Eighteenth International Conference on the Arts in Society

Abstract

This research examines how new aesthetics as a means of sharing cultural values appeared in the Ancient, Medieval, Modern Capitalist and Marxist communist eras in Western and Eastern cultures. Three aesthetic approaches – aesthetic concepts, state of mind, and aesthetic object – are used to examine evidence of new aesthetic experiences through architecture, visual arts, and literature with the support of philosophies to argue that new aesthetics are as integral to the organic completion of the human condition in societies as changes in idealism. The Odyssey epic by Homer presents evidence of the aesthetics for the ancient period. In the Medieval period the Gothic and Hindu architecture show the two religious contexts, created new aesthetic influences. The art of the Tang Dynasty in China, the Tale of Genji in Japan complement the philosophical discussion about how the new aesthetics in the East arose. The Hadji Murat, a work of literature work by Leo Tolstoy, presents new aesthetic heroism contexts. In the modern period, artwork by Edwards Munch and Pablo Picasso represent an individual’s right to free speech and feature capitalist contexts, while artworks by Russian Soviet and Chinese artists, Kliment Redko, and Luo Zhongli represent Marxist aesthetics.