On Mar 4, 2010, at 8:22 PM, William Conger wrote: > I'm becoming more interested these days in a broad range of culture issues, the intersection of myth and reality: The American sense of virtue vs free market materialism, and how these affect the arts and the identity of the artist. I'm less interested in the formal approach to art and aesthetics. Whether the search is for the universal attribute of the aesthetic or the universal attribute of the aesthetic experience is to me the same vain quest. I think the identity of the aesthetic is largely a matter both more simple and more complex. More simple because it does not exist independently either objectively or subjectively; more complex because it is a dynamic product of many configurations of societal/historical/ forces that subsume individual experience and formal analysis. I'd call it the social history of aesthetics.
!Hola! You're still here. Great. This topic sounds quite interesting, so I encourage you to start the ball rolling. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Michael Brady
