This is an essay about the phenomenon of “aesthetic chills”—you know, the moment when, experiencing a work of art, you feel a rush of physical emotion, a shiver that runs down your spine. Often, it ...

You can listen to Laura D’Olimpio discuss the importance of aesthetic education with David Rutledge on The Philosopher’s Zone. Education in the arts and art theory is vital. Arts education must be ...

The elements of art provide a common language for exploring the aesthetics of visual art. The aesthetics of basketball deserve a similar set of tools. Put a Jasper Johns painting next to a Roy ...

Can you think of a work of art that truly thrilled you? Maybe you can—and if you can, maybe it even literally made you shiver, or sent a chill up your spine. This is the phenomena that is called ...

If art is to be relevant to the environment, it needs to move beyond an art context to engage with the land itself. Humans are consuming roughly a million plastic bottles every single minute, and an ...

Successor to: Aesthetics and problems of education. 1971. "Published with the assistance of the Getty Center for Education in the Arts." "An Illini book from the University of Illinois Press"--P. [4] ...

Art is often held up as the most “human” of human endeavors. For millennia, philosophers, historians, and archaeologists have used art and symbolic thinking as behavioral indices for what makes humans ...

The Fine Arts Department, although it is in many ways superior to others in the University, has neglected one of the important aspects of the subject. It has a tendency to teach art from a purely ...