Viktor Ernest Maşek

Victor Ernest Maşek (13 January 1937 - 20 September 2002) was an estetician, translator and Theatre critic. He was the son of Hedwiga (born Ekhardt) and Carol Maşek, economist. He graduated in 1965 the Faculty of Philosophy and became a Phd with the thesis Introduction to Information Aesthetics, published in 1972 under the title Art and Matematics. After 1989 he was director of the Theatre "Nottara" in Bucharest. Started with lyrics in 1959, the Literary Gazette [Gazeta literară].

See also

• Romania#Computer and computer-aided art

Works

Arta naivă, 1989, PDF.

• Mărturia artei [The Testimony of Art], Bucharest, 1972.
• Artă şi matematică. Introducere în estetica informaţională [Art and Mathematics. Introduction to Information Aesthetics], Bucharest: Editura Politică, 1972. The first Romanian text applying Max Bense's aesthetic theories to semiotics of visual art. The book is based on his PhD thesis, Introducere în estetica informaţională, 1971.
• Edited, Estetică, informaţie, programare [Aesthetics. Information. Programming], Bucharest: Editura Ştiinţifică, 1972, 216 pp. Anthology comprising important texts by A. Moles, M. Bense, H. Frank, S. Maser, K. Alsleben, but also Mihai Dinu, Cezar Radu, Stefan Niculescu, and others.
• Arta - o ipostază a libertăţii [Art - an Aspect of Freedom], Bucharest, 1977.
• Arta de a fi spectator. Contribuţii la estetica receptării, Bucharest, 1986.
• Arta naivă, Bucharest: Meridiane, 1989.
• Pariul cu teatrul: Idei la rampă, Bucharest, 1998.

Links

• http://www.crispedia.ro/Victor_Ernest_Masek
• http://www.romanian-philosophy.ro/ro/index.php?title=Victor_Ernest_Ma%C5%9Fek