Aesthetic Autonomy: Problems and Perspectives.BH151 2004-061676 90-429-1579-X Aesthetic autonomy; problems and perspectives. Title main entry. Ed. by Barend van Heusden and Liesbeth Korthals Altes. (Groningen studies in cultural change; v. 15) Peeters Publishing, [c]2004 144 p. $50.00 According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. editors Van Heusden (film studies and semiotics semiotics or semiology, discipline deriving from the American logician C. S. Peirce and the French linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. It has come to mean generally the study of any cultural product (e.g., a text) as a formal system of signs. of culture, U. of Groningen, the Netherlands) and Korthals Altes (comparative and modern French literature, U. of Groningen), the autonomy of art can be understood in a number of ways: as semantic See semantics. See also Symantec. or referential autonomy with regard to representing historical reality, ethical autonomy with regard to social norms and values, institutional autonomy within the broader realm of culture, and functional autonomy representing reality in a way differing from other forms. These various autonomies, well established since the 18th century, are coming under increasing questioning, they suggest, and the purpose of this collection of seven papers is to examine various aspects of this process. Topics include the hybrid autonomy of pop music, debates about culture and art in South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. during political transformation, and the Symbolists' concept of artistic creation in the arts and literature of Russian Avant-Gardism. Distributed by the David Brown David Brown may refer to any of the following people:
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