CCDN 231 2011 Lecture 9

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BEAUTY+ the BEAST


BEAUTY+ UGLINESS


symmetry + proportion + harmony




middle ages


ravenna




renaissance






Aesthetics is the philosophy that deals with the nature of beauty, art ‌ Baumgarten 1735 first known or thought to coin the term aesthetics derived from the Greek translation of it meaning - to perceive-feel-sense

Baumgarten’s original meaning was The Theory of Sensuous Knowledge as a counter to logic or The Theory of Intellectual Knowledge.


the beautiful + the sublime pain+pleasure

Edmond Burke’s (1729 – 1797) Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful was published in 1757.


Immanuel Kant 1724 - 1804

Kant, beauty is objective and universal; thus certain things are beautiful to everyone


beauty things that are smooth, unthreatening and pleasurable

sublime divine

things that are huge, obscure or terrible, arouse feelings that invigorate or elevate the mind.

burke, e (1757) A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful.




lee freidlander


lee freidlander


welsh oak rodney graham 1998






robert irwin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YajsEebw89g



naomi filmer


naomi filmer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7M-7k2vJjI




Victoria Evans


jennifer culpri




Richard Clarkson


Call Me, Choke Me Gunnar Green MOMA


caroline broadhead


hope norton



Ben Dudson


Kahlivia Russell


Simon Caldwell


drawing restraint. matthew barney http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83WTxmkye04


matthew barney drawing restraint http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_qDSdNPo8g&feature=related


AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE

fulfills our need for a sense of meaningfulness and wholeness. It is continuous with ordinary experience.


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