Aesthetics & Art Theory

0001 Michèle Hannoosh, Histoire d'une édition: le Journal de Delacroix

Delacroix's Journal is one of the most important works in the literature of art history – a primary source on nineteenth-century France, an extraordinary reflexion on aesthetics, and a great work of literature in its own right. The new critical edition [...]

0002 Maria Poprzęcka, A Picture behind Glass

The paper considers the singular situation of reception occasioned by a painting shielded with a reflective pane of glass. The reflections in the glass dramatically break the cohesion of the painting and [...]

0009 Anne Ring Petersen, Attention and Distraction: On the Aesthetic Experience of Video Installation Art

This article examines the interrelationship between attention and distraction in the reception of video installation art, a genre which is commonly associated with "immersion" and an intensified feeling of presence. This tends to veil the fact that [...]

0017 Nissim Gal, Landscape Painting. Rewriting Painting in the Postmedium Condition

Is landscape painting still relevant today? To answer this question the article examines the work of the contemporary artist Yehudit Sasportas whose unique kind of written-drawn landscape painting may be characterized as "painting under erasure" [...]

0018 Cosmin Ungureanu, "Sia funzion la rappresentazione." Carlo Lodoli and the Crisis of Architecture

Similarly with the progressive turn from magic to sciences, architecture underwent a slow transformation starting with the last decades of the 17th century. Carlo Lodoli's thought [...]

0023 Satish Padiyar, Last Words: David's Mars Disarmed by Venus and the Graces (1824). Subjectivity, Death, and Postrevolutionary Late Style

Completed as he was approaching death in 1825, Jacques-Louis David's final refractory history painting is an intricate summation of a life in politics and painting. [...]

0037 Bregje Hofstede, Phonemes, Graphemes, Dabs of Paint: Roman Jakobson, the Russian avant-garde and the search for the shared basic elements of painting and poetry

The subject of this paper is the supposed affinity between painting and poetry as theorised by the linguist Roman Jakobson who played a crucial role for the Russian avant-garde [...]