Response to Tavin's "The Magical Quality of Aesthetics"

Autor/in	Carter, Mary C.
Titel	Response to Tavin's "The Magical Quality of Aesthetics"
Quelle	In: Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 50 (2009) 4, S.400-404 (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0039-3541
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Art Education; Aesthetics; Theories; Psychiatry; Psychological Patterns; Phenomenology; Music; Visual Arts + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arts; Education; Art in Education; Kunst; Bildung; Erziehung; Ästhetik; Theory; Theorie; Psychiatrie; Phenomenological psychology; Phänomenologie; Psychologie; Musik; Optische Gestaltung
Abstract	In this commentary, I argue that Kevin Tavin's (2008) use of Lacan's "objet a" in his "Studies in Art Education" commentary "The Magical Quality of Aesthetics" is not a helpful analogy or solution for art education's search for the role of aesthetics. I offer that a pragmatist and dialogic viewpoint may be more useful and, because it describes the phenomenological experience of meaning and value, I also suggest it as a way of viewing aesthetics itself. This argument is supported with two examples: the covering of the "Guernica" tapestry at the United Nations during Colin Powell's presentation in 2003, and Darryl McDaniels' (co-founder of Run-D.M.C.) experience with Sara McLachlan's song "In the Arms of an Angel." (Contains 3 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10