The conceptual antinomy that aesthetics has used since the early developments of its discourse has entailed a permanent polarity and effect of opposition within its main categories: beautiful/ugly, clear/obscure, ...

This theoretical proposal applies evolutionary aesthetic, animal signalling and sexual selection to understand our artistic cognition, especially rock art aesthetics. Iconographic motifs, universally found in rock art, ...

This work intends to investigate the use of psychoanalytical theory within the aesthetic and critical contemporary art field. To this purpose, it focuses on two philosophers who have become significant in our time: the art ...

Several studies reported a dependency between perceived beauty and perceived usability of a user interface. But it is still not fully clear which psychological mechanism is responsible for this dependency. We suggest a new ...

The proposal of this article is to analyze the reception of the images that portrayed the death in the Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi in 2015. Through the aesthetic experience, as methodology of data collection, and the culture ...

This paper presents a theoretical review of the key concepts proposed by the aesthetics developed by the Brazilian artist Vik Muniz. This works highlights his major work, the impacts and influences, the processes of creation, ...

With the passage from a modern to a contemporary city, new questions and challenges have arisen, in which technological changes have disorganized and reorganized the territory and, to understand the consequences caused in ...