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Author Böhme, Gernot.

Title The Aesthetics of Atmospheres / Gernot Böhme, edited by Jean-Paul Thibaud
Published Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements from the International Ambiances Network; Foreword; Introduction; The aesthetic theory of atmospheres; Applications of the concept of atmospheres; Conclusion; Notes; PART I: Theory: aesthetics and aesthetical economy; 1. Atmosphere as a fundamental concept of a new aesthetics; Atmosphere; A new aesthetics; Benjamin's aura; The concept of atmosphere in the philosophy of Hermann Schmitz; The thing and its ecstasies; The making of atmospheres; Conclusion; Notes
2. Atmosphere as an aesthetic conceptBetween; Spatiality and presence; Performance and event; Staging; Construction and criticism; 3. The art of the stage set as a paradigm for an aesthetics of atmospheres; Making atmospheres; Atmosphere -- a familiar yet extremely vague phenomenon; Reception aesthetics and production aesthetics; Phantastike techne; Conclusion; Notes; 4. Kant's aesthetics: a new perspective; Kant's negative aesthetics; Beautiful form: Kant's examples; Communicability and sociability; Education; Conclusion; Notes; 5. On beauty; The riddle of beauty; The classical answers
New experiencesNew needs; Notes; 6. On synesthesia; Of an incidental nature?; Goethe; What is perception?; The production of atmospheres in architecture; Notes; 7. Contribution to the critique of the aesthetic economy; Introduction; Reconstruction of critical theory; Shifting the fronts of critique; Notes; PART II: Aesthetics of nature and art; 8. Aesthetic knowledge of nature; The new aesthetics; Nature; Aesthetic knowledge of nature; Communication in nature; The ecstatics of nature; The cipher of nature; Notes; 9. Nature in the age of its technical reproducibility; Introduction; Hubris?
Nature and technologyNature and art; The nature that we are; Conclusion; Notes; 10. Body, nature, and art; Body and nature; Body: the nature that we are ourselves; The closed and the open body; Bodily being in the world; The body felt; Being a body -- a task for art?; Notes; 11. Nature as a subject; A comeback of nature; Nature: a problem of art; Nature: a problem for art; Notes; PART III: Architecture; 12. The atmosphere of a city; Odors; As matters stand; The concept of atmosphere; Generators of atmosphere; Conclusion; Notes; 13. Atmosphere as the subject matter of architecture
The difficulty of talking about architectureThe perception of architecture; Architecture and space; Conclusion: architecture or stage design?; Notes; 14. Staged materiality; Two bookshops; Material and materiality; The manifestation of materiality; The iconology of materials; Sensing material; Note; 15. Architecture: a visual art?: On the relationship between modern architecture and photography; A natural alliance?; Criticism; Space, the scenic, and photography; Notes; 16. Metaphors in architecture -- a metaphor?; Architecture as language; What are metaphors?; Metaphors in architecture
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Subject Aesthetics.
Nature (Aesthetics)
Architecture -- Aesthetics.
Light.
Sound (Philosophy)
Light
light (energy)
PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
Aesthetics
Architecture -- Aesthetics
Light
Nature (Aesthetics)
Sound (Philosophy)
Form Electronic book
Author Thibaud, Jean-Paul.
ISBN 1134967918
9781134967919