The Aesthetics of Atmospheres (Ambiances, Atmospheres and Sensory Experiences of Spaces) by Böhme, Gernot -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Figure Acknowledgements from the International Ambiances Network Foreword Introduction

The aesthetic theory of atmospheres Applications of the concept of atmospheres Conclusion Notes

Part I: Theory: aesthetics and aesthetical economy

1. Atmosphere as a fundamental concept of a new aesthetics1

Atmosphere A new aesthetics Benjamin’s aura The concept of atmosphere in the philosophy of Hermann Schmitz The thing and its ecstasies The making of atmospheres Conclusion Notes

2. Atmosphere as an aesthetic concept

Between Spatiality and presence Performance and event Staging Construction and criticism

3. The art of the stage set as a paradigm for an aesthetics of atmospheres

Making atmospheres Atmosphere – a familiar yet extremely vague phenomenon Reception aesthetics and production aesthetics Phantastike techne Conclusion Notes

4. Kant’s aesthetics: a new perspective1

Kant’s negative aesthetics Beautiful form: Kant’s examples Communicability and sociability Education Conclusion Notes

5. On beauty

The riddle of beauty The classical answers New experiences New needs Notes

6. On synesthesia

Of an incidental nature? Goethe What is perception? The production of atmospheres in architecture Notes

7. Contribution to the critique of the aesthetic economy1

Introduction Reconstruction of critical theory Shifting the fronts of critique Notes

Part II: Aesthetics of nature and art

8. Aesthetic knowledge of nature

The new aesthetics Nature Aesthetic knowledge of nature Communication in nature The ecstatics of nature The cipher of nature Notes

9. Nature in the age of its technical reproducibility

Introduction Hubris? Nature and technology Nature and art The nature that we are Conclusion Notes

10. Body, nature, and art

Body and nature Body: the nature that we are ourselves The closed and the open body Bodily being in the world The body felt Being a body – a task for art? Notes

11. Nature as a subject

A comeback of nature Nature: a problem of art Nature: a problem for art Notes

Part III: Architecture

12. The atmosphere of a city1

Odors As matters stand The concept of atmosphere Generators of atmosphere Conclusion Notes

13. Atmosphere as the subject matter of architecture

The difficulty of talking about architecture The perception of architecture Architecture and space Conclusion: architecture or stage design? Notes

14. Staged materiality

Two bookshops Material and materiality The manifestation of materiality The iconology of materials Sensing material Note

15. Architecture: a visual art?1

A natural alliance? Criticism Space, the scenic, and photography Notes

16. Metaphors in architecture – a metaphor?

Architecture as language What are metaphors? Metaphors in architecture Conclusion Notes

Part IV: Light and sound

17. Acoustic atmospheres

Introduction The state of the aesthetics of atmospheres The aesthetic conquest of acoustic space Acoustic atmospheres Conclusion Notes

18. Music and architecture

The trivial connections The center: the space Atmospheres Notes

19. The great concert of the world

Introduction The art of modernism and the aesthetics of atmospheres The aesthetic conquest of acoustic space Music and soundscape, music of the soundscape Acoustic atmospheres Conclusion Notes

20. Seeing light

Is light invisible? Light rays, luminous bodies Sources of light Pure light phenomena Lightness Illuminations Dealing with light Notes

21. The phenomenology of light

Cleared space Light space Lights in space Light and things Notes

Bibliography Index Back cover

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