The construction of Taiwanese aesthetics through arts and humanities textbooks
Wu, Hong-An
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Title
The construction of Taiwanese aesthetics through arts and humanities textbooks
Author(s)
Wu, Hong-An
Issue Date
2013-05-24T21:51:30Z
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Parsons, Michael J.
Department of Study
Art & Design
Discipline
Art Education
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
M.A.
Degree Level
Thesis
Keyword(s)
Taiwanese aesthetics
Arts and Humanities textbooks
art education
textbooks
content analysis
Taiwan
Abstract
This study examines the dominant view of aesthetics in Taiwan as it is presented in the state approved Art and Humanities Textbooks. By looking at how the artworks and artists are framed, where these artworks and artists are from, and which traditions influence the construction of art, I want to find the elements constructing Taiwanese identity presented by these Taiwanese textbooks. Taiwanese aesthetics is understood here as the specific style or appearances of any aural or visual form associated with the construction of an ideology of what is beautiful, worthwhile and artistic within Taiwan’s context. In the end, I conclude that the essential quality of Taiwanese aesthetics is hybridity and that Taiwanese aesthetics is not static. Instead, it is the ongoing construction and re-appropriation of values concerning arts from various discipline discourse and cultural traditions. Its fluid and changing quality makes it impossible to define Taiwanese aesthetics; it can only be constructed through living and doing by individuals.
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