Meaning in Architecture and Landscape Architecture: Enhancement of Contemporary Design Practices Based on the Review of Postmodernism and Surrealism Aesthetic Philosophies

The study explored surrealist aesthetic philosophies in relation with referential postmodern architecture,and landscape architecture,to communicate meaning with the audience.These philosophies provide lessons about the potential of the built environment to address the emotional and psychological needs of the public,that is,to address the vital social,ecological,and functional needs of modern society.According to this,the purpose of the study was two-fold.The first is to analyze the visual techniques and forms that are used in referential postmodern architecture and landscape architecture in relation with surrealist aesthetic philosophies,to communicate meaning with the audience.Second is to demonstrate the relevance of these visual theories,to enhance contemporary design practices.The study emphasized the potential of art forms that provide meaning to address the physiological and spiritual needs of the society.Hence,it re-established landscape architecture as an art form capable of enriching human psychological and spiritual well-being,which is opposed to the conservative utilitarian natures of the field.

Postmodernism and Mass Media

Postmodernism is defined firstly on the analysis of both the divergence and correlation among the concepts of modernism,modernity and postmodernity.Mass media is chosen as a study case because postmodernism can find a complete reflection in it while the development of mass media will consolidate the postmodern thought.They're interweaving in many ways.

The Pathologies of Modernity:Liberalism,Nihilism,Conservatism,Postmodernism,Intersectionality/Identity Politics,and Secular Humanism

In this article,Mocombe highlights what he calls the pathological-pathogenic purposive-rationalities(liberalism,nihilism,conservatism,postmodernism,intersectionality/identity politics,and secular humanism)that emerge out of modernity as constituted by the West under American hegemony.In the place of these pathological-pathogenic responses to the vagaries of modernity,Mocombe calls for an antihumanism,associated with what he calls libertarian communism,as a panacea to the aforementioned malaises.

Between Early Literary Modernism and Contemporary Post-Postmodernism——Jan Kjrstad Rewrites Knut Hamsun’s Novel Hunger 100 Years Later

The article is a comparative study of Knut Hamsun’s novel Hunger (1890) and Jan Kjrstad’s novel The Brink (1990), focusing on similar motives, topics and references from the point of view of early modernism and post-postmodernism. It sheds light on aesthetic problems concerning how to deal with existential and metaphysical questions viewed against the background of changing historical and philosophical experiences and new ways of poetic expression. The article points out the resemblances and differences between the novels and shows how two of the front figures of modern Scandinavian literature meet the challenges of renewing the traditional forms of writing.

Capital and Aesthetics＂ How Could People＇s Freedom be Possible under Modem Conditions？

In the age where capital becomes the most dominant, the most manipulating power, the current aesthetics has to face and solve the problems such as ＂capital versus aesthetics＂, ＂matter nature versus mind nature＂, ＂society versus culture＂ and has to answer the follow-up question--＂How could people＇s freedom be possible in modem conditions？＂ The reflections and criticism on ＂capital modernity＂ by Marx, Weber and Simmel all directly pointed to the issues of people＇s value and the settlement of their spirit in the Age of Capital. Meanwhile, the salvation of the ＂aesthetic modernity＂ makes up the proper meaning of the solution in many thinkers＇ mind to the predicament of the age. In this sense, the reflections on the Zeitgeist in the Age of Capital is certainly included in the pursuit of aesthetic freedom in this age.

The Constructed Image:“China”in Gertrude Stein’s Composite Matrix of Aesthetics and Politics

As a representative modernist writer of the early 20th century,Gertrude Stein creatively established a unique experimental writing style to support her modernist expression.This paper attempts to analyze the Oriental elements,especially elements and images related to“China”in her works.Stein’s uses these elements to construct a systematic and complex matrix of aesthetics and politics.“China”in Stein’s matrix is an essential source of her so-called“the oriental peaceful penetration”and a significant lens for her ideological expression and political thoughts.Although Stein emphasizes her Oriental components in the source of identity,she always places herself in a Western position,ignoring cultural and political expressions in the real Chinese context and turning“China”into a useful tool in the collective fantasies of the West.

Modern Memoir and Esoteric Aesthetics: The Inauthentic Context of Zora Neale Hurston's"Ring of Thieves"

Cecily Swanson argues that“modernism's Gurdjieff craze in fact played a surprising role in the development of an overlooked canon of popular autobiographies:Muriel Draper's memoir,Music at Midnight;Margaret Anderson's memoir,My Thirty Years'War;and Kathryn Hulme's autobiographical novel,We Lived As Children.”Swanson reads Draper,Anderson,and Hulme because they wrote as esotericists,while she divorces the memoirs from any overt esoteric influences,contents,or aesthetics.There is no need to search further for the source of the mode of the popular autobiographies by Anderson and Draper than what of Loos's novel comes through the Peggy Hopkins Joyce/Zora Neale Hurston memoir.Marriage,Men,and Me appears near the commencement of a line of esoteric memoirs that becomes visible in the best-selling works by Draper and Anderson but then continues expansively.

近代Aesthetics一词的汉译历程

Aesthetics一词的汉译历程是在中、西、日文化互动间展开的。这一历程分为三阶段:第一阶段为一般语学词典中普通词汇;第二阶段为西方教育著译中的课程译名;第三阶段为美学著译中的核心术语。其中第三阶段又分"美妙学"、"审美学"、"美学"三节目。

Beautiful Thinking： Poetic Episteme in European Modernism

Poetic texts and poetological programs around 1900 claim a mode of thinking that exceeds the limits of rationality—beautiful thinking shallimply better thinking. In its most sophisticated utterances, poetry of Classical Modernism pretends to give better insights into the appearances and structures of the w orld than any other mode of know ledge.Moreover,it asserts a genuine aesthetic nomothesis. The paper sketches the tensions of claim and consequences with respect to some core positions of Classical Modernism( Hofmannsthal,Meyer-Graefe,Rilke).

“虚静之美”的传统审美在现代茶空间设计中的延续与发展

通过对“虚静之美”的特征进行分析,探讨其在中国传统审美文化中的融合与体现。再从“虚静”的特征分析入手,剖析“虚静之美”在空间环境、材质、意境等方面的设计特征,从而找出中国传统审美文化与茶空间设计的契合之处,统一内在的文化意境与外在的空间表现形式,提出蕴藏深厚文化的现代茶空间设计理念,进而研究如何将“虚静之美”的传统审美在现代茶空间设计中进行延续与发展,使得现代茶空间的设计既能符合当代社会的审美趋势,又能凸显中华民族传统文化的精神内涵和情感韵味。

中国式学校体育现代化中的“五育并举”

历经四个发展阶段,党的教育方针从德、智、体“三育全面发展”拓展成德、智、体、美、劳“五育并举”,这是中国教育在新时代面对人才培养的现实主题,是应对新征程中国教育的发展要求而进行的目标拓展和改革举措。研究发现,从中国式学校体育现代化的视角来看,“五育”中的体育是一个极具特殊性的教育和学科,它在功能上与德育、智育、美育及劳动教育有着深刻内在的结构性联系,因此它具有与其他“四育”可以深入融合共育的广泛可能性。鉴于推进“五育并举”过程中会遇到的结构性障碍与困难,分别提出了体育与其他“四育”并举并进的途径与方法,推进体育成为“五育并举”的主渠道、主战场和主力军。

“Mimēsis”的辩证法:阿多诺对“技术”的媒介美学批判

在阿多诺针对大众媒介技术展开的现代美学批判中,“Mimēsis”(摹仿)的辩证法是核心向度之一。在对本雅明关于技术复制与现代艺术命运关系之思考的容受中,通过指认技术复制是“摹仿的绝对化”而真正艺术是“摹仿行为的庇护所”,阿多诺揭示了“摹仿”在技术时代的美学中仍然能够作为一个批判概念得以存留的可能性和必要性。其根本原因在于:作为摹仿绝对化的技术复制无论其表面上多么繁荣多样,其实质只是“重复”;但如果媒介技术的“复制”功能成为技术时代艺术的重要摹仿对象,在生产差异之“重复”的“摹仿辩证法”中,复制的技术便可以被艺术的摹仿技艺所吸收转化,从而实现技术的美学“救赎”。

湘西苗族服饰美学与现代箱包设计融合研究

为了展现湘西苗族人民的物质文化和精神文化,本文以湘西地区苗族服饰为研究对象,探究其在现代设计中的应用路径。结合湘西苗族的文化渊源,梳理湘西苗族服饰的美学特征,并说明了湘西苗族服饰元素在现代箱包设计中的应用价值和应用思维。同时,利用案例分析法,从湘西苗族服饰图案元素、服饰色彩运用和服饰工艺手法3个方面,讲述苗族服饰美学与现代箱包设计融合的实际应用。

2023美学:中国式现代化进程中的美学实践

2023年,中国美学在守正与创新中奋力书写崭新篇章。在党的二十大精神引领下,中国美学界从中国式现代化视角重新审视美学的历史脉络,推动美学的话语更新,以美学的价值引导功能,铸就中国式现代化在物质与精神层面的互动共生。与此同时,学界聚焦于中国古典美学范畴、美学与政治的关系以及美学流派等方面,以“内部研究”与“外部研究”的系统整合勾勒中国美学的整体图景。中西美学的交流互鉴,推动了美学基础理论的创新,打破了西方美学研究范式的主导地位,彰显出中国美学的世界意义。在学科交叉与视域融合中,当代美学从理论对话、实践指向与现实旨归三重维度呈现出发展新趋势。

传统文化符号对现代包装设计审美的影响探究

在经济全球化的背景下,包装设计不仅是商品信息的载体,更是文化传承和创新的重要途径。传统文化符号作为民族文化的精髓,应用在现代包装设计中,不仅能提升商品的美学价值,还能增强消费者的文化认同感。然而如何将传统文化符号与现代包装设计审美有机结合,实现传统与现代的和谐统一,是一个值得深入探讨的课题。本文从传统文化符号的定义与特点出发,分析传统文化符号在现代包装设计中的应用路径,提出传统文化符号在现代包装设计中的创新应用方式,以期提升现代包装的设计审美。

在现代性困惑中发现东方--劳伦斯·宾雍与道家美学

启蒙运动以来,随着科学主义的兴盛和宗教信仰的式微,现代性问题的不断激化加剧了欧洲对自身社会结构和文化结构的不满。西方学者在反思和批判现代性的过程中,不仅试图从资本主义社会内部寻求化解现代性矛盾的方法,同时也转向东方探寻一种新的思维方式,以此来“疗愈”文化和心理上的焦虑。中国道家美学精神的价值在反思现代性的时代议题下被重新发掘出来。英国诗人、艺术批评家和汉学家劳伦斯·宾雍以中国艺术为载体对道家美学精神的阐扬,不仅加快了欧洲重估中国艺术和美学价值的历史进程,同时对西方物我失衡的宇宙观和科学原则至上的时代艺术观进行反拨和纠偏,促成了欧洲现代主义对中国艺术美学的吸收和借鉴。

自然美理论重建的知识学考察

生态世界观的兴起是自然美理论重建的知识前设,并从“主体融入”“自然复魅”与“实践共同体”三个方面确立了自身的哲学观念。在生态世界观的知识预设下,赫伯恩建构的“环境美学”和阿多诺对自然美“非同一性”的生态正义伦理得以明确,彰显了自然美理论重建的两种思路。自然美理论的重建是在时代条件、理论背景与学科趋势等深厚的知识论语境中进行。主体环境保护意识的深化与生态伦理观念激发了自然美的实践价值;后现代存在哲学与本真自然的呈现凸显了自然美的理论积淀;美学史内在话语的自然生态转向体现出理论的纠偏与丰富。对自然美的重新关注是当代美学重构的一个契机。

徽州古民居生态美学特征的现代建筑设计应用探索

徽派古民居在中国传统建筑中占有重要地位,在其成型过程中受到徽州地理和文化影响,展现出独特的区域特色,在其造型、功能、装饰等诸多方面也自成一格,呈现出“天人合一”的协调美、“道法自然”的和谐美以及“古朴典雅”的整体美的生态美学特征。现代建筑设计可遵循特色地域文化与传统建造技术相融合、传统建筑文化与社会经济环境相适应、建筑空间形式与功能适用性相统一的原则,探索因地制宜,构建以“和”为美的地形界面;秩序井然,构建以“序”为美的空间界面;情景合一,构建以“情”为美的人文界面,做到古为今用的同时,彰显徽州古民居生态美学的科学构成、地域特色和价值理念。

“现代人”思想·长篇小说诗学·美学和历史视野——撰写中国现代长篇小说史(1922—1949年)的几点思考

撰写中国现代长篇小说史最基本也是最重要的一个思路是:以“现代人”思想为根,以长篇小说诗学为本,在美学和历史的视野下,通过对前二者融创度与完成度的探析与相关艺术问题的剖析、阐释,实现对中国现代长篇小说发展历程共时性与历时性的描述与定位,即在主潮中透视,在诗学中辨析,在审美中感悟,在时代中把握,进而清晰地勾勒出中国现代长篇小说的发展脉络、艺术得失。通过对现代长篇小说诗学艺术的深入揭示,对其中出现的一些重要的现象与问题加以理论的探讨与提升,深化中国现代长篇小说研究的问题意识,构建并拓宽中国现代长篇小说的审美认知谱系,是撰写中国现代长篇小说史的一个有效范式。

系统观与方法论:网络文艺评论的审美指向和思维展开

在互联网时代新的媒介生态、艺术生态和产业生态中,网络文艺创作生产风生水起、如火如荼。与此相应,网络文艺评论蓬勃发展。伴随数字文化的范式转换,网络文艺评论需在系统性的审美观照中,突出强化“传统”与“现代”的历时性比较、“中国”与“西方”的共时性参照、“加强”与“修正”的反身性透视。这三个维度的审美指向和思维展开是网络文艺新实践在文艺评论上的客观反映,也是网络文艺评论发挥积极作用、促进创作生产繁荣发展的必然要求。