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ARCHIVE

This is an archive of all past volumes of Contemporary Aesthetics, both annual volumes and special volumes. To access the current volume, visit www.contempaesthetics.org. All past volumes are directly accessible from that site as well.

The Journal

In recent years aesthetics has grown into a rich and varied discipline. Its scope has widened to embrace ethical, social, religious, environmental, and cultural concerns. As international communication increases through more frequent congresses and electronic communication, varied traditions have joined with its historically interdisciplinary character, making aesthetics a focal center of diverse and multiple interests. These need a forum that is universal and inclusive, easy to access, and unhampered by financial, political, and institutional barriers. An on-line publication offers an ideal opportunity for advancing these purposes and Contemporary Aesthetics hopes to provide that forum.

Archive: Volume 23 (2025)

The Soil You See…, (2023). Wendy Red Star, glass, granite 92 x 38 x 36 in. Courtesy of the artist and Sargent’s Daughters. Photo by Steve Weinik. Commissioned by Monument Lab; in the permanent collection of the Tippet Rise ArtCenter (Fishtail, MT). Installed in Washington, DC, near the Declaration of Independence Memorial. The latter includes the signatures of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence. In contrast, Red Star’s memorial comprises the names in the form of a monumental thumbprint of 50 Apsáalooke tribal representatives who brokered treaties with the US government between 1825 and 1880. These Indigenous leaders ratified thetreaties with an X or a thumbprint. Red Star – herself Apsáalooke – evokes settler land appropriation and broken treaties in the heart of the nation’s capital.

Editorial

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Editorial
Yuriko Saito

Notices

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Notices
Editorial Office

Recent Publications

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Recent Publications
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Short Notes

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A Note on the Weather
Arnold Berleant

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On Incomprehensibility
Nicholas Romanos

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Art, Trauma, And the Aesthetics of Paul Celan
Tania L. Abramson and Paul R. Abramson

Articles

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Time and Atmosphere
Mǎdǎlina Diaconu