God is Beautiful: The Aesthetic Experience of the Quranby navid kermaniwiley, 400 pages, $45According to the Islamic doctrine of iʿjāz, the Qur’an is an inimitable book, a miracle. Western scholars, pointing out grammatical errors and other infelicities in the text, have long criticized this . . . . Continue Reading »
A woman lovingly plucks a dead pheasant. A man places a human arm on a cutting board with care, readying his chef’s knife. A woman sinks into a bathtub, seemingly dropping into an abyss. A corpse is lifted on high, framed by wings made of broken glass.All these images (horrific, gorgeous, . . . . Continue Reading »
The Modern System of Art began to crumble almost as soon as it was set up. Continue Reading »
American environmentalism, and environmental art, has a Presbyterian pedigree. Continue Reading »
Kant attempted to sketch a realm of pure aesthetics, and opened the possibility of the aesetheticization of knowledge itself. Continue Reading »
A symposium proposes a synaesthetic approach to antiquity. Continue Reading »
Historically, “aesthetics” has had an accidental relationship to art. Aesthetics, from aesthesis, referred to perception through senses. In this sense, an “aesthetic” theory of art is a theory with a particular focus on the sensory experience of art.If we put aside the . . . . Continue Reading »
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