On was an interdisciplinary graduate periodical established by RISD graduate students in 2006. It featured essays and student work that related to a general issue theme. On was intended as a quarterly publication, but it is unclear if further issues beyond the first were ever published.
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XXI Miedzynarodowy Festiwal Sztuki lal karskiej (International Festival of Puppetry Art)
Fleet Library, Visual + Material Resources, and Josef Wilkon
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Reclaiming the Body: Francis Bacon's Fugitive Bodies and Confucian Aesthetics on Bodily Expression
Eva K. W. Man
Recently there has been a cry in Western academic and artistic circles for reclaiming the body and repositioning its locus and identity. Body theories and body art have become topics of attention as well as subjects of philosophical discussion. This article looks at the issue from a comparative perspective, focusing on representative cases in Chinese and Western portrait paintings. It first discusses Francis Bacon's works of human bodies and identifies their philosophical and psychological loci. It then outlines the Confucian discourses on the body, their related metaphysical grounds, and their relations to traditional Chinese portrait paintings. Representative Chinese portraits like those of Ku K'ai-chih are introduced. In comparing these, the following questions are addressed: How are body discourses related to different bodily expressions? In what ways do the Confucian ideas on the body shed light on recent discussions in the West on reclaiming the body? Are the problems with the dichotomies of mind and body solved in the Confucian tradition? Can active engagement through the process of reworking artworks create new possibilities of bodily expression?
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How To Speak of Nature? The Exemplary Position of Mount Koli in Environmental Research
Yrjö Sepänmaa
Mount Koli in Eastern Finland is a useful example for environmental aesthetics and landscape research. In case studies, an example represents a general set and the conclusion becomes a precedent. Koli provides a wealth of material: descriptions of local nature, art featuring Koli, and documents concerning the environmental debates around it. One can outline both the development of Koli into a culturally significant location and the activities and policies of the process, as well as the values and appreciations that guided them. The material we have can be used to examine an environmental institution designed to have the structure of an artistic one. In both, a chain is present connecting an author via interpreters to a person who experiences. This cognitive model needs to be clarified by using practical situations as examples. Again, the question is one of preparing for the future as well as researching past events and the practices involved.
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Wrongly Bodied Two
Clarissa Sligh, Women's Studio Workshop, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
112 pages : illustrations, portraits. "Wrongly bodied two" relates the stories of Jake, a contemporary white male imprisoned in a woman's body as he transitions from female to male and Ellen Craft, a 19th century black woman who escapes slavery by passing as a white man. While photographing Jake's transition, Sligh becomes conscious of society's psychological response to the transgressive act of changing one's identity. Recalling Ellen Craft's journey to freedom, Sligh re-examines her own fears of crossing the forbidden boundaries of gender, race and class."--artist's webpage. "Produced during an artist residency at the Women's Studio Workshop .. The book was printed with silkscreen and inkjet pigment ink on Rives Heavyweight. The type fonts are Clarendon, Bodoni, Gill Sans Gold, Futura, and Bookman Old Style. This is number .. of 46"--Colophon. Grey cloth cover binding with decorated pattern in green. Case binding, handsewn signatures, binding. Library has copy 36 of an edition of 46.
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Talk To the Animals: A Short Comment on Wolfgang Welsch's "Animal Aesthetics"
Stefán Snaevarr
I voice some concern about Wolfgang Welsch's defense of the theory that animals can feel aesthetic pleasure. My first concern is epistemological: it is hard to see how we can find out whether they actually feel such pleasures. My second concern is conceptual: aesthetic pleasures have intentional objects and are woven into fallible judgments. It is hard to see that animals have such objects and can perform such judgments.
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Attitude Componenets Flag 6 (description), Trend Fall / Winter 2004/05
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Attitude Componenets Flag 6, Trend Fall / Winter 2004/06
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Attitude Components Flag 8, Trend Fall / Winter 2004/05
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Austerity Components Flag 13 (description), Trend Fall / Winter 2004/05
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Austerity Components Flag 13 (detail), Trend Fall / Winter 2004/05
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Austerity Components Flag 13, Trend Fall / Winter 2004/05
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Crystal Fashion Components Trends Fall / Winter 2004/05
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Optimist Components Flag 10, Trend Fall / Winter 2004/05
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