Beauty: In the eye of the beholder or is there something more to it? This unit invites high school students to explore the meaning of “beauty.” Source Materials: Plato’s Symposium (available in many editions) Crispin Sartwell’s Six Names of Beauty (Routledge, 2004) Puzzles About Art-an Aesthetics Casebook, by Battin, Fisher, Moore, and Silvers (Bedford/St. Martin’s, … Thinking About Beauty
This is a photo of leaves on rocks. One can look at the content, nature, or the photographic composition, its artifice. The leaves and the rocks: the veins run through the dominant maple leaf, staining it deep green and betraying both its strength and fragility; the rocks offer a range of textures, shapes, and commentary … Aesthetics is for the Birds
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