Download or read book Perspectives on Contemporary Aesthetics written by Arnold Berleant and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology features essays originally published in Contemporary Aesthetics, an online peer-reviewed academic journal, selected from the first eleven volumes (2003-2013). Comprised of three parts, "Issues in Contemporary Art Theory," "Arts without Borders," and "Aesthetics without Borders," the seventeen essays cover a variety of topics on aesthetics written by authors from diverse disciplines and geographical locations. Published by the Rhode Island School of Design, this book also showcases an innovative and creative design on the theme of QR code. The design highlights a rather unusual mode of going from an electronic publication to a physical book, as well as the literal QR code embedded in each article that can be used to pull up the original online format. Straddling two modes of reading encourages the reader to explore the aesthetics and experiences of reading facilitated by different media.