Hans Maes
Biographic Data
| ID | 1119370 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hans Maes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hans |
| FAMILY NAME | Maes |
| SIGNATURE | MAES H |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Peaks and Troughs
status: Published
Portraits and Philosophy
Portraits and Philosophy
"Portraiture is one of the most well-established genres in art. One finds portraits not just in museums and galleries, but also in newspapers and magazines, in the homes of people and in the boardrooms of companies, on stamps and coins, and on millions of cell phones and computers. Despite its huge popularity, however, portraiture hasn't received much philosophical attention. While there are countless art historical studies of portraiture, includ…
Lady jane grey or queen kateryn parr? National portrait gallery painting 6804
In October 2006, the National Portrait Gallery in London acquired a late sixteenth-century, three-quarters length panel portrait of a woman, NPG 6804, and concluded that this work was a copy taken from an original likeness of the elusive Lady Jane Grey (c.1537–1554), portraying her in 1553 during her brief reign as nine-day queen. Since then new historical research has been published which throws doubt on both this identification and on the datin…
What Is a Portrait
In answering the title question this paper will aim for extensional adequacy, that is, it will aim to formulate an account that captures as much of the extension as possible of what we ordinarily think counts as a portrait. Two philosophers have recently, and independently from one another, embarked on the same project. Cynthia Freeland’s theory of portraiture, as it is developed in her book Portraits & Persons, is discussed in sections 1 and 2 o…
Pornographic Art and the Aesthetics of Pornography
Art and pornography
This book presents a series of essays which investigate the artistic status and aesthetic dimension of pornographic pictures, films, and literature, and explores the distinction, if there is any, between pornography and erotic art. Is there any overlap between art and pornography, or are the two mutually exclusive? If they are, why is that? If they are not, how might we characterize pornographic art or artistic pornography, and how might pornogra…
Drawing the Line
Art and pornography are often thought to be mutually exclusive. The present article argues that this popular view is without adequate support. Section 1 looks at some of the classic ways of drawing the distinction between these two domains of representation. In Section 2, it is argued that the classic dichotomies (subjectivity versus objectification, the beautiful versus the smutty, contemplation versus arousal, the complex versus the one-dimensi…
Elephants, Microscopes and Free Beauty
According to Stephen Davies, there is no such thing as free beauty. Using actual and imaginary examples, he tries to show that our aesthetic evaluations of objects inevitably pay heed to the kinds to which they belong or in which we judge them to belong. His examples are not as compelling as he thinks, however. Furthermore, nature looked at through a microscope (or a telescope) provides us with a particular class of counter‐examples which have no…
Modesty, Asymmetry, and Hypocrisy
What Is a Portrait
In answering the title question this paper will aim for extensional adequacy, that is, it will aim to formulate an account that captures as much of the extension as possible of what we ordinarily think counts as a portrait. Two philosophers have recently, and independently from one another, embarked on the same project. Cynthia Freeland’s theory of portraiture, as it is developed in her book Portraits & Persons, is discussed in sections 1 and 2 o…
Drawing the Line
Art and pornography are often thought to be mutually exclusive. The present article argues that this popular view is without adequate support. Section 1 looks at some of the classic ways of drawing the distinction between these two domains of representation. In Section 2, it is argued that the classic dichotomies (subjectivity versus objectification, the beautiful versus the smutty, contemplation versus arousal, the complex versus the one-dimensi…
Modesty, Asymmetry, and Hypocrisy
Elephants, Microscopes and Free Beauty
According to Stephen Davies, there is no such thing as free beauty. Using actual and imaginary examples, he tries to show that our aesthetic evaluations of objects inevitably pay heed to the kinds to which they belong or in which we judge them to belong. His examples are not as compelling as he thinks, however. Furthermore, nature looked at through a microscope (or a telescope) provides us with a particular class of counter‐examples which have no…
Drawing the Line
Art and pornography are often thought to be mutually exclusive. The present article argues that this popular view is without adequate support. Section 1 looks at some of the classic ways of drawing the distinction between these two domains of representation. In Section 2, it is argued that the classic dichotomies (subjectivity versus objectification, the beautiful versus the smutty, contemplation versus arousal, the complex versus the one-dimensi…
Art and pornography
This book presents a series of essays which investigate the artistic status and aesthetic dimension of pornographic pictures, films, and literature, and explores the distinction, if there is any, between pornography and erotic art. Is there any overlap between art and pornography, or are the two mutually exclusive? If they are, why is that? If they are not, how might we characterize pornographic art or artistic pornography, and how might pornogra…
Pornographic Art and the Aesthetics of Pornography
What Is a Portrait
In answering the title question this paper will aim for extensional adequacy, that is, it will aim to formulate an account that captures as much of the extension as possible of what we ordinarily think counts as a portrait. Two philosophers have recently, and independently from one another, embarked on the same project. Cynthia Freeland’s theory of portraiture, as it is developed in her book Portraits & Persons, is discussed in sections 1 and 2 o…
Lady jane grey or queen kateryn parr? National portrait gallery painting 6804
In October 2006, the National Portrait Gallery in London acquired a late sixteenth-century, three-quarters length panel portrait of a woman, NPG 6804, and concluded that this work was a copy taken from an original likeness of the elusive Lady Jane Grey (c.1537–1554), portraying her in 1553 during her brief reign as nine-day queen. Since then new historical research has been published which throws doubt on both this identification and on the datin…
Portraits and Philosophy
Portraits and Philosophy
"Portraiture is one of the most well-established genres in art. One finds portraits not just in museums and galleries, but also in newspapers and magazines, in the homes of people and in the boardrooms of companies, on stamps and coins, and on millions of cell phones and computers. Despite its huge popularity, however, portraiture hasn't received much philosophical attention. While there are countless art historical studies of portraiture, includ…
Peaks and Troughs
status: Published
Art (7 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)