Yearbook of the International Association for Aesthetics (IAA)
Volume 19, 2017

"Retracing the past. Historical continuity in aesthetics from a global perspective"
Edited by Zoltán Somhegyi


CONTENTS

Introduction 7
Zoltán Somhegyi

The paradox of mimesis. In connection with Aristotle
Béla Bacsó
9

Reflections on the subject of Antiquity and the future
Raffaele Milani
23

Contemplation or manipulation? Aesthetic perspectives on nature and animals from Shaftesbury to bio-art
Karl Axelsson & Camilla Flodin
29

The Painter in the landscape. Aesthetic considerations on a pictorial sub-genre
Zoltán Somhegyi
42

Jan Gwalbert Pawlikowski. A forerunner of landscape aesthetics
Mateusz Salwa
54

Mis-construction: Changes in the arts and aesthetics East and West
Curtis Carter
66

The woman-and-tree motif in the ancient and contemporary India
Marzenna Jakubczak
79

Semiology and/or anthropology of Western painting
Miško Šuvaković
94

A great future behind us. Exploded traditions, avant-garde pasts
Tyrus Miller
107

Successiveness and simultaneity in 20th century aesthetics. Two models of "post-historical" art
Rodrigo Duarte
118

Robert Motherwell and John Constable. Intra-subjectivity and time as determinants of serial painting in American Abstract Expressionism and British Romanticist landscape painting
Manfred Milz
131

The Body of Evidence? From Danto to Kant and back
Zoltán Papp
150

Making history through anachronic imagining. Notes on art history and temporal complexities of the present
Jacob Lund
165

Aesthetics in cyberspace. Contemporary mass culture and Korean Pop
Jiun Lee-Whitaker
177

Rock me Amadeus. A lowbrow reading of high culture – or how to deal with high cultured appropriation?
Max Ryynänen
186

The renewal of the past towards the future. The case of Jean Nouvel's architecture
Jale Erzen
197

Katsuhiro Miyamoto's The Fukushima No. 1. Nuclear Power Plant Shrine "Acting-out" and "working-through"
Yoshiko Suzuki
211

Tokyo, the versatile city. Glimpses between postmodernity and tradition
Federico Farnè
234

Contributors
247


The book is downloadable from the website of the IAA:
http://www.iaaesthetics.org/item/191-volume-19-zoltan-somhegyi-ed-retracing-the-past-historical-continuity-in-aesthetics-from-a-global-perspective.

As well as proceeding books in the “Publication/Proceedings” section:
http://www.iaaesthetics.org/publications/proceedings