Aesthetics and Cultures

Szczegóły produktu The idea of the bilateral conference “Aesthetics and Cultu-res. The 1st Polish-Japanese Meeting: Exchanging Experi-ences” was initiated by the Polish Society of Aesthetics and firmly supported by the Japanese Society for Aesthetics. It was for the first time that the PSA organized a mutual con-ference concerning intercultural studies in aesthetics. A question arises why it is that the remote Japan become the first partner on the path of developing a tradition of bilateral conferences between two countries representing two different cultures. This book tries, at least to a certain extent, to answer the question. Although aesthetics is one discipline among others, this “small window” opens the broad perspective on art, theory of art as well as on all cultural phenomena, espe-cially those that are today in the process of intensive aesthetization. Contents Krystyna Wilkoszewska, Introduction Chapter I Aesthetic categories Ken’ichi Sasaki, Feeling Bohdan Dziemidok, Aesthetic and Cultural Aspects of the Sense of Humor Chapter II Intercultural Influences Shigemi Inaga, Yukio Yashiro (1890–1975) between the East and the West in Search of an Aesthetic Dialogue Krystyna Wilkoszewska, Japonism in Polish Modernist Painting Hiroshi Yoshioka, Reconsidering “Japanese Aesthetics” from the Intercultural Point of View Jakub Petri, Does Somaesthetics Meet East in the Reflection on the Body? Chapter III Reconsidering Painting Ken’ichi Iwaki, The Concept of Color in Traditional Chinese and Japanese Theories of Painting from the Perspective of Comparative Aesthetics Agnieszka Kozyra, The Affirmation of the Ordinary Mind (Byojoshin) in the Landscapes of Sesshu Toyo (1430–1506) Marzenna Jakubczak, Aesthetization of Nature: How Buddhist is the Japanese Idea of “Nature”? Yuko Nakama, Near and Far Landscape: Contemporary Vision of Nature Between and Beyond Cultural Differences Chapter IV Practicing Art Fumikazu Kishi, Aesthetics of “Kawaii”: Analyzing Contemporary Japanese TV Advertisements Hisashi Muroi, Ten Years of the Yokohama Triennale. The Condition of Art Festivals in Japan and East Asia Akiko Kasuya, “Overturning” the Everyday: One Aspect of Contemporary Art Chapter V Theatre and Drama Henryk Lipszyc, Some Reminiscences about Polish-Japanese Contacts in the Field of Performing Arts against the Background of Mutual Cultural Relations Beata Kubiak Ho-Chi, The Tragic in Japanese and Polish 18th-century Drama: The Battles of Coxinga by Chikamatsu and The Tragedy of Epaminondas by Konarski Jakub Karpoluk, Working with Shite Actors. Perspectives of Studying Classical Japanese Performing Arts by Doing Them