Carolyn Korsmeyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 401092 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carolyn Korsmeyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carolyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Korsmeyer |
| SIGNATURE | KORSMEYER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Tour of the Senses
Traditionally, the bodily senses of smell, taste, and touch have been designated 'nonaesthetic' senses and their objects considered unsuited to be fashioned into works of fine art. Recent innovations in the art world, however, have introduced scents, tastes, and tactile qualities into gallery exhibits, movements that, at least superficially, appear parallel to philosophical revaluations of the senses. This paper investigates the aesthetic scope o…
Wild Effervescences
Efervescencias salvajes: una mirada retrospectiva al arte feminista
Philosophers at Table
This subtly ambitious book has two related purposes: (1) to explore what philosophical investigation looks like when human beings are considered as hungry creatures with demanding stomachs rather t
Real Old Things
Although we experience many cultural artifacts by way of reproductions, there remains a particular thrill in experiencing genuine objects—'real things'. I argue that genuineness is a property that possesses many dimensions of value, including aesthetic value. Typically, aesthetic qualities are perceptual, but genuineness is not a perceptual property. I investigate the aesthetic dimensions of genuineness by considering the role of touch in encount…
Genuineness
Touch and the Experience of the Genuine
Journal Article Touch and the Experience of the Genuine Get access Carolyn Korsmeyer Carolyn Korsmeyer University at Buffalo [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 52, Issue 4, October 2012, Pages 365–377, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ays043 Published: 11 October 2012
Disgust and Aesthetics
Disgust is an emotion that is visceral, reactive, and uncomfortable. It is also purposively aroused by art in ways that contribute substantially to the meaning of a work. In such cases "aesthetic disgust" is a component of understanding and appreciation. Disgust comes in many varieties, including the humorous, the horrid, and the tragic. The responses it elicits can be strong or subtle, but few are actually pleasant. Therefore aesthetic disgust r…
The Sensory Experience of Food
This article examines the multisensory nature of the gustatory experience, arguing for a broader understanding of taste that moves beyond the traditional focus on the tongue and incorporates the contributions of the other senses, particularly smell, touch, and sight. It explores how these senses interact and influence our perception and appreciation of food, highlighting the importance of the food's texture, temperature, appearance, and aroma in …
Jane Duran Women, Philosophy, and Literature. Hampshire, UK, Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2007
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What Beauty Promises
Alexander Nehamas calls beauty a ‘promise of happiness’ and claims that it is an object of love. While this approach appealingly places beauty at the center of both artistic passion and everyday life, it also renders it riskily personal. This discussion raises two main questions to Nehamas. The first question regards the role of happiness in the concept of beauty, for many beautiful artworks seem to acknowledge the inevitability of sorrow rather …
Questions of Taste
Journal Article Questions of Taste: The Philosophy of Wine Get access Questions of Taste: The Philosophy of Wine. Edited by BARRY C. SMITH. Signal Books. 2007. pp. xvii + 222. £12.99 (hbk) Carolyn Korsmeyer Carolyn Korsmeyer University at Buffalo, State University of New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 48, Issue 2, April 2008, Pages 233–235, https://doi.org/10…
Gender and Aesthetics
The book introduces in clear language the role gender plays in our understanding of art, creativity, and aesthetic qualities. Philosophies of the past are examined for their influence over gendered ways of conceiving aesthetics; and contemporary theorists such as Arthur Danto and Luce Irigaray are situated in relation to feminist art practices. Each chapter concludes with a summary, and there is an extensive bibliography." "Carolyn Korsmeyer's st…
Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics
Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics takes a fresh look at the history of aesthetics and at current debates within the philosophy of art by exploring the ways in which gender informs notions of art and creativity, evaluation and interpretation, and concepts of aesthetic value. Multiple intellectual traditions have formed this field, and the discussions herein range from consideration of eighteenth century legacies of ideas about taste, beauty, an…
Aesthetics in Feminist Perspective
Philosophical aesthetics and theories of art are among the last areas in which feminist critiques of traditional disciplinary assumptions are being explored. Aesthetics in Feminist Perspective examines the intellectual traditions of the philosophy of art and aesthetics. Containing essays by scholars and by the writer Marilyn French, the collection ranges from the history of aesthetic theory to a philosophical reflection on fashion. The contributi…
The Object of Performance
The Eclipse of Truth in the Rise of Aesthetics
Journal Article THE ECLIPSE OF TRUTH IN THE RISE OF AESTHETICS Get access Carolyn Korsmeyer Carolyn Korsmeyer Department of Philosophy, State University of New YorkBuffalo, Baldy Hall, Buffalo, New York 14260, U.S.A. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 29, Issue 4, AUTUMN 1989, Pages 293–302, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/29.4.293 Published: 01 April 1989
Feminist Scholarship
Feminist Knowledge
Jodi Wetzel, Feminist Knowledge: A Review Essay, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 8, No. 3, Tenth Anniversary Issue: The Women's Studies Movement: A Decade Inside the Academy (1986), pp. 119-122
Relativism and Hutcheson's Aesthetic Theory
The Sensory Experience of Food
This article examines the multisensory nature of the gustatory experience, arguing for a broader understanding of taste that moves beyond the traditional focus on the tongue and incorporates the contributions of the other senses, particularly smell, touch, and sight. It explores how these senses interact and influence our perception and appreciation of food, highlighting the importance of the food's texture, temperature, appearance, and aroma in …
Real Old Things
Although we experience many cultural artifacts by way of reproductions, there remains a particular thrill in experiencing genuine objects—'real things'. I argue that genuineness is a property that possesses many dimensions of value, including aesthetic value. Typically, aesthetic qualities are perceptual, but genuineness is not a perceptual property. I investigate the aesthetic dimensions of genuineness by considering the role of touch in encount…
Disgust and Aesthetics
Disgust is an emotion that is visceral, reactive, and uncomfortable. It is also purposively aroused by art in ways that contribute substantially to the meaning of a work. In such cases "aesthetic disgust" is a component of understanding and appreciation. Disgust comes in many varieties, including the humorous, the horrid, and the tragic. The responses it elicits can be strong or subtle, but few are actually pleasant. Therefore aesthetic disgust r…
A Tour of the Senses
Traditionally, the bodily senses of smell, taste, and touch have been designated 'nonaesthetic' senses and their objects considered unsuited to be fashioned into works of fine art. Recent innovations in the art world, however, have introduced scents, tastes, and tactile qualities into gallery exhibits, movements that, at least superficially, appear parallel to philosophical revaluations of the senses. This paper investigates the aesthetic scope o…
Touch and the Experience of the Genuine
Journal Article Touch and the Experience of the Genuine Get access Carolyn Korsmeyer Carolyn Korsmeyer University at Buffalo [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 52, Issue 4, October 2012, Pages 365–377, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ays043 Published: 11 October 2012
Questions of Taste
Journal Article Questions of Taste: The Philosophy of Wine Get access Questions of Taste: The Philosophy of Wine. Edited by BARRY C. SMITH. Signal Books. 2007. pp. xvii + 222. £12.99 (hbk) Carolyn Korsmeyer Carolyn Korsmeyer University at Buffalo, State University of New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 48, Issue 2, April 2008, Pages 233–235, https://doi.org/10…
Philosophers at Table
This subtly ambitious book has two related purposes: (1) to explore what philosophical investigation looks like when human beings are considered as hungry creatures with demanding stomachs rather t
What Beauty Promises
Alexander Nehamas calls beauty a ‘promise of happiness’ and claims that it is an object of love. While this approach appealingly places beauty at the center of both artistic passion and everyday life, it also renders it riskily personal. This discussion raises two main questions to Nehamas. The first question regards the role of happiness in the concept of beauty, for many beautiful artworks seem to acknowledge the inevitability of sorrow rather …
The Eclipse of Truth in the Rise of Aesthetics
Journal Article THE ECLIPSE OF TRUTH IN THE RISE OF AESTHETICS Get access Carolyn Korsmeyer Carolyn Korsmeyer Department of Philosophy, State University of New YorkBuffalo, Baldy Hall, Buffalo, New York 14260, U.S.A. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 29, Issue 4, AUTUMN 1989, Pages 293–302, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/29.4.293 Published: 01 April 1989
Relativism and Hutcheson's Aesthetic Theory
Relativism and Hutcheson's Aesthetic Theory
Feminist Scholarship
Feminist Knowledge
Jodi Wetzel, Feminist Knowledge: A Review Essay, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 8, No. 3, Tenth Anniversary Issue: The Women's Studies Movement: A Decade Inside the Academy (1986), pp. 119-122
The Eclipse of Truth in the Rise of Aesthetics
Journal Article THE ECLIPSE OF TRUTH IN THE RISE OF AESTHETICS Get access Carolyn Korsmeyer Carolyn Korsmeyer Department of Philosophy, State University of New YorkBuffalo, Baldy Hall, Buffalo, New York 14260, U.S.A. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 29, Issue 4, AUTUMN 1989, Pages 293–302, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/29.4.293 Published: 01 April 1989
The Object of Performance
Aesthetics in Feminist Perspective
Philosophical aesthetics and theories of art are among the last areas in which feminist critiques of traditional disciplinary assumptions are being explored. Aesthetics in Feminist Perspective examines the intellectual traditions of the philosophy of art and aesthetics. Containing essays by scholars and by the writer Marilyn French, the collection ranges from the history of aesthetic theory to a philosophical reflection on fashion. The contributi…
Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics
Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics takes a fresh look at the history of aesthetics and at current debates within the philosophy of art by exploring the ways in which gender informs notions of art and creativity, evaluation and interpretation, and concepts of aesthetic value. Multiple intellectual traditions have formed this field, and the discussions herein range from consideration of eighteenth century legacies of ideas about taste, beauty, an…
Gender and Aesthetics
The book introduces in clear language the role gender plays in our understanding of art, creativity, and aesthetic qualities. Philosophies of the past are examined for their influence over gendered ways of conceiving aesthetics; and contemporary theorists such as Arthur Danto and Luce Irigaray are situated in relation to feminist art practices. Each chapter concludes with a summary, and there is an extensive bibliography." "Carolyn Korsmeyer's st…
Questions of Taste
Journal Article Questions of Taste: The Philosophy of Wine Get access Questions of Taste: The Philosophy of Wine. Edited by BARRY C. SMITH. Signal Books. 2007. pp. xvii + 222. £12.99 (hbk) Carolyn Korsmeyer Carolyn Korsmeyer University at Buffalo, State University of New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 48, Issue 2, April 2008, Pages 233–235, https://doi.org/10…
Jane Duran Women, Philosophy, and Literature. Hampshire, UK, Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2007
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
What Beauty Promises
Alexander Nehamas calls beauty a ‘promise of happiness’ and claims that it is an object of love. While this approach appealingly places beauty at the center of both artistic passion and everyday life, it also renders it riskily personal. This discussion raises two main questions to Nehamas. The first question regards the role of happiness in the concept of beauty, for many beautiful artworks seem to acknowledge the inevitability of sorrow rather …
The Sensory Experience of Food
This article examines the multisensory nature of the gustatory experience, arguing for a broader understanding of taste that moves beyond the traditional focus on the tongue and incorporates the contributions of the other senses, particularly smell, touch, and sight. It explores how these senses interact and influence our perception and appreciation of food, highlighting the importance of the food's texture, temperature, appearance, and aroma in …
Touch and the Experience of the Genuine
Journal Article Touch and the Experience of the Genuine Get access Carolyn Korsmeyer Carolyn Korsmeyer University at Buffalo [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 52, Issue 4, October 2012, Pages 365–377, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ays043 Published: 11 October 2012
Disgust and Aesthetics
Disgust is an emotion that is visceral, reactive, and uncomfortable. It is also purposively aroused by art in ways that contribute substantially to the meaning of a work. In such cases "aesthetic disgust" is a component of understanding and appreciation. Disgust comes in many varieties, including the humorous, the horrid, and the tragic. The responses it elicits can be strong or subtle, but few are actually pleasant. Therefore aesthetic disgust r…
Genuineness
Philosophers at Table
This subtly ambitious book has two related purposes: (1) to explore what philosophical investigation looks like when human beings are considered as hungry creatures with demanding stomachs rather t
Real Old Things
Although we experience many cultural artifacts by way of reproductions, there remains a particular thrill in experiencing genuine objects—'real things'. I argue that genuineness is a property that possesses many dimensions of value, including aesthetic value. Typically, aesthetic qualities are perceptual, but genuineness is not a perceptual property. I investigate the aesthetic dimensions of genuineness by considering the role of touch in encount…
Wild Effervescences
Efervescencias salvajes: una mirada retrospectiva al arte feminista
A Tour of the Senses
Traditionally, the bodily senses of smell, taste, and touch have been designated 'nonaesthetic' senses and their objects considered unsuited to be fashioned into works of fine art. Recent innovations in the art world, however, have introduced scents, tastes, and tactile qualities into gallery exhibits, movements that, at least superficially, appear parallel to philosophical revaluations of the senses. This paper investigates the aesthetic scope o…
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