How can we kill creativity? The English say that there’s more than one ways to skin a cat, but let’s think about this a bit. How can we kill creativity? … Continue reading Art And Creation (Part 10): Can We Kill Creativity?
Tag: aesthetics
Ancient Art & 19th Century Aesthetics
Over the course of the past couple of months, I wrote a series of articles on three different but interrelated themes: a. the myth of Laocoon, the Trojan priest whose … Continue reading Ancient Art & 19th Century Aesthetics
Art And Creation (Part 9): 3 Steps To Reach The End Of Art
This is part of a blog series where I share some thoughts on “art and creation”. I have prepared various blogs inspired by a range of sources from Kabbalah to … Continue reading Art And Creation (Part 9): 3 Steps To Reach The End Of Art
Art And Creation (Part 8): The Quality Of An Aesthetic Experience In Time
This is part of a blog series where I share some thoughts on “art and creation”. I have prepared various blogs inspired by a range of sources from Kabbalah to … Continue reading Art And Creation (Part 8): The Quality Of An Aesthetic Experience In Time
Art and Creation (Part 7): The Duration Of Art
This is part 7 of a blog series where I share some thoughts on “art and creation”. I have prepared various blogs inspired by a range of sources from Kabbalah … Continue reading Art and Creation (Part 7): The Duration Of Art
Art As A Revelation
An excerpt from my recent article on John Dewey’s aesthetic theory for TheCollector
Dewey on the Isolation of Art from Society
In the first part of his book Art as Experience, John Dewey explores the break between art and daily life.
My work on Tolstoy’s ‘What is Art’
I recently wrote a blog series on Leo Tolstoy’s essay “What is Art”. The blogs mainly dealt with Tolstoy’s critique of his contemporary art and the art of the upper-classes. … Continue reading My work on Tolstoy’s ‘What is Art’
Apollonian and Dionysian Art
In the Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche came up with the two opposing art concepts of the Apollonian and the Dionysian.
Leo Tolstoy and Upper-Class Art (part 3)
Tolstoy finds that the upper-classes, the art critics and most professional artists lack the ability of being “infected” by emotions through art. This happens because they have accustomed themselves to … Continue reading Leo Tolstoy and Upper-Class Art (part 3)
Leo Tolstoy and Upper-Class Art (part 2)
According to Tolstoy, art in the West used to be attached to religion and was universally understood since it expressed the relationship between human and god which is supposedly the … Continue reading Leo Tolstoy and Upper-Class Art (part 2)
Leo Tolstoy and Art for Art’s Shake
Art for art’s sake? This is one of the questions that have been puzzling the modern world for a few centuries now. The answer cannot be untangled from the commercialisation … Continue reading Leo Tolstoy and Art for Art’s Shake
Nietzsche’s poem on Heraclitus
Nietzsche wrote a poem that has been interpreted as a dialogue with Heraclitus and his everlasting flame
Plotinus, Neoplatonism and Beauty
Plotinus (ca 205-270 CE) was the founder of Neoplatonism, a school of philosophy inspired by Plato’s ideas some 600 years after the philosopher’s death. Plotinus was born in the Lycopolis … Continue reading Plotinus, Neoplatonism and Beauty
Imitation in Art as a Dead-end: The reason Hegel would not Appreciate Zeuxis
*cover photo: Ancient Rome, 1957, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Metropolitan Museum of Art. It should come across as paradoxical to even suggest that there are dead-ends in art. Artistic expression cannot … Continue reading Imitation in Art as a Dead-end: The reason Hegel would not Appreciate Zeuxis
The End of Art in Hegel’s Aesthetics
Reading Hegel’s ” Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art”, it is difficult to remain indifferent towards the concept of the “end of art”. As is expected, this concept has been the … Continue reading The End of Art in Hegel’s Aesthetics
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