Search for Beauty 2011

One question that's been running through my head while taking Search for Beauty is does beauty translate across cultures? Does culture a...

Most people don't use the term sublime the way that it was originally intended, or when they do it's usually on accident. The term i...

The dichotomy between the Apollonian and the Dionysian is everywhere around us. Simply look at the leaf of a tree and you are part of this b...

Schopenhauer wrote that art was the only true escape Man has from the grasp of Will, our basal drive for survival. Out of the all the arts, ...

Plato's theory on art is based on the idea that art is an imitation of real life, which itself is an imitation of the Forms. Back when h...

I recently watched a great video online about overcoming apathy in today’s society. In the video the speaker discusses communication techni...

In another blog entry, I said I felt like my laptop is in some way a form of art because of the creative engineering that went into producin...