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Would Edmund Burke Have Approved of Artists Blending the Sublime and the Beautiful?
For Edmund Burke (1729-1797), in his A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757), our strongest emotions are associated with danger, pain, and fear (most particularly the fear of death, the “king of … Continue reading
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Tagged aesthetics, art, beauty, close reading, edmund burke, literature, philosophy, the sublime, writing
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Beauty That Is Also Repellent
Israeli artist Ori Gersht (b. 1967) says that one of the things he tends to aim for in his art is the foregrounding of beauty against a background of violence. In the video piece below, he sets up a traditional still … Continue reading
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Tagged Apollo, art, beauty, Dionysus, Kant, literature, philosophy, the sublime, violence
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To Boldly Go Where No Person Has Gone Before (from Your Computer)
Recently, an astronomer, using 3000 detailed photographs, reconstructed a panoramic meta-image of the Milky Way. You can now zoom upon and navigate the Milky Way in a fashion akin to using Google Earth. See the Milky Way meta-image here.
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Tagged astonomy, beauty, life, milky way, science, stars, the ontological mystery, the sublime
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Ah, Gray Sunflower, Forget Me Not! The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Moscow UFO Mothership/Cloud
When looking at the above video today, I thought of Allen Ginsberg’s “Sunflower Sutra” (in which Ginsberg eulogizes a soot covered dead sunflower). And it made me think: what makes this UFO-like cloud (seen last Wednesday over Moscow) beguiling? And … Continue reading
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