Facial injuries are often accompanied by soft tissue injuries. The complexity of these injuries is represented by the potential for loss of relationships between the functional and the aesthetic subunits of the head. Most reviews of craniofacial trauma have concentrated on fractures. With this article, we want to emphasize the importance of early aesthetic reconstruction of the face in polytrau...

Mathematics and the aesthetics enjoy a long history of mutual references, which may be explained by the fact that both domains are dealing with relations: structure, content, schemata and (dis)similarity (cf. Wechsler 1978). And beauty? Beauty is the experience of pleasure and amazement from something that is aesthetic. Although “theorems and proofs which are agreed upon to be beautiful are rar...

Historical fabrics are known as a national heritage and treasure which are full of spiritual and human concepts. However, we are witnessing that many of these historic districts are being forgotten, abandoned and destructed as the emotional relationship between human and its residing place is fading out. Sense of place is a concept which focuses on the emotional and internal relation between pe...

If we accept that video games are a form of art (Costikyan, 1994), then it is proposed that the concept of “aesthetic distance” should also apply to them; this is a literary term, defined by Encyclopedia Britannica as “the frame of reference that an artist creates by the use of technical devices in and around the work of art to differentiate it psychologically from reality” (2010). In other wor...

In this paper aesthetic experience is defined as an experience qualitatively different from everyday experience and similar to other exceptional states of mind. Three crucial characteristics of aesthetic experience are discussed: fascination with an aesthetic object (high arousal and attention), appraisal of the symbolic reality of an object (high cognitive engagement), and a strong feeling of ...

This article seeks to show that we cannot accept an oppositlon between aesthetics and logtc on the basis of the distinctton between aesthetic emotion and cognitton. This false distinction is that is specific to a linguistic founded on another ill-founded one between prlvate states of mtnd and munity. In this sense, the inner ~ ~ b l i c languages, ~ ~ h ~ i ~ works character of my pains or emoI...

There has been a lack of discussion concerning virtual reality as an expressive medium. It is essential to emphasise the aesthetic dimension of virtual reality in order to develop the medium as a powerful artistic mode of expression. This thesis examines how head-mounted display-based virtual reality can be used for artistic expression, focussing on the aesthetic pleasures of the medium. Pionee...