Come join us to discuss art, beauty, meaning and culture at our next meeting, Wednesday, May 13th. We will again be meeting at the Starbucks on SR 70 near I-75, from 7:30 – 10:00 pm. This discussion will be facilitated by Bethany.
If you want to read a little on aesthetics before you come, check out wiki or skim the syllabus from the aesthetics course taught by Gideon Strauss.
If you are really ambitious. . .
This is the “recommended reading” on aesthetics from Prof. Strauss:
A Broken Beauty
by Theodore L. Prescott (Editor)
Active Sights: Art as Social Interaction
by Timothy Van Laar, Leonard Diepeveen
Aesthetics
by Susan L. Feagin, Patrick Maynard
Aesthetics: The Classic Readings
by David E. Cooper (Editor), Peter Lamarque (Editor), Crispin Sartwell (Editor)
Artistic Truth: Aesthetics, Discourse, and Imaginative Disclosure
by Lambert Zuidervaart
Enlightened Cherishing: An Essay on Aesthetic Education
by Harry S. Broudy
Everyday aesthetics
by Yuriko Saito
Eyewitness: Reports from an Art World in Crisis
by Jed Perl
Heidegger’s Philosophy of Art
by Julian Young
History of Beauty
by Umberto Eco
In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Art
by Linda Weintraub
Intruding upon the Timeless: Meditations on Art, Faith, and Mystery
by Gregory Wolfe
Objects of Grace: Conversations on Creativity and Faith
by James Romaine
On Beauty and Being Just
by Elaine Scarry
Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House: Writings 1973-1994
by Bill Viola (Editor), Robert Violette (Editor)
Relational Aesthetics
by Nicolas Bourriaud
Six Names of Beauty
by Crispin Sartwell
The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa
by Michael Kimmelman
The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting
by Galen A. Johnson, Michael B. Smith (Editor)
The Next Generation: Contemporary Expressions of Faith
by Patricia C. Pongracz, Wayne Roosa
The Poetics of Space
by Gaston Bachelard
The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays
by Hans-Georg Gadamer
The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness
by Virginia Postrel
Uncontrollable Beauty: Toward a New Aesthetics
by Bill Beckley (Editor), David Shapiro (Editor)
1 Comment
May 12, 2009 at 3:49 pm
new topic suggestion that may be interesting,
How has the 24/7 news cycle and constant pressure for delivering the fastest news affecting the quality of our news and how does that affect us?
This college student faked a quote on wiki to see how quickly it would spread and found many news sources quoted it without checking the unverified source.
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090512/ap_on_hi_te/eu_ireland_wikipedia_hoaxer
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