Tag: "aesthetics"

What is Art? and/or What is Beauty?

The following answers to this artful question each win a random book.
[Issue 108: June/July 2015: Question of the Month]

The Afterlives of Modernism

Siobhan Lyons argues that modernist artistic values of sincere self-expression are culturally reasserting themselves.
[Issue 108: June/July 2015: The Art Issue]

The Moral Countenance of Art

Emrys Westacott asks if we can really tell what it is that films and other art are either condemning or condoning.
[Issue 105: November/December 2014: Films]

Reflections on the Death of Celluloid

Thomas Wartenberg looks at philosophy literally on film.
[Issue 104: September/October 2014: Films]

War Horse

Colin Brookes gains ethical understanding from a profound aesthetic experience.
[Issue 103: July/August 2014: Theatre]

The Shawshank Redemption

Alexander Hooke finds hell & existentialist hope in prison.
[Issue 102: May/June 2014: Films]

On Happiness

Siobhan Lyons argues that contemporary culture’s obsession with happiness is unhealthy in a variety of ways.
[Issue 100: January/February 2014: Articles]

Bill Stott’s Cartoon

by Bill Stott
[Issue 97: July/August 2013: Cartoon]

The Ontology of Photography: From Analogue To Digital

Peter Benson on why digital photos aren’t reliable records of anything.
[Issue 95: March/April 2013: Appearance and Reality]

Democracy & Tragedy

Mark Chou argues that the performance of tragedies helped establish democracy.
[Issue 94: January/February 2013: Reading, Writing, Thinking]