Winner of the Fabian Dorsch ESA Essay Prize. In this paper, I introduce an account aesthetic understanding. Recent discussions understanding have associated it with justification and why, for example, a given object is aesthetically valuable. notion as form objectual understanding, which refer to ‘appreciative understanding’. Appreciative related partly constituted by agent’s c...

Introduction This edited collection approaches the ‘studio’ as a key site for the production of cultural artefacts, and in doing so it aims to open up a novel and underdeveloped topic for social and cultural research. As the various chapters of this book will demonstrate, studios play an essential role in the bringing into being of all manner of aesthetic, affective and reflexive objects includ...