136 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
136 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
136 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Is the celebrated elegance of Cycladic marble figurines an effect their Early Bronze Age producers intended? Can one adequately appreciate an Assyrian regal statue described by a cuneiform inscription as beautiful? What to make of the apparent aesthetic richness of the traditional cultures of Melanesia, which, however, engage in virtually no recognizable aesthetic discourse? Questions such as... Read more
Chapter 1. Postformalism: An Introduction
Chapter 2. Aesthetic Suspicions
Chapter 3. What Is a Format?
Chapter 4. A Theory of Image Format
Chapter 5. Universal Style
Chapter 6. Aesthetic Analysis and Its Formats
Biography
Jakub Stejskal is a MASH Junior research group leader at the Department of Art History, Masaryk University. Previously, he held fellowship positions at eikones (University of Basel) and Freie Universität Berlin. His recent work has appeared in Critical Inquiry, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, British Journal of Aesthetics, and RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics. He is also an associate editor of the academic journal Estetika.
