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CONTENTS:
INTRODUCTION – Jale Erzen
PANELS:
1 ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY
Elements of the post-functionalist Urbanism – Heinz Paetzold
Actuating. Koolhaas’ Urban Aesthetics – Margitta Buchert
Towards a Critical Construal of City and Nature: A Brief Environmental History, Ankara – Güven Sargın
2 ART AND POLITICS
Art and Politics – Aleš Erjavec
Romantic Politics and Revolutionary Art: The Manifestoes of the Avant-Gardes – Anthony J. Cascardi
Post-Colonial Perils: Art and National Impossibilities – Patrick D. Flores
AIDS and Artistic Politics – Tyrus Miller
Politics and Art: A Controversy after the Fall of the Berlin Wall – Miško Šuvaković
3 ASIAN DIVERSITIES
Introduction – Gao Jianping
To What Extent Are Japanese Aesthetics Asian? On the Self-Images of Modern Japan – Tanehisa Otabe
The Concept of Beauty from Plotinus to St. Augustine and Ghazzali and Art of Abstraction in Medieval Eastern Mediterranean – Ali Uzay Peker
Towards Performative Mimesis – Parul Dave Mukherji
The Beautiful in the Presence: A Phenomenological Interpretation of Traditional Chinese Aesthetics – Feng Peng
Discourses on Female Bodily Aesthetics and Their Early Revelations in The Book of Songs – Eva Kit Wah Man
4 PERSPECTIVES ON TURKISH AESTHETICS / AESTHETICS IN TURKEY & AUTHORS OF CULTURAL PRODUCTION: THE SHAPING OF AESTHETIC HISTORIES IN LATE OTTOMAN AND EARLY REPUBLICAN PERIODS
Women as Agents of Modernization in Turkey – Jale Erzen – Kıymet Giray
Schema, Internal Relation and Painting of the Between – Önay Sözer
Introduction: Authors of Cultural Production – Elvan Altan Ergut
Celal Esad Arseven’s History of Architecture between the Past and the Present – Elvan Altan Ergut
Osman Nuri Ergin: On the Works of the Istanbul Municipality – Namık Erkal
Interrupting techno-orientalism: counter-orientalism in art in Turkey from Osman Hamdi to Inci Eviner – Lewis Johnson
5 BRUNO TAUT BRIDGING CULTURES
BrunoTaut’s Transversal Approach to Modernity. Ideas and Principles on Restoration from: Bericht über die Renovierung der Yeşil Türbe in Bursa – Giorgio Gasco
Taut’s Emphasis on Climate: A Reaction to the Aesthetic Canon of International Style – Esin Boyacıoğlu
Bruno Taut in exile (1933-1938): the other Modernity – Paola Ardizzola
6 DIGITAL ARTS AND DIGITAL AESTHETICS
Introduction – Jos de Mul
The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Manipulation – Jos de Mul
Interactivity as Performative Articulation – Reneé van de Vall
On the Use and Disadvantage of Deleuze for Understanding Digital Art – Judith Wambacq
The Digital Aesthetics of Space Research – André Nusselder
7 LANDSCAPE/ENVIRONMENT/AESTHETICS
The theories of the space of the landscape in the East and the West – Hidemichi Tanaka
A flame in the Landscape: Cesare Mattei’s Architectural and Therapeutic Dream. A Study through Images and Writings – Laura Falqui – Guido Piacentini
No Landscape Without its History – Masahiro Hamashita
Literary Landscape as Real Landscape. Ideas from Gabriele D’Annunzio (A Case Study: Il Vittoriale by Gabriele D’Annunzio) – Raffaele Milani
8 RENCONTRES MÉDITERRANÉEN
Transculturalité et création : le cas des arts plastiques au Maghreb – Rachida Triki
Les cultures en tant que points de vues – Tahar Ben Guiza
Pour une communauté de communication artistique – Mounira Ben Mustapha
La Valeur Esthétique de l’Architecture Traditionnelle d’Akseki – Kemal Kavas
9 SCRIPT, LANGUAGE, AND AESTHETICS
Introduction – Haruhiko Fujita
Hittite Cuneiform Script and the Hattuša-Boğazköy Archive-Library of the Hittites – Cem Karasu
Calligraphy as an Expression of Spirituality: Arabic Calligraphy – Yasin Ceylan
GENESIS OF KANA and its relationship with Japanese art and nature – Haruhiko Fujita
The Aesthetic Features of Korean Alphabetic System – Hangul – Ertan Gökmen
The Power of Script in the Culture of Chinese Characters – Noriko Kaya
An Cló Gaelach. The role of typography in the construction of Irishness – Bharain Mac an Bhreithiún
10 SHOWING ONE’S TRUE COLORS: THE AESTHETIC INFLUENCE OF HUES, SHADES AND TONES
Defining Red – İnci Kansu
Taking a Fancy to Orange: An Aesthetic Invitation – Barbara Sandrisser
Colors of Japanese Bridges – Yoichi Kubota
PLENARIES
The Walls in/of Architecture – Gülsüm Baydar
Art in the Face of Radical Evil – Thierry de Duve
Sound Bridges and Travelling Tunes – Deniz Göktürk
State of the Arts – Joseph Margolis
Le peuple manque: La sociabilité esthétique, le “régime esthétique de l’art” et le “nouveau partage du sensible” – Maryvonne Saison
New Epistemological Meaning of the World and its Reflection on Art – İsmail Tunalı
ARTISTS’ PRESENTATIONS
What Titles don’t Tell – Arnold Berleant – Onur Türkeş
Among Several Cultures and Times – Gulammohammed Sheik
On the Work of Ayşe Erkmen: At the juncture of things – Gregory Volk