Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 12:51:47 -0400
From: Barry Smylie <barrysmylie-AT-iname.com>
Subject: Re: Aesthetics?


> 'ello.
>
> Being lazy and feeling nauseous when seeing even the name altavista
> mentioned led me to a horrifying situation, I can't find any sites on
> aesthetics. I've been reading Richard Shusterman's "Art, life and
> aesthetics" (translated from the Finnish title, don't know the original
> one) for the University of Helsinki entrance exams, and found it extremely
> boring book. He has weird opinions on weird matters and I've been wondering
> if there would be any "complete" report on the whole field of aesthetics.
> Somehow that sounds stupid even for me. Well, brief descriptions would be
> better than nothing, I guess.

Aesthetics is important idea in the studio being the core survival trait of
visual art.  In still art "value" is probably aesthetic.

It would be interesting to witness what becomes of the modernist oddities and
humerous works of the iconoclastic Dada stream looses it's fashionable and
intellectual meanings and only the objects remain.

Beauty is in the eye of the great, great grandchildren of the beholder - or
something like that.

What about... Aesthetic vs. Fashion
Or... Evolution of Timeless Beauty

http://members.tripod.com/barrysmylie/towncountry/01title.htm






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