role of the artist's intention in the interpretation of artwork has been one of the central topics in analytical aesthetics. Recently, this issue has been mainly debated between moderate actual (MAI) and hypothetical intentionalism (HI). In this paper, I demonstrate some difficulties of MAI, comparing it with HI. First, I survey Carroll's version of MAI and point out its main arguments: accessibility to "actual intention" and the reliance on private documents. I examine them and show that the discrimination of MAI from HI is unclear. Additionally, I insist that, against Hans Maes' arguments, MAI has no advantages in interpreting contemporary art, because MAT overlooks the distinction between "semantic" and "categorial" intention, which Levinson draws. Since contemporary art employs diverse materials which have no code to mean something, semantic intention cannot play any role in making such artwork. Instead, categorial intention is the precondition for making it art and tells us how it is to be conceived or approached. Through this examination, I argue that there is no reason to maintain MAT, at least in Carroll's version.

著者

石田 圭子

出版者

美学会 ; 1950-

雑誌

美学 = Aesthetics (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.71, no.1, pp.49-60, 2020

著者

稲垣 眞美

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美學 (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.33, no.3, 1982-12-31

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"Daigomi", which we find in such expressions as "daigomi of the piano-play" and "daigomi of fiction", is commonly used as a critical term to signify an ideal taste beyond description. "Daigo" originally comes from the passage in the sutra of Nirvana- "the cow gives milk ; the milk turns to sour thick milk ; the sour thick milk to fresh butter ; the fresh butter to rich butter ; and the rich butter to "daigo"-creamy essence-which is the best of all." "Daigo" is called sarpir manda in Sanskrit, which means the supremely tasty food finally produced from milk. In Buddhism this is compared to Nirvana, the ultimate spiritual state as was explained in Milinda Panha, - "As in daigo there are colour, smell and taste of excellent quality, so in Nirvana there are colour called virtue, and taste and smell called commandment." On the other hand, in the Western aesthetics Hegel and E. v. Hartmann regarded these senses as inferior to the senses of sight and hearing, and excluded them from the aesthetic category, which has become prevalent since then. But such Encyclopaedists as Condillac, Voltaire and Diderot were against the idea, and did justice to the senses of taste and smell. Especially Diderot almost grasped the meaning of "daigomi" and Nirvana in his definition of "delicieux". So we shall have to revaluate those senses in aesthetics, giving a deeper insight into their sensual and spiritual pleasure and beauty.

著者

城丸 美香

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美學 (ISSN:05200962)

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vol.58, no.1, pp.15-28, 2007-06-30

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Walter Benjamin made many comments on contemporary arts. In those comments, he consistently criticized Albert Renger=Patzsch, especially his collection of photographs, The World is Beautiful. This paper considers why Benjamin criticized Renger=Patzsch from the viewpoint of the concept of aura and what elements of his photographs Benjamin thought dangerous in relation to the political aestheticism of fascism. Benjamin distinguished between the aura of work of art and that of commodity, and gave negative evaluation to the latter. Thus in previous studies, the former has been taken as authentic while the latter as fake. And it has been argued that there remains no authentic aura after the "decay of aura". In contrast, I interpret aura as having broader implications, i.e., as a "reactivation of mythic power of objects by empathy". So I think that the aura was interrupted by the shock of the invention of reproductive technology and, through this shock, was transformed from that of work of art to that of commodity while maintaining its mythic power. The aura of Renger=Patzsch's photographes depends precisely on this mythic power transmitted to the world of commodity.

著者

篠田 大基

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美學 (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.60, no.2, pp.56-69, 2009-12-31

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Steve Reich (1936-), in his essay "Music as a Gradual Process" (1968), wrote that "a compositional process and a sounding music […] are one and the same thing." His aesthetic creed of "perceptible processes," indicated in these words, is known as the basic idea of minimal music. Although minimal music has been considered a counterpart of minimal art, this essay first appeared in the exhibition catalogue of "Anti-Illusion: Procedures/Materials" (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1969), an exhibition recognized as a threshold of postminimalism in the plastic arts. In this paper, I would like to clarify a linkage between Reich's music and postminimalist art in view of his involvement in the "Anti-Illusion" show. The theme of the "Anti-Illusion" show was to refocus on the process of making art. By emphasizing the processes and materials of the works, the participating artists tried to deny illusion and expose the reality of art. Among these works, Reich performed his Pendulum Music, in which he made the sounding process visible as microphones' swinging. This piece clearly demonstrates that Reich's claim in "Music as a Gradual Process" was propounded in connection with postminimalist art as an attempt to disclose musical processes and reveal the real.

著者

西村 清和

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美学 (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.60, no.1, pp.2-15, 2009

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Ruins are places in which memories have been accumulated. For understanding the aesthetic phenomenon of ruins, we must make it clear what places really are. M. de Certeau considers a place as a configuration of the elements distributed within the relations of coexistence and a space as a crossing of historical subjects and 'a practiced place'. This conception of place is close to Gibson's 'ground theory' of space perception. The environment we perceive is, first of all, not an empty space but a place as a surface of the earth on which we are standing. The perception of the environment as the persisting structure of surfaces accompanies the perception of an instantaneous self, including the head, body, arms, and hands. And the nonperceptual awareness such as memory or expectation is made possible by the fact that the concurrent perception of the persistence of place and that of the change of a moving self are concurrent. Memory and expectation open a space of history. Yet the space turns back to the persisting place of a ruin when the history has come to be forgotten. The poetics of ruins consists not in retelling a history but in the awareness of the persistent linkage between us and the past.

著者

山縣 煕

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美學 (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.53, no.3, pp.1-13, 2002-12-31

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Cet article a pour but de developper le theme qui a ete lance dans mon article precedent : "Le corps comme evenement" (paru dans le Bulletin des recherches : La Nouvelle possibilite de l'esthetique-son sens et sa limite), ou l'on a considere le corps comme centre des sensations. Le corps comme lieu des desaccords et discords est en meme temps lieu des evenements et de la naissance des sensations. A propos de l'oeuvre d'art, on dit parfois le style de l'artiste, de l'ecole et du temps. Cela est possible, parce que l'oeuvre d'art, elle a aussi un corps. Or la creation de l'oeuvre par l'artiste est un evenement et notre rencontre avec l'oeuvre l'est aussi. A ce moment, non seulement les relations entre l'artiste et l'oeuvre, et l'oeuvre et nous, mais celle-meme entre nous et l'artiste est reciproque. Cette reciprocite est le plus important des indices de l'evenement.

著者

新田 孝行

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美學 (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.60, no.2, pp.44-55, 2009-12-31

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The development of Paul de Man's deconstruction as well as his theory of reading is closely related to the transformation of his discourse about music. In "The Rhetoric of Blindness (1971)", he states that melody is superior to harmony since the former deconstructs the mistaken illusion of imitation as his famous "deconstructive reading" does. Melody functions as a metaphor of the reading. What is at stake in "Shelley Disfigured (1979)", however, is neither melody nor harmony but measure. Measure is defined as articulated sound, present in both music and language. Reading merely according to the rules of measure or punctuation, called "syntactical or grammatical scansion", is another more important de Manian deconstruction, for the difference between the order of words (grammar) and their meanings (rhetoric), which de Man sees as most problematic, could be deconstructed by accident, as a result of failure to decide how to punctuate sentences in the process of the reading.

著者

筧 菜奈子

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美学 (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.65, no.1, pp.109-120, 2014-06-30 (Released:2017-05-22)

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This paper considers the influence from Oriental Calligraphy in Jackson Pollock's (1912-1956) "black paintings". The Black paintings are the series of monochromes that Pollock produced from 1951 to 53. In these works, Pollock bled the ink on canvas. By these features, it has been considered that Pollock was influenced by Calligraphy. But Clement Greenberg, who is influential in the study of Pollock, eliminated the influence from Oriental art in Pollock's works. And his purpose is to present Pollock as a legitimate successor of European modernism. Therefore no one proved it clearly. However, in fact, there were many artists that were interested in Calligraphy around Pollock. Then, Pollock possessed some books about Oriental culture, and used tools of Calligraphy. Therefore Pollock was surely influenced by Calligraphy. Moreover, this Paper pointed out that Pollock often depicted letters. In the black paintings, Pollock also depicted the pictographic images that he had already painted before. The reason that Pollock was influenced by calligraphy may come from such concern about letters. Thus, adopting a style of Calligraphy, Pollock created a new way that could depict the past pictographic images in the black paintings.

著者

松野 敬文

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美学 (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.63, no.2, pp.158, 2012-12-31 (Released:2017-05-22)

著者

大愛 崇晴

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美學 (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.53, no.1, pp.57-70, 2002-06-30

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While it has been often emphasized that Monteverdi's seconda pratica opens the way to the essential idea of Baroque music : musical expression of passions of the text, Zarlino has been supposed to be a great defender of the more conservative style, prima pratica. However, Zarlino also develops the idea of "imitation of words" on the basis of the medieval conception of music as quadrivium. Zarlino supports the traditional Pythagorean view defining music as Harmonia, which is based on the simple proportions of the integral numbers and accordingly connotes consonances which sound agreeably to the sense. His view of music is therefore primarily speculative and mathematically analyzable by the reason. On the other hand, in the Renaissance humanistic thought, Zarlino seeks restoration of emotional effects of music in antiquity. He asserts the arousal of passions is caused by the very words to be set, those Harmonia (tune) and rhythm which are suitable to their emotional contents, and moreover, he stresses on the ethical purpose of music. But, Zarlino admits only the polyphony composed of consonances, as device of expression. He considers mathematical harmonic match as the most intrinsic part of music, recognizing the important role of words in music.

著者

二宮 望

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美学 (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.70, no.2, pp.49-60, 2019 (Released:2021-05-08)

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Der vorliegende Aufsatz beschäftigt sich mit der Briefmarkenforschung Warburgs und setzt sich zum Ziel, seine politische Ikonographie darzustellen. 1927 hat Warburg mit dem derzeitigen Reichskunstwart Edwin Redslob eine Tagung über „die Briefmarke“ veranstaltet, um ihre Bedeutung als politisches Medium zu untersuchen. Es ist verständlich, dass die Briefmarke auf Grund ihrer örtlichen Beweglichkeit für Warburg ein interessanter Gegenstand war. Mit den Begriffen „Bilderfahrzeug“ sowie „Schlagbilder“ hat er seinen Blick auf die seit langem in der Kunstgeschichte unterschätzten Werke wie Tapisserien bzw. politische Plakate im Zeitalter der Reformation gerichtet. In der Briefmarkenforschung wurden der seefahrende Neptun und Benito Mussolini zu den Hauptmotiven. Dabei wird die komplexe Beziehung zwischen der Tradition der Repräsentation der politischen Theologie und die der heidnischen Antike entsprungene Bildtheorie analysiert. Die mimischen Körper von Herrschern, die nach dem historischen Muster in verschiedener Weise stilisiert und inszeniert werden, sind zur Grundlage der abendländischen Politik geworden. Die von Warburg entworfene politische Ikonographie erkennt die Bewegung und die Wirkung der Bilder im politischen Bereich und fordert uns stets zur historischen Reflexion auf.