Essays about: "Zen Aesthetics."

Found 3 essays containing the words Zen Aesthetics..

  1. 1. A Soft Focus

    University essay from KTH/Ljusdesign

    Author : Revati Limbavali; [2023]
    Keywords : Study Luminaire; Design; Zen Aesthetics.;

    Abstract : The primary objective of this thesis is to create a study lamp based on research into the Zen aesthetic principles and visual perception. Visual perception is impacted by important aspects, especially vertical illumination, it is addressed here in terms of luminaire height. READ MORE

  3. 2. The non-dual and interconnected nature of aesthetic judgments

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för estetik

    Author : Josua Li; [2022]
    Keywords : Aesthetic judgment; Dualism; Non-dualism; Aesthetics; Zen; Buddhism; Dogen; Interconnectedness; Centrism; Enlightenment;

    Abstract : This thesis explores what an aesthetic judgment would be if we take existence to be non-duallyinterconnected. Interconnectedness and aesthetic judgment does not seem to be compatible becauseaesthetic judgment seems to depend on, at least, the dualism of the beautiful and the ugly and that ofsubject and object. READ MORE

  4. 3. Time, organic bonds and silence, a different perspective on a western musical tradition

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Högskolan för scen och musik

    Author : João Pedro Miguel; [2015-06-24]
    Keywords : Japanese aesthetics; music cognition; music composition; music interpretation; music perception; music psychology; orchestral conducting; organic structures; Zen Buddhism;

    Abstract : My investigation explores how a set of Japanese aesthetical conceptions related to Zen Buddhism could influence my perspective about musical interpretation and composition within a Western Art Music context, classical as well contemporary. The first part of the thesis aims at identifying a different art functionalism caused by the analysis of some influences of Japanese thoughts on Western perception of Nature and of physical phenomena, such as time and space. READ MORE