Unism and Art

Unism can be differently related to the arts. Its first and foremost application would be to discern between art and other forms of human activity, and provide criteria for aesthetical judgement. However, there cannot be studying the arts without artistic experience, and, in this section, you will also find a few samples of art implementing and animating the general aesthetical principles of Unism.

General Aesthetics
  1. Introduction
  2. Aesthetic categories
  3. Special questions
  4. Miscellaneous remarks

Miscellaneous notes

Online Papers

A Hierarchical Theory of Aesthetic Perception: Musical Scales
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A Hierarchical Theory of Aesthetic Perception: Scales in the Visual Arts
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Hypertext version of two articles published in Leonardo, with a few misprints and over-editing removed.

Drawing and Music: The Universals of Aesthetic Perception
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A Russian version of the latter of the above articles, with more stress on the psychological background.

Zone Scales as a Universal Language of Design
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An online paper generalizing the above articles.

Direction scales as the graphic analogs of musical scales
[Russian, HTML]
The hierarchy of the musical rhythm
[Russian, HTML]
Reports at the conference Electronics. Music. Light. (Kazan, Russia, 1996)

Scale hierarchies and culture-historical universality
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A report at the International Symposium on Empirical Aesthetics (Taganrog, Russia, 1997)

Art as creative communication
[English, MS Word] [English, PDF] [Russian, MS Word] [Russian, PDF]
Discreteness, continuity and hierarchical scaling in the arts
[MS Word, ZIP, English] [PDF, English] [MS Word, ZIP, Russian] [PDF, Russian]
Hierarchical analysis of the structure of the perception of museum expositions
In English, abstract in Russian: [MS Word] [MS Word, ZIP] [PDF]
Reports at the International Symposium Interaction between Man and Culture: Information Standpoint (Taganrog, Russia, 1998)

Nonlinear art
[English, MS Word] [English, PDF] [Russian, MS Word] [Russian, PDF]
Report at the International Symposium Information paradigm in the humanitarian science (Taganrog, Russia, 2000)

Samples

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