The aesthetic in colonial India
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Immanuel Kant's 'Critique of Judgment' passed from Europe, through England to India in the mid-19th century, into the programmatic attempts of colonial educators to inculcate taste in their native students. It was thought that a properly aesthetic education would suppress the native's concern with the work's proximity to divine power, a pedagogical preoccupation that came to provide a broader, ideological justification for the foundation of Government Art Schools in colonial India.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2006
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The Brazilian remake of the Orpheus legend: film theory and the aesthetic dimension
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Films are considered as signifying practices and are investigated as a process of production, exhibition and reception. The recent contributions as its point of departure is taken and two Brazilian films made in 1950s and 1990s are investigated based on a play that retells the Greek legend of Orpheus in Brazilian social and cultural settings.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2003
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'South Park's' solar anus, or Rabelais returns: cultures of consumption and the contemporary aesthetic of obscenity
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This article examines the social aspects of obscenity in the postmodern era, focusing on the transgressions in Trey Parker and Matt Stones animated television show, 'South Park.' Topics addressed include the mass culture of consumerism and the grotesque that characterizes media society.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2001
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