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Beauty: How to Make It Safe for the 21st Century, Dominic McIver Lopes 6:00 pm
Beauty: How to Make It Safe for the 21st Century, Dominic McIver Lopes @ Lang Recital Hall, 4th flr., Hunter College
Sep 27 @ 6:00 pm
Critiques of beauty in art and in everyday life assume the traditional idea that aesthetic value is a kind of power to please. An entirely new picture comes from a close look at intricately structured networks of agents who interact with each other in aesthetic enterprises. Aesthetic values give us reasons to act in the context of social practices. The “network theory” explains why, despite the critiques, beauty never disappeared from art, why it’s as[...]
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