"Somehow – whether it be in color, or in a harmonious garden, or in a room whose light and mood are just right, or in the awesome wall of a great building which allows us to walk near it – some placid, piercing unity occurs, sharp and soft, embracing, tying all things together, wrapping us up in it, allowing us to feel our own unity. What, physically, is this unity which seems to speak to us of I?" - Christopher Alexander, The Luminous Ground.
4/7 Aesthetic objects, transfiguration and beauty
• Arthur Danto, Transfiguration of the Commonplace, Chapter 4
• Excerpts from David Hume’s “Of the Standard of Taste” (1757)
4/9 Modernist concepts of beauty and design
• Handout on Modernist concepts of beauty
• Marcel Duchamp, "Apropos of 'Readymades'"
4/14 Design flaws of hydrocarbon society
• The End of Suburbia, film screening
• CT Peak Oil Caucus Report, Nov. 2007.
4/16 Aesthetics of wind farms
• Justin Good, “The Aesthetics of Wind Farms"
4/21 Theory of Beauty as a Structure of Unfolding Wholeness
• Handout on Christopher Alexander’s theory of architecture
25) 4/23 Beauty as wholeness continued.
26) 4/28 Metaphysics of Beauty as Manifestation of a Universal Self: The Holonic theory of art
• Ken Wilber, The Eye of Spirit, “Integral Art and Literary Theory”
27) 4/30 Wholeness project due
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