/r/aesthetics
Aesthetics — the philosophical study of beauty and taste. It is closely related to the philosophy of art, which is concerned with the nature of art and the concepts in terms of which individual works of art are interpreted and evaluated
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VISTAworld - Frutiger Dreams: Building Refracted Memories in a Posthuman Reality
08:54 UTC
I'm looking for essays on our current era of mass image proliferation and its effects on art
…anyone know any?
14:16 UTC
"What is Art?" by Leo Tolstoy, on the value & moral status of art — An online reading group discussion on Thursday March 7, open to everyone
02:22 UTC
Looking for medieval aesthetics scholar
The name is Gill Sonne. I heard it in an interview so I don't know the spelling. It's a medieval thinker I believe.
Help please.
17:47 UTC
Hypothesis about the central crisis in the arts at the present
The overwhelming presence of media, narrative, and artifice in everyday life, and the transfer of so much activity into the virtual realm, has robbed the arts (literature, painting, film, etc.) of a central function, which is to be what Arnold called "a criticism of life."
Arnold's claim assumes a distinction between the imagined fiction of the arts and the truth of real life. But if life becomes increasingly dominated by virtuality, if more social economic activity shifts moves online, real life will be increasingly mediated by, and occuring in the domain of, the artificial.
People are going to be sick of art, the arts, artists, anything artistic.
21:48 UTC
Similarities in the philosophy of Kant and Plato.
Dear Readers,
I read a bit about the aesthetic theory of both Plato and Kant and saw some similarity. I want to make sure others also understand this similarity or see if im misunderstanding it somewhere.
Plato is talking about our perceived world as the world of shadows. There is another world, with the perfect versions of the shadows we perceive in this world. So Plato is saying a tree in this world is merely an imperfect shadow of the ideal tree in another world we can't perceive being the ideal world. That is what Plato is saying right?
Then you have Kant who is speaking of the noumenal and fenomenal world. The fenomenal world being the world around us, the world of fenomenoms and the noumenal world, the world behind our perceived version of the fenomenoms around us. If im understanding correctly Kant is saying due to oure perceiving processes we can never see a thing around us truly for what it is, we will never be able to see a thing for how it really is in the noumenal world.
So whereas Plato thinks of things around us being shadows of perfect ideas, Kant is also saying the things around us are not how the things really are but just how we perceive them. Isn't there an overlap in thinking? Just in the matter of fact that they both think the world around us and how we perceive it is not the world how it really is, it is not the 'true' world.
Is this a small overlap or am I fully wrong?
p.s. sorry for any language mistakes, english is not my first language.
Cheers.
09:39 UTC
Friedrich Schiller's Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795) — An online discussion group on Wednesday December 20 & 27, open to everyone
19:10 UTC
What do you think about porn?
From an aesthetics perspective, what are your thoughts on pornography?
19:56 UTC
Clement Greenberg on pop art
04:47 UTC
Books about the self-destructive goal of art
If my reading of Kants aesthetics is correct he thinks that, in a dialectical way, the fine arts is always moving toward destruction and it's this negation that makes it worthwhile. Are there any writers during the 1900s who expand upon this?
19:57 UTC
The Thing American Pop Does
22:08 UTC
Art and Religion
Wondering if anyone could direct me to any works (articles, books, general theories, anything) relating to art as a religion. I can only find discussion on religious art, but my research is in the area of art being a religion/religion-adjacent in itself.
Thank you!
16:52 UTC
race, taste, & instagram face in neoclassical sculpture
a video connecting the racially ambiguous aesthetics of "Instagram face" to 19th century arguments around white marble sculpture. It focuses on how sculpture and skull measurements contributed to 19th century race science, today's beauty standards, and the online obsession with "cucking".
18:14 UTC
Immanuel Kant: Critique of the Power of Judgment (1790) — An online discussion group starting September 27, meetings every Wednesday, open to everyone
01:47 UTC
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04:15 UTC
What are some good books on the philosophy of architecture?
Hey y'all! I'm a student who's going into studying (urban) anthropology and that has – by extension – gotten me really curious in the aesthetic philosophy of architecture. So yeah! I'm mainly interested in the architectural philosophy of the 20th century (brutalism, deconstructivism, the International Style, etc.), though I'm not that picky! Thanks in advance ❤️
16:35 UTC