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    Prediction and Art Appreciation.Ancuta Mortu - 2024 - Review of Philosophy and Psychology 15 (4):1331-1347.
    Every art encounter requires making predictions given that art is rife with uncertainty. What is it to appreciate art while relying on predictions, and to what consequences? I argue that art appreciation involves engaging our predictive systems in such a way as to correct predictive failure at least at some levels in the processing hierarchy of information that we receive from art works. That art appreciation involves predictive processing best explains the mechanism for cognizing art works in categories, cases of (...)
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    The Aesthetic Mediation of Cultural Memory: Two Case Studies from Papua New Guinea and Kimberley, Australia.Ancuta Mortu - forthcoming - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
    I offer an analysis of the role of aesthetic value in the formation of cultural memory. More specifically, I examine how cultural memory is formed through cultural artifacts that embody a connection to the past via aesthetic means. My approach is motivated by artifacts from small-scale preindustrial societies, which make it apparent that aesthetic values, rather than being pursued for their own sake alone, enhance other functions, such as maintaining cultural identity and bringing the past into the present. I focus (...)
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  3. Remote Art and Aesthetics: An Introduction.Ancuta Mortu, Jakub Stejskal & Mark Windsor - 2024 - British Journal of Aesthetics 64 (3).
    This introduction to the special issue of the British Journal of Aesthetics, ‘Remote Art: Engaging with Art from Distant Times and Cultures’, presents the notion of art’s remoteness in the context of debates about inter-cultural diversity. It discusses the various aspects of remoteness, how it figures in the individual contributions to the issue, and suggests possible avenues for future scholarship.
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    Jean-Marie Schaeffer : l’esthétique entre art, cognition et anthropologie.Ancuta Mortu - 2024 - Nouvelle Revue d'Esthétique 2:193-202.
    L’esthétique peut subir des transformations conceptuelles significatives lorsqu’elle est aux prises avec des formes d’art marquées du sceau de la différence culturelle. J’examine ces transformations à partir d’une étude de l’esthétique de Jean-Marie Schaeffer, notamment son rapport avec la philosophie de l’art, son évolution à la lumière des développements récents en sciences cognitives, et son interaction avec l’anthropologie de l’art. Je soutiens que le travail conceptuel de Schaeffer nous permet de comprendre comment on active esthétiquement des formes d’art provenant des (...)
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    Degrees of Attention in Experiencing Art.Ancuta Mortu - 2020 - Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 55 (1):45.
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    European Thinking and the Study of World Art from a Natural Perspective.Ancuta Mortu - 2018 - Espes 7 (2):43-50.
    My aim in this paper is to address some difficulties related to the development of an emerging research program called world art studies. While it originates as a European discipline in the German scholarly tradition around 1900, this program comes to the fore only recently, with recent advances in natural and cognitive sciences which hold promise for providing more inclusive categories that could serve the study of art as a worldwide phenomenon. I focus more specifically on the strengths and weaknesses (...)
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    Évolution et création artistique : de l’art évolutionniste.Ancuta Mortu - 2018 - Nouvelle Revue D’Esthétique 1 (1):143-155.
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