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  1. Friday essay: in defence of beauty in art

    Friday essay: in defence of beauty in art. Detail from Emily Kam Kngwarray, Anmatyerr people. Yam awely 1995. synthetic polymer paint on canvas 150 x 491 cm National Gallery of Australia, Canberra ...

  2. What is Art? and/or What is Beauty?

    Beauty is rather a measure of affect, a measure of emotion. In the context of art, beauty is the gauge of successful communication between participants - the conveyance of a concept between the artist and the perceiver. Beautiful art is successful in portraying the artist's most profound intended emotions, the desired concepts, whether they ...

  3. Beauty

    The nature of beauty is one of the most enduring and controversial themes in Western philosophy, and is—with the nature of art—one of the two fundamental issues in the history of philosophical aesthetics. Beauty has traditionally been counted among the ultimate values, with goodness, truth, and justice. It is a primary theme among ancient ...

  4. Arts, Beauty and Religion

    Art has played a significant role in various civilizations as an expression of human creativity. Two interlinked themes have surfaced in the artistic sphere: Art's correlation with beauty and its association with religion. These subjects provoke deep reflection and offer exceptional insights into our existence. This essay aims to analyze these topics by drawing comparisons […]

  5. Beauty: New Essays in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art on JSTOR

    The present volume aims to explore the nature of beauty and to shed light on its place in contemporary philosophy and art practice. The changing views on beauty become particularly evident when we consider how the debate has evolved in recent decades. In the eighteenth and nineteenth century, beauty was widely regarded as the main value of ...

  6. Susan Sontag on Beauty vs. Interestingness

    The essay was in part inspired by Pope John Paul II's response to the news of countless cover-ups of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church: He summoned the American cardinals to the Vatican and attempted to rationalize the situation by stating that "a great work of art may be blemished, but its beauty remains; and this is a truth which any ...

  7. What Artistry Can Do: Essays on Art and Beauty

    Abstract. This book collects theoretical essays written between 1996 and 2017 on art and aesthetics. The first section deals with critical art and artistic criticism, and cognitive aspects of art-making. The second section addresses specific topics related to the agency of art, such as laughter, mockery and artistic freedom; the special ...

  8. Beauty

    Summary: "Beauty" is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson that explores the concept of beauty and its relationship to the human spirit. Emerson argues that beauty is not simply a matter of aesthetics or sensory pleasure, but rather a spiritual quality that reflects the harmony and balance of the universe. He suggests that the experience of beauty ...

  9. Plato's Aesthetics

    If aesthetics is the philosophical inquiry into beauty, or another aesthetic value, and art, then the striking feature of Plato's dialogues is that he devotes as much time as he does to both topics and yet treats them oppositely. Art, mostly as represented by poetry, is closer to a greatest danger than any other phenomenon Plato speaks of.

  10. Beauty, Value, and the Aesthetics of Life in Kant and Aristotle

    But his answer has nothing to do with art, aesthetics, or beauty in their conventional senses. Looking at the earlier end of the tradition, we find that Aristotle makes similar claims. ... "The Modern System of the Arts," in Renaissance Thought and the Arts: Collected Essays, exp. ed. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990), 163 ...

  11. What Artistry Can Do: Essays on Art and Beauty on JSTOR

    What Art Can Do (Malpertuis by Jean Ray) Download. XML. On the Pleasure of Finding What Is Hidden (With Hidden Noise by Marcel Duchamp) Download. XML. Memoria:: Memory Work and the 'Conversation of Mankind'. Download. XML.

  12. An argument about beauty

    8. Beauty is part of the history of idealizing, which is itself part of the history of consolation. But beauty may not always console. The beauty of face and figure torments, subjugates; that beauty is imperious. The beauty that is human, and the beauty that is made (art) - both raise the fantasy of possession.

  13. Hegel's Aesthetics

    Hegel's philosophy of art is a wide ranging account of beauty in art, the historical development of art, and the individual arts of architecture, sculpture, painting, music and poetry. ... "A Re-examination of the 'Death of Art' Interpretation of Hegel's Aesthetics," in Selected Essays on G.W.F. Hegel, ed. L.S. Stepelevich, Atlantic ...

  14. 1.1: What is beauty?

    Beauty is something we perceive and respond to. It may be a response of awe and amazement, wonder and joy, or something else. It might resemble a "peak experience" or an epiphany. It might happen while watching a sunset or taking in the view from a mountaintop, for example. This is a kind of experience, an aesthetic response that is a ...

  15. Critical?Art

    The many, heterogeneous artistic forms of this 'dark' radical refusal are well known: abstraction, the black square, a new iconoclasm and the debunking of representation, the 'concept' as an artistic principle, 'less is more', Duchamp's Fountain-strategy and the refusal to 'make' something or continue adding 'art' to this world, institutional critique, the cult of ...

  16. The Importance Of Beauty In Art

    The Importance Of Beauty In Art. 702 Words3 Pages. For centuries, beauty was seen as a virtue in the arts. From the height of Greek art to the Renaissance to Victorian times, beauty was viewed as an eternal, transcendent quality that was highly valued in art. It was something that allowed the audience to transcend the real world into the ideal one.

  17. What Makes an Artwork Beautiful?

    One may argue that, in light of the ancient Chinese tradition, what makes an artwork beautiful is its exhibition of a certain decorative pattern—if one ignores the possible chicken-and-egg dilemma. In Ernst Grosse's The Beginning of Art (2014), it is argued that early decorative art comes from the patterns of natural things.

  18. Emerson on 'Beauty'

    Summary of the essay Beauty by Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Beauty" is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson that was first published in 1844. In this work, Emerson reflects on the nature of beauty and its importance in human life. ... they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is Art. The production of a work of art throws a light upon the ...

  19. André Aciman: Why Beauty Is So Important to Us

    Constance Wu. André Aciman. Humans have engaged with the concept of beauty for millennia, trying to define it while being defined by it. Plato thought that merely contemplating beauty caused ...

  20. Concepts of Beauty in Art

    Beauty here lies in the release from holding back appreciation, awe and complete shock. Violence does not stand-alone and nor does any other human emotion. Sex, 2003 is thus desire, decay, diabolical, deliberate, freedom or defeat. Purity is not that far fromits pornographic mockery of it and they are interrelated in their apparent verisimilitude.

  21. Art Essays

    Three rules on art. First: the very idea of rules in the fine arts changes and becomes transfigured through the impact of beauty on the activity of art. So the rules must be continually reborn, and the artist is forever exploring the unknown. Second: the work to be made is unique, and an end in itself.

  22. Brain, Beauty, and Art: Essays Bringing Neuroaesthetics into Focus

    Together, these essays establish the territory and current boundaries of neuroaesthetics and identify its most promising future directions. Topics include models of neuroaesthetics and discussions of beauty, art, dance, music, literature, and architecture.

  23. The Beauty Of Art Essay

    The Beauty Of Art Essay. 833 Words4 Pages. The Beauty of Art. Although we may not always notice, there is art in everything we see. For instance, take a look outside. The automobiles we drive, the infrastructure we live and work in, and the landscaping around us have all been designed, piece by piece by someone to be pleasing to the eye.