Artist Chasing Eudaemonia, ACE
Even the song of birds, which we can bring under no musical rule,seems to have more freedom, and therefore more for taste,than a song of a human being. — Immanuel Kant A very tough slough of research, over very familiar territory, on Kant’s Beauty and the Sublime, and examination of his means of Taste and …
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In the mid-20th century these three forces––Kant’s philosophy, abstract expressionists, and the CIA––congealed ostensibly to champion freedom and originality, instead accomplished an undermining of art and consequently humanity. The connections and machinations are so complicated and obtuse it is hard to take them seriously, but it does make a difference in understanding them, at least in the sense of whether or not our culture evolves.
Kant’s idea of the sublime is that it overwhelms our imagination, one example is the mathematical sublime in which the magnitude is too much for us to comprehend, like unlimited stars in the Universe. It can be argued that postmodern artist Christo’s Umbrellas fit the definition.
In one of the most important aesthetic books, Kant separates the sublime from the senses and art. This is the first in Newberry’s series on Kant, which will cover far-reaching implications.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Rinaldo Enchanted by Armida, 1742 until 1745. Was this the kind of work Kant associated with charms and sensual delights of beauty? Originally published online at The Atlas Society. Making Sense of Kant’s Senseless Sublime In the last decade of the 18th century Beethoven composed his 1st and 2nd piano concertos, Goya …
The Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant, translated by James Creed Meredith Every affection of the STRENUOUS TYPE (such, that is, as excites the consciousness of our power of overcoming every resistance [animus strenuus]) is aesthetically sublime, e.g., anger, even desperation (the rage of forlorn hope but not faint-hearted despair). [Emphasis in the …
Yikes! A whole new book on the way. “Art and Aesthetics: A Personal View of Postmodernism, Eudaemonia, and Realization.”The reader will gain fundamental insights into the cultural war between postmodernism and evolutionary figurative art. They will learn about how the latter masters perception, thought, and passion in art. And how postmodernism works in the opposite, …
Yesterday the good people at the Ayn Rand Fan Club invited me to talk about art, living abroad, aesthetics, and Rand Scott Schiff and William Swig, smart guys, discuss with me art, Rand, and PsyOp. You will come away with deeper understanding of: How the windy atmosphere of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, would have been a key perceptual …
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This interview was conducted by Susan McCloskey, was an Assistant Professor of English at Vassar College, has published essays on Marlowe, Shakespeare, Webster, and Congreve. Reprinted from Navigator, Volume 2, Number 12, 1999. Michael Newberry has exhibited his paintings in major galleries in the United States and Europe. He was recently the subject of CNN’s “The …
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