Here’s a YouTuber’s take: The argument is that beautiful and sublime are central to art. They could almost be called the yin and yang of aesthetics, but they’re not entirely opposite to each other. Delight and Awe are not mutually exclusive. One could make an argument, however, that Low Art seeks delight (beautiful), while High Art,… Read More The Beautiful and the Sublime
I was inspired by my earlier post to think about aesthetics – the philosophy of art, beauty, etc. And I did a brief perusal of the related article on the topic on Infogalactic and discovered something: In ancient and medieval world, specific things were called out as being beautiful: order, form, harmony, unity, etc. This was… Read More On Aesthetics
Since I mentioned it the other day, you can pick up a copy of Burke’s A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful on Kindle for 99 cents. It looks, based on the sample, to be properly formatted, too. Additionally, the micro-press whose podcast I’ve been following, Dead Rabbit… Read More Some Books to Check Out
All aesthetic positions are going to offend someone, because concepts of the beautiful are perpetually wrapped up in concepts of the true, and that makes sense in poets’ vomitings but not as an ontological baseline. Whether the beautiful and the true are connected in some way doesn’t really help us to define the beautiful. The… Read More Originality is not Art.
Every no gets you closer to yes. This is part of the process of shifting through to find the best match. If your work is good, it will find a market. These are things authors have learned to tell themselves. Not because they are true, but because they are hopeful, and hope is a necessity… Read More Rejection is Progress
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