Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Animal Aesthetic'

Évoquer ou convoquer l’animal en art met en perspective et accroît l’œuvre humaine jusque dans les excès et les incohérences qu’elle peut manifester, mais rend également possible un accès à ce qui est extérieur au domaine humain. Les artistes s’inspirent de la symbolique à laquelle donne corps l’animal, de sa morphologie aussi bien que des modes d’expressions qu’il invente et déploie. Il leur arrive même de se laisser tenter par le mimétisme. Les créateurs et les poètes ne disposent-ils pas d’autres outils que les penseurs ou les scientifiques pour atteindre cette étrangeté qui semble pourtant souvent si familière ? Qu’il s’agisse d’œuvres plastiques, de performances, de créations musicales ou scéniques, y convier l’animal offre une matrice infinie de figurations et de reconfigurations. L’expression de ce répertoire corporel et comportemental s’articule comme un véritable langage structuré. Au-delà d'une transposition qui permet de donner à entrevoir l’humanité de l'homme, les artistes peuvent aussi tenter la percée vers la réalité d’autres êtres vivants. Entre confrontation, dialogue et transfert, les pratiques artistiques reflètent la diversité, le polymorphisme même du rapport humain aux animaux, et l’histoire d’une attitude foncièrement ambivalente, prise entre empathie et exploitation. L’expérience de l’animal, voire l’expérience animale, donne lieu à un partage de territoire(s) et de conscience(s), ouvrant sur le dévoilement d’un penser en images
To evoke or to summon the animal in art puts in perspective the work of mankind, increases its excesses and its inconsistencies as well as it makes possible to open up the door to what is outside the human reach. Artists inspire themselves from the symbolic to which the animal is giving flesh, its morphology up to the ways of communication it creates and deploys. Artists may even be tempted by mimicry. Don’t creators and poets dispose of no other means than this one to address that strangeness that seems however so familiar to them ?To invite the animal in art work, could it be plastic arts, performances, musicals works or on stage, is to offer an infinite matrix for figuring or reconfiguring. The expression of its physical and behavioral repertory is articulated as a structured language. Beyond a transposition that allows a glimpse at human kind’s humanity, artists can also try to break through the reality of other living beings. Half way through confrontation, dialogue and transference, artistic practices mirror the diversity of human relationships with animals and even its polymorphism, as well as they reflect on the history of a human attitude fundamentally ambivalent, torn between empathy and exploitation. The animal experience, the animalistic experiment even, gives rise to a territory and consciousness sharing, opening up to the unveiling of a thinking through images

This research provides artistic interventions into the question of institutionalised violence against animals. With a relational and holistic vision in mind, this artistic enquiry explores the intersections between ethics and aesthetics, humans and animals, human and animal injustices. It is dualistic and anthropocentric thinking that underlies both human and animal oppression. A Derridean approach invites us to think about the shared vulnerability among all beings through the presence of the animal other, calling our infinite responsibility towards the animal and dismantling entwined dualisms. With regard and respect, we are encouraged to appreciate the animal as a singular, specific, valuable being, rather than a predetermined, dualistic category. Formally and conceptually informed by contemporary art addressing both human and animal oppression, this enquiry critically reflects on the invisibility of violence towards animals which contributes collective ignorance and indifference to animal suffering. Translating the testimony of animal’s plight into poetic representation, I propose three pieces of large-scale, mixed-media installation works, combining aesthetic elements such as paintings, feathers, fabrics, lights, spaces, and audience experiences to confront the viewer with this question. In so doing, I believe that the poetics of art has the potential of transforming public consciousness of thinking about animals in non-binary and non-instrumental terms.

The use of anthropomorphic animal characters is pervasive in animation, but there has been little examination of how and why these are created, and how a viewing audience understands them. This Practice-based PhD examines how a re-defining of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic representation might bring a new impetus to the use of animal imagery within contemporary animation practice. An initial stage of research was to define the term anthropomorphism both as a visual language within animation practice and in the wider contexts of scientific and philosophical discourse. Social and psychological aspects are discussed, recognising this form of hybrid representation throughout the development of human culture. Links with Human Animal Studies disciplines raised the question of relating anthropomorphism to negative aspects of anthropocentrism and this led to a second stage of the research that explores ways of working with anthropomorphism that do not promote an anthropocentric bias. This is firstly achieved through the devising of a new theoretical approach to character analysis that is based on the recognition of perceptual aesthetic and sensual animal qualities in human-led , animal-led and design-led anthropomorphic characters, rather than a reliance on conceptual symbolic referencing of human experiences, goals, and narratives. Moving into the practice and influence from historical animation work provides impetus for a move away from character and narrative based work. Experimental animation techniques are used to create rhythms and patterns of abstracted animal and human imagery. This new work is based on contemporary ecological ideas that discuss relationships between humans and animals as interconnected species, thus providing a second way of lessening of anthropocentric bias in the subject matter. Having a starting point of aesthetic and sensual responses to actual experiences with animals is an important factor and live action film is re-animated to create digitally manipulated rhythms of colour, texture, movement and sound. The practical research outcomes are animation samples that evidence the coming together of experimental digital techniques and contemporary ecological subject matter. An action research model was devised for the research to enable the integration of theory and practice, and reflection on theory and practice to have an important influence on the practical outcomes. The approach taken was dependent on experience as a creative practitioner and as a teacher helping others to develop a sustainable creative practice, in allowing an open and intuitive discovery of ideas from both theoretical and practical explorations to create a flow through the research. The combination of theoretical and practical research undertaken provides an impetus towards the creation of future animation work using an anthropomorphic visual language redefined as zooanthropomorphic animation . The submission includes outcomes of a written thesis and links to practical animation work.

This thesis provides new ways of thinking about human-bird encounters under domestication, providing the first substantive geographical study of ‘pigeon geographies’. It explores the spaces, practices, and human-pigeon relationships involved in pigeon showing and long-distance pigeon racing in Britain, from the mid-nineteenth century up until World War Two. The growth of fancy pigeon exhibitions was part of a wider Victorian passion for domesticating animals, at a time when human bodies were also subject to increasing aesthetic and moral scrutiny. Long-distance pigeon racing emerged at the end of this period, organised competitive sport more generally seen as an important means of moral improvement and identity expression. Like many other competitive pastimes in the second half of the nineteenth century, then, institutional bodies were formed to manage the expansion of showing and long-distance racing. The Pigeon Club and the Marking Conference were formed in 1885 to oversee British pigeon exhibitions, whilst the National Homing Union, formed in 1896, governed British long-distance pigeon racing. Both pastimes facilitated the formation of social worlds around varieties of domestic pigeon (Columba livia) and their respective practices. Whilst these pastimes historically had strong concentrations of male working-class followers – particularly in the north-west and north-east – they were both widespread throughout Britain and spanned all socio-economic classes, although accounts of female fanciers were rare. Through the exhibition of pigeons, fanciers debated and defined aesthetics, formulating breeding standards for each fancy breed, and questioning the ways in which pigeons were manipulated – sometimes contentiously – to produce the ‘ideal’. Long-distance pigeon racers, on the other hand, sought to understand and hone their birds’ athletic abilities, becoming entangled in scientific debate about homing, as well as geographical questions about the conduct and regulation of their sport. Racers were also drawn into aesthetic debates, exhibiting their racing birds during the off-season, the show pen becoming a fascinating frontier between showing and racing. Through the organisation of the spaces and practices that made up the fabric of these pastimes, pigeon showing and long-distance racing reconfigured both humans and their birds, the two becoming closely intertwined through collaborative encounters.

Taxidermy specimens and displays have become increasingly liminal features in contemporary society. Viewed variously as historical curios, obsolete relics or more malignantly as ‘monstrosities’, they can be a source of discomfort for many. Taxidermy objects have become uncomfortable reminders of past scientific and colonial practices which have sought to capture, order and control animated life and as such have become increasingly problematic items for their owners. As a result many taxidermy displays have been dismantled and mounts relegated to ‘backstores’ to gather dust. The paradox is that taxidermy as a practice is a quest for ‘liveness’, to impute life back into the dead. Much like the taxidermist, my goal in this thesis is to revive and restore: to renew interest in and reassert the value of taxidermy collections by recovering what I shall term as the ‘biogeographies’ of their making and continued maintenance. Considerable academic attention has been paid to the ‘finished’ form and display of taxidermy specimens inside cabinets, behind glass – in other words, to their representation. By way of contrast, this thesis recovers the relationships, practices and geographies that brought specimens to their state of enclosure, inertness and seeming fixity. These efforts are aligned with work in cultural geography seeking to counteract ‘deadening effects’ in an active world through a prioritisation of practice (Dewsbury and Thrift 2000), and elsewhere draw on research arguments and approaches originating in historical geography, and the history of science. The thesis firstly investigates historical developments in the scientific and craft practice of taxidermy through the close study of period manuals, combined with ethnographic observations of a practicing taxidermist. Critical attention to practice then facilitates the recovery of the lifeworlds of past taxidermy workshops and the globally sited biogeographies behind the making of individual specimens and collections. The thesis required the purposeful assemblage and rehabilitation of diffuse zoological and historical remains to form unconventional archives, enabling a series of critical reflections on the scientific, creative and political potentials of taxidermy.

Este trabalho analisou questões de Ética Animal nos quadrinhos de Turma da Mônica Jovem e Chico Bento Moço, revistas em estilo mangás retratando personagens de Mauricio de Sousa como adolescentes. Para isso, foi realizado um panorama sobre a relação entre Estética, Ética e cultura popular, com destaque para estudos de Jean-Marie Guyau e foi verificado o histórico do pensamento ético sobre os animais na História do Mundo, desembocando em Tom Regan, Gary Francione, Sônia Felipe e Carlos Naconecy. Também se realizou um histórico da representação dos animais na História das Artes Visuais, com destaque para Franz Marc; e o mesmo com os quadrinhos infantis de Mauricio de Sousa, com destaque para o porco Chovinista; uma história em que Chico Bento tentava degolar um peru, mas se arrependeu; o tiranossauro vegetariano Horácio; e as tentativas do personagem mudo Humberto de libertar um canário e um peixe-dourado do negro Jeremias. Entre os autores estudados para as análises, destacam-se Umberto Eco, pela metodologia de interpretação de texto; Antonio Candido, pelos estudos do personagem de ficção; e Mikhail Bakhtin, pela estética do Grotesco. Nas revistas em estilo mangá de Mauricio de Sousa, foram analisados o seu discurso extra-ficcional e princípios gerais enunciados pelos protagonistas sobre os animais; a relação entre humanos e animais selvagens perigosos, silvestres inofensivos e animais de estimação. Verificou-se elevada valorização do critério ambiental, exceto quando está em jogo o consumo de animais. Os casos anteriores foram comparados com a representação do tratamento dos animais mortos e explorados na indústria alimentícia: porcos, vacas, galinhas, peixes e abelhas. Verificou-se que discursos dos protagonistas e o extra-ficcional do autor de amor, paz e proteção generalizados pelos animais são frequentemente incoerentes com atitudes observadas nos personagens e em relação às mensagens identificadas nas histórias, com destaque para a pesca recreativa de Chico Bento. Foi verificado o fenômeno do \"afetismo letal ou coisificador\", termo cunhado nesta pesquisa para designar que, diferentemente do que ocorre na realidade, há certos animais tratados pelo mesmo protagonista com afeto e outros da mesma espécie mortos ou escravizados por seus hábitos de consumo ou atitudes diretas. Cenários idílicos no campo comunicam mensagens enganosas em relação ao que ocorre via de regra no meio rural com os animais; assim como não se valorizou e informou adequadamente sobre os alimentos mais saudáveis na dieta vegetariana. Personagens vegetarianas foram identificadas e análises sobre sua representação e associações decorrentes foram deduzidas. Elas são novidade nestes quadrinhos, porém são exclusivamente mulheres e bruxas com poderes sobrenaturais, com particular e coincidente exposição de seus corpos. Positivamente quanto aos direitos animais, destaca-se história em que a protagonista Mônica e a vegetariana Denise resgatam porcos lembrando uma ação direta de ativismo da Frente de Libertação Animal (ALF); e outra em que Mônica demonstrou aversão ao trabalho na pecuária, apesar de não ser vegetariana. Magali, a personagem de Mauricio de Sousa tradicionalmente mais associada à alimentação, demonstrou forte tendência ao vegetarianismo, além de ocorrerem muitos episódios em que expressou sua compaixão pelos animais e sensibilidade.
This work analyzed issues on Animal Ethics in the comics Turma da Mônica Jovem and Chico Bento Moço, publications in manga style picturing characters by Mauricio de Sousa as teenagers. First, we made a panorama about the relationship among Aesthetics, Ethics, and popular culture, with highlights to studies by Jean-Marie Guyau; we traced the ethical thinking on animals in the World History, arriving to Tom Regan, Gary Francione, Sônia Felipe and Carlos Naconecy. We researched the representation of animals in the History of Visual Arts, with highlights to Franz Marc. The same with the childish comics of Mauricio de Sousa, emphasizing the pig Chovinista; a story where Chico Bento tried to behead a turkey, but regretted it; the vegetarian Tyrannossaurus Horácio; and attempts of the mute Humberto of releasing a canary and a golden-fish from the black Jeremias. Among the characters studied for the analysis, there are: Umberto Eco, for the methodology of text interpretation; Antonio Candido, for studies on the character of fiction; and Mikhail Bakhtin, for the aesthetic of the Grotesc. In manga comics of Mauricio de Sousa, we analyzed his extra-fictional discourse and general principles enunciated by the main characters about the animals; the relationship between humans and savage dangerous animals, innofensive wild animals and pets. We noticed how high valued was the environmental criterium, except when the consumption of animals is at stake. The former cases were compared to the representation of the animals killed and exploited in the food industry: pigs, cows, chickens, fish and bees. We noticed that discourses of the characters and the extra-fictional discourse of generalized love, peace and protection for animals are often incoherent with attitudes observed in the characters and in relation to the messages identified in the stories, mainly noticing the recreative fishing by Chico Bento. We verified the phenomenum of \"letal or slavering affectism\", concept created in this research to designate that, differently from reality, there are certain animals treated by the same character with affection and others of the same species killed or slavered by his or her habits of consumption or direct attitudes. Idyllic scenaries in the rural area communicate deceiving messages in relation to what happens usually in the rural zone with animals; also, the healthiest vegetarian food were not valued and adequately informed. Vegetarian characters, novelties in these comics, are exclusively women and witches with supernatural powers, and with coincidental exhibition of their bodies. Positively for animal rights, there\'s importance in a story where the character Mônica and the vegetarian Denise rescue pigs, which remind us a direct action of activism by Animal Liberation Front (ALF); and other story where Mônica revealed aversion to working with cattle exploitation, although shes not vegetarian. Magali, the Mauricio de Sousa\'s character traditionally most associated to food, expressed a strong tendency to vegetarianism, and we can see also many episodes in which she showed compassion to animals and sensitivity.

This thesis examines nonhuman phenomenological experiences, communication, and sensory perception in Barbara Gowdy’s The White Bone. Drawing on literary and pedagogical theories by Roman Bartosch, Monika Fludernik, Marco Caracciolo, David Herman, and Judith Langer, the thesis argues that Gowdy’s novel employs narrative strategies and devices that involve nonhuman experientiality evoked from sensorial configurations, narration, and textual cognitive and embodied experiences. These represented experiences disrupt human primacy by establishing a disorientation that challenges the anthropocentric bias in the novel and decenters the human reader. Moreover, the thesis offers suggestions for using the novel in conjunction with envisionment building to discuss animal alterity and anthropocentrism in the Swedish EFL classroom.

In the past centuries and before the invention of automobile, roads consisted mainly of unpaved paths connecting only few cities. Later, in the beginning of the twentieth century, the automobile was introduced and a new type of the transportation system was born. Therefore, it was necessary to change the condition of roads to fit with the automobiles. With the spread and the development of the automobiles, roads also have developed and increased all over the world. That caused negative effects on the environment and humans’ life quality. Thus, highways associations and communities had to take some steps to reduce these effects and care about environmental and cultural issues with the traditional commitment to safety and mobility, and that is known as context sensitive design. The aim of this thesis is to use the concepts of context sensitive design to reduce the negative environmental impacts of provincial road Galliera, which connects via Colombo in city of Bologna to provincial road 3 in Argelato city. Some solutions were proposed in this thesis to reduce traffic noise, fragmentation, fauna mortality and to improve the aesthetics of the road.

Phenomenology systematically clarifies the structures and processes that make possible different experiences of communication based on pre linguistic foundation. This article explores this perspective and argues that it allows a deeper comprehension of experiences of personal and social reintegration through the interaction with animals of inmates and children with autism. Also, this article follows the thesis of David Abram: that the re discovery of the amplitude od the communicational possibilities in the human beings opens up alternatives of solution to the cultural discomforts that are growing deep in contemporary urban cultures of the world.
La fenomenología aclara sistemáticamente las estructuras y procesos que hacen posible las diversas experiencias comunicativas desde sus estratos fundamentales prelingüísticos. El artículo argumenta que esta perspectiva permite una comprensión más profunda de las experiencias de reintegración personal y social de reclusos y niños autistas a partir de la interacción con animales. Sostiene, siguiendo las tesis de David Abram, que el redescubrimiento de la amplitud de las posibilidades comunicativas en los seres humanos abre alternativas de respuesta a los malestares culturales que se van profundizando en las culturas urbanas contemporáneas.

El animal ha estado presente en el laboratorio a partir del siglo xx. Ya sea en la investigación científica, en el debate político o en la exploración artística, el animal ha carecido de refugio, es la víctima propiciatoria de todos los sacrificios contemporáneos.

Sin la función exploratoria que las vanguardias adjudicaron al arte poco o nada habría que documentar de tales operaciones. La figuración plástica, por otro lado, ha afianzado su proximidad en los diseños derivados del industrialismo tardío. El pop como escuela última del siglo pasado ha visto explotar las hibridaciones entre imagen pictórica y mediática. El siglo xx fue el siglo del triunfo de la imagen visual. La profusión de imágenes ha saturado la visión y sustituido al mundo por su representación.

La gráfica en el arte de finales de siglo cobraría una inusitada preponderancia por sobre las expresiones pictóricas. El arte conceptual y los minimalismos ejercieron una fuerte influencia sobre los estilos emergentes atrajeron una mayor atención hacia aspectos estructurales y sistemáticos de la práctica del arte. Hacia principios del siglo XXI el estatuto contemporáneo del dibujo es de primera relevancia respecto a otros recursos.

Poco queda ya de las identidades clásicas, nada, a decir verdad, de los géneros pictóricos donde las presencias animales hallaban clara pertinencia. El código genético es el trazo definitorio de las identidades en el siglo XXI. Ni la naturaleza muerta, ni el paisaje, ni el retrato con animales subsisten más que como formas paródicas. Los individuos del finales del siglo perdían toda relación de permanencia y trascendencia. En ese proceso fueron desfigurándose y desmaterializándose como la misma sustancia de la obra artística. Devenido discurso el arte tendría que volverse por un lado autorreferencial y por el otro una aplicación comunicativa.

No hallamos más a la naturaleza en nuestro entorno. El arte del siglo XX fue urbano, artificial, abstracto, sintético, teórico y, finalmente, sarcástico. La imagen de la naturaleza pasó a ser un tópico romántico trascendido y obsoleto; un lamento nostálgico. La sobre explotación de los recursos naturales aunada a la depauperación de las regiones rurales del planeta, particularmente en regiones extensas del tercer mundo, ha generado una actitud catastrofista hacia el programa desarrollista de occidente y se plantean más dudas que certezas frente al destino de múltiples especies animales y vegetales. El imaginario tradicionalmente prolífico y virtuoso de la naturaleza como abundancia inabarcable y como fuente de secretos y maravillas se ha trocado en una visión apocalíptica de fin de la vida.

La creciente preocupación en torno a la degradación acelerada de la naturaleza ha conducido a una conciencia política y civil de la ecología como postura ética y cultural de vanguardia. En correspondencia con el ecologismo desde el arte se ha hecho presente una actitud de reinterpretación de lo natural, ya no por medio de la imitación figurativa, sino como correlato cultural elíptico.


Por ello, la presencia de los animales en el arte de las últimas décadas del siglo XX plantea paradojas interesantes. No son el tema central de tal práctica, a decir verdad ningún tema lo fue; son agentes de extrañeza y de descentramiento. Son un sujeto aparentemente banal, periclitado en la historia, pero abandonado al margen de mitologías y utopías ancestrales. Los grandes imaginarios zoológicos de claras connotaciones al culto han perdido pertinencia en un mundo tecnificado y mediatizado. Por otro lado ese espacio salvaje del mundo animal, como instinto y naturaleza pura, ha sido neutralizado por la práctica psicoanalítica. Es propio de la civilización actual no hallar otros referentes que los antropocéntricos. El estatuto animal ha sido degradado a la domesticación e incorporado a la cadena productiva. Lo animal es excesivo y excedente: un suplemento irracional sin lógica en el diseño de la civilización futura.

La calidad espiritual del arte contemporáneo es débil, porque la sociedad que lo produce tiene un alma confundida. Las formas animales, tradicionalmente arquetipos de valor y conocimiento, nos son tanto más extrañas cuanto más manipulables y desintegradas nos parecen. Buscar un lugar para su manifestación en el arte necesariamente demanda una reconsideración de los procesos culturales de interpretación del mundo como un espacio donde aún tenga cabida la dimensión espiritual.
"Goldfish's Memory: Animals' Display and Representation in the Late 20th Century Western Drawings. (1970 - 2000)"

The traditionally prolific and virtuous imaginary of nature, as an endless abundance and source of all secrets and wonders, has changed into an apocalyptic vision of the end of life, as we know it.

The increasing concern about the fast degradation of nature has led to a civil and political conscience around ecology, as an avant-garde ethical and cultural posture. From the point of view of the ecology, seen through the lens of the Arts, there has been an attitude towards the re-interpretation of the natural, not by means of the figurative imitation, but as a cultural elliptic co-narrative.

This is the reason why, the presence of animals in the art production of the last decades of the 20th Century poses some interesting paradoxes. Animals are not the central theme of this practice; actually, they never were: they are agents of estrangement and decentralization. They are an apparently banal subject, glorified in history, but put aside along with mythologies and ancestral utopias. The great imaginary from zoology, clearly bonded to cult and ceremonial practices, has lost its pertinence in a technophile and media-influenced world. On the other hand, the "savage" space of the animal realm, as pure and natural instinct, has been neutralized by a psychoanalytic practice. It is proper to the current civilization to find no other references that those anthropocentric. The animal statutory has been subdued to domestication and incorporated to the dynamics of the production line. The animal is excessive and a left over: it is an irrational supplement without logic in the design of the future civilization.

The spiritual sphere of contemporary art is weak because the society that produces it bears a confused soul. Animals' form, traditionally depicted as a knowledge and value archetype, appears to us the stranger the more controllable and disintegrated they seem. To look for an appropriate space for their artistic manifestation obliges a reconsideration of all the cultural processes we use to interpret the world as a place where a spiritual dimension is still possible.

This research project investigates images from the contemporary Australian mid-life psyche, exploring the contribution to individual transformation made through the creation of, and reflective engagement with, personal imagery. Asking the question: 'What do contemporary Australian mid-life males consider to be a rich and sustaining inner life?' This project documents the visual images, descriptions, and reflections of a group of five participants, discussing the individuals' experiences of aesthetic self-inquiry with reference to divergent theories of psychology, art therapy and philosophy of aesthetics.

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國立屏東教育大學
數理教育研究所
101
This study adopted qualitative research method. During the study process, the researcher used the teaching strategy of POE (Prediction, Observation, Explanation) with aesthetic experience to conduct animal concept teaching for the third graders. The purpose of this study was to investigate conceptual change of animal concepts and the impact on students’ interest in learning after the teaching activities. The researcher selected 29 third graders from a Kaohsiung elementary school as the study subject for the reason of convenience. Going along with Nani textbook unit content titled “The Body and Movement of Animals,” the researcher interviewed the above students and sorted their alternative conception, from which the unit learning forms were developed. Then the researcher reunited the teaching strategy of POE with elements of appreciation, game playing, imagination and creation in aesthetic experience to carry out teaching activities. Besides, the researcher handed out “Students Science Learning Questionnaire” to students before and after the sessions, so as to have a clear understanding of the influence of the teaching activities on students’ interest in science learning. The collected information from the teaching activities, including POE learning form, aesthetic experience learning form, before-and-after teaching interviews, teaching activities recording of sounds and images and reflections, was used to examine the students’ learning characteristics of each unit concept. According to the purpose of this study, the researcher produced the following conclusions: 1. After attending the teaching activities of reuniting the teaching strategy of POE with aesthetic experience, students were found to have an increase of interest in learning science, having conspicuous improvement in learning involvement. 2. During the teaching process, the incorporation of aesthetic experience could endow students with new perspectives to see science with new visions and stimulate their self research interest. 3. On the topic of animal classification, students were likely to have misconceptions, matching closely with the research results of relevant researches in Taiwan. Students often classified animals according to their names, activity areas, appearances, movement patterns and modes of reproduction. 4. Most students possessing alternative conceptions, after the teaching activities of reuniting the teaching strategy of POE with aesthetic experience, were able to rectify those alternative conceptions and changed them into correct science concepts.

The main aim of my work of research has been to provide a reformulation of the fundamental coordinates of Evolutionary Aesthetics, in light of the revised conceptual toolkit provided by the so-called "Extended Evolutionary Synthesis” (Pigliucci-Mueller 2010). In doing so, I have engaged with a significant amount of literature published in recent years in the field of Evolutionary Aesthetics. Through a careful review of the literature, I have shown that the variety of perspectives and lines of interpretation developed up to the present in the field of Evolutionary Aesthetics (mainly inspired by the research program named “Evolutionary Psychology”, EP) lacks effective explanatory power. I have attempted, therefore, to elaborate a kind of new “basic grammar” for Evolutionary Aesthetics, taking into account the recent adjustments, critical reviews and conceptual extensions of the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis.

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國立臺灣師範大學
翻譯研究所
107
Abstract The field of translation studies has expanded much in the last thirty years, since the late eighties when it first became recognised by the Western academic world as a legitimate discipline. In the thick of the age of interdisciplinary studies, translation has gone beyond a language-to-language duality, a phenomenon most notably traced back to what is considered the cultural turn in Translation Studies, opening up to fields that have once regarded translation as nothing more than a secondary activity. This dissertation is onboard with such a progress, as it examines George Orwell’s Animal Farm as an act of translation, culminating in a narrative both as a text and as an agenda. By adopting a structuralist approach to narratology as a means of appraising the text, and then subsequently applying the arguments of Andre Lefevere’s concept of rewriting as delineated in his seminal text, Translation, Rewriting, and the Manipulation of Literary Fame, this dissertation looks at how Animal Farm is Orwell’s translation of his politics into his aesthetics. Keywords: Orwell, Animal Farm, narratology, Lefevere, Translation, Rewriting, and the Manipulation of Literary Fame,

A cultural, historical, and scientific survey of the phenomena of primate pictorial behavior, presented in a series of interconnected vignettes. What do primates find visually appealing? What is their motivation when creating images? What are the implications for art and for science? By drawing explicit and implicit connections between science, art, case studies, research, and personal narrative, I attempt to weave together what we know, and what we may never be able to know about this complex field.

Relatório de estágio de mestrado em Educação Pré-Escolar
Este relatório de estágio foi realizado tendo por base o estágio curricular realizado nas valências de Pré-Escolar e de Creche no Patronato Nossa Senhora da Torre. Tem como título “O mundo dos animais e a perceção estético musical da natureza” – Projeto de intervenção para a Educação Pré-Escolar centrado na peça musical “Carnaval dos Animais” de Camille Saint Saens e na “Enciclopédia da Música com Bicho”, e trata essencialmente a importância da música na Educação Pré-Escolar, e a perceção estético musical, tendo por base a temática animal. Este tema surgiu em parte das crianças pois tanto a música como os animais são para elas temáticas fascinantes. Todas as atividades foram realizadas tendo em conta uma sequência, mas também as reações das crianças às atividades anteriores, sendo modificadas quando necessário. Este projeto, tendo por base o modelo curricular High/Scope, tinha como principal objetivo desenvolver a noção de que uma mesma realidade pode ser observada, interpretada e compreendida segundo várias perspetivas que ultrapassam a sensorial (p.e. a perspetiva estética). Este objetivo foi alcançado assim como outros e todas as atividades foram do agrado das crianças, sendo realizadas com grande entusiasmo, fazendo assim com que este projeto tivesse sucesso em ambas as valências.
This internship report was conducted based on the curricular internship held in the Patronato Nossa Senhora da Torre’ Preschool and Daycare valences. The report is entitled “The world of animals and the musical aesthetical perception of nature” – Project of intervention for Preschool Education, centered in the musical “Carnaval dos Animais” by Camille Saint Saens and in the “Enciclopédia da Música com Bicho”. The report concerns essentially the importance of music in Preschooler Education and the musical aesthetic perception, based on the theme “the animals”. This subject was suggested by the children since both the music and the animals are fascinating subjects to them. All the activities follow a sequence, but were also planned according to the children’s reaction to the previous activities done and were modified when necessary. This project, based on the curricular model “High/Scope”, had as main objective to develop the idea that the same reality can be observed, interpreted and understood according to various perspectives that go beyond the sensorial capability (eg. the aesthetic perspective). This goal and other defined were achieved; all the activities pleased the children since they were carried with great enthusiasm, making this project successful in both valences.

“The city of living garbage” tours private houses in Austin transformed by their inhabitants into quasi-public places – art environments and permaculture systems made possible by urban waste. The creators of these micro-utopias collect and improvise with salvaged materials like roadside junk, greywater, unwanted animals, and half-forgotten cultural forms to cultivate habitats where undervalued things flourish. They revalue waste through a variety of practices like caring for, teaching, learning, enjoying, and tinkering. Becoming part of these relational patterns is a way to slow down and find wonder and pleasure in the ordinary, but also to act on ecological problems in the larger world. The landscape patches that emerge are lively but vulnerable assemblages that artists, activists, and their nonhuman allies belong to as local characters. By being open for tours, the places loosely connect publics that share modes of attention set on urban natures, salvageable garbage, and vernacular aesthetics. These informal institutions, non-profits, and vulnerable for-profit businesses are caught up in Austin’s current sustainable and cultural development strategies, but also share in an informal economy through their use of valueless wastes. Some articulate with contemporary localization movements that seek to reconfigure water, food, and energy production to decrease their precarious dependence on globalized economies. Others refuse the boundary between art and everyday life by recasting houses as never-ending aesthetic projects. Similarly, as wildlife habitats and urban gardens, they are thriving examples of cultivated places that disrupt an assumed antithesis between cities and ecosystems. These embodied critiques or dreams are small-scale manifestations of what urban natures might become. Borrowing from Deleuze & Guattari, Haraway, Latour, and Thrift, I attend to these places’ ecological and aesthetic relational dynamics that communicate directly through bodies, senses, and forms. This non-representational approach recognizes the contributions of nonhuman agents like plants, animals, microbes, and machines in composing affective landscapes. The writing strives to be a mode of research that is isomorphic with the phenomena it describes. It is impelled by a love of the places, people, and beings it researches; it aspires to preserve a little bit of them by redoubling their presence in the world.
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1 Abstract Every year, the number of species considered as endangered increases, especially due to human activities. Nowadays, captive breeding in zoological gardens becomes an option for their survival in refugees. Zoological gardens function as so-called "Noah's Ark", which has the potential to shelter a large amount of individuals from many species. In the future, this opportunity may give us a chance to reintroduce a species that disappeared in the nature. There are many factors influencing which species will be selected to be kept in zoos, e.g., the IUCN status, taxonomical uniqueness, availability, etc., but it was found that especially the size of the animal and the human aesthetic preferences affect the selection. However, every group of animals is evaluated independently in the terms of beauty, and thus, it is necessary to detect these rules and then to apply them to conservation projects. This thesis examines the factors that influence human aesthetic preferences to mammals, both in terms of the characteristics of animals (their colour and morphology), and in terms of human factors (gender, age, education, residence). It was found that especially the pattern, saturation and overall lightness of the animal affect the evaluation of beauty in mammals. On the other hand, dark colours are evaluated...

The subject of diploma paper was anallysis of perception children and youth related to visual art. In the first chapter of theoretic part diploma paper I explain definitions related to the subject, i.e. that is fine art, aesthetics, culture, kitsch and relation of this species to the human being. In next chapters I acte problems, definition, delimitation of the odd time and I explain possibilities of transmission visual art to children and young people. The theoretic part of diploma paper is dedicated to possibilities of confrontation children and youth people with the visual art through various cultural institutions. This part of diploma paper is ended with basic dividing of spare-time activitity organizations. The practical part of diploma paper is dedicated to visual art project {\clq}qWho knows Piaristic square``, {\clq}qConversation`` and {\clq}qEntities in the nature``. Visual art expression of subjective experience evoked by visual perception of concrete image is the aim of this project. The project is intended for the children and youth in age between 8 and 24 years. I confront by means of projects both various components of visual art (painting, sculpture and architecture) and various movement epoch (gothic style, baroque and modern style). I wanted find the way how to transmit visual art to children and youth enjoyable, educational with aesthetic value. The end of the diploma paper summaries pieces of knowledge and perceptions from the visual art courses and projects.

The diploma thesis aspires, in its theoretical part, for a description of the theoretical and methodical basis and objectives of the educational process in the courses "Life and Art. " This school subject shall provide pupils of 58th grades in primary school with a basic cultural overview of medieval, Renaissance and Baroque architecture and art. The theses defines the concepts of animation, cultural animation and enculturation, experiential education, creative education and artefiletics, and outlines the prospects of their use in the educational process. The thesis also deals with the theory of perception in art and its connection to the pedagogical practice. It mentions the term genius loci as one of the elements of cognition of an architectural object and the place where it is located. In the practical part of the thesis, the individual architectural object of the Tabor Urban Conservation Area and it's immediate neighborhood are described. The thesis provides cultural, general and local historical, and also the theological context of art styles and places, which are the subject of the educational program. Following that, the thesis introduces examples of didactic methods, applicable in the courses "Life and Art."

This thesis covers the interpretation of life and work of Marc Chagall, jewish painter of 20th century. Goal of the thesis is to highlight symbolic motives of his work, and later on interpret those on selected pieces. The thesis is divided into four parts. First part is devoted to the life of the painter and his jewish origin, which had a significant influence on the character of his work. Second part covers the meaning of symbols in art and religon in general. Third tries to compare Chagall's conveyance with two jewish philosophers of the dialog: E. Lévinas and F. Rosenzweig. Fourth then interprets selected pieces with philosophical or religious extent. Whole thesis is based on the conception that art is able to convey messages and interpret the world around us.