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Beauty Is Truth, Truth Beauty: Aesthetics and the Perception of Accuracy

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Mar 23

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” —John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1819) In recent decades, empirical studies… View Post The post Beauty Is Truth, Truth Beauty: Aesthetics and the Perception of Accuracy appeared first on Areo.

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” —John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1819) In recent decades, empirical studies… View Post The post Beauty Is Truth, Truth Beauty: Aesthetics and the Perception of Accuracy appeared first on Areo.

Askēsis in Art and Aesthetics

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 21 Jan 20

I noted earlier that Platonic askēsis, as seen in the beholding of the vision of beauty described in the Symposium, is a kind of aesthetic askēsis, which is also capable of transfiguring the self in unique ways. This kind of askēsis figures strongly in the work of Gabriel Trop. Trop positions art as a way of life, as an askēsis “that continually modifies, often imperceptibly, the manifold patterns of being — whether they are perceptual, behavioral, or affective of the person who undertakes it.”[1] Art and aesthetics for Trop exist in a dual sense, both in the mode of existing art objects …

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I noted earlier that Platonic askēsis, as seen in the beholding of the vision of beauty described in the Symposium, is a kind of aesthetic askēsis, which is also capable of transfiguring the self in unique ways. This kind of askēsis figures strongly in the work of Gabriel Trop. Trop positions art as a way of life, as an askēsis …

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