Posts Tagged ‘aesthetics’
The Art Instinct – book review
Denis Dutton got tired, as most of us do, of trying to find justifications for the arts. So he started looking for an explanation so basic that if enough people knew about it, none of us would ever again question the need for art. All that explaining and educating and begging could just stop. In The Art Instinct Dutton argues that art is a [...]
Plus ça change…
Left: The Hohle Fels Venus, a 35,000-year-old ivory carving found in a German cave by archaeologists in 2008, announced in May 2009, predates the Venus of Willendorf (discoverd in 1908) and other similar "Venus" prehistoric figurines by 5000 years. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090514084126.htmMarcel Duchamp's Fountain (1913), [...]
