Friday, May 24, 2013
About Mars Hill Audio
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| Sculptor and professor Ted Prescott discusses why many artists and critics in the twentieth century think that art and beauty are not complementary. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, says Prescott, art assumed responsibility for cultural redemption, and the rules for measuring beauty became nearly mathematical. These classifications, along with the enervation of Christianity's presence in culture, eventually encouraged the growth of the idea that art should be meaningful or socially useful rather than beautiful. Prescott explains how the (relatively) more recent understanding of art makes it difficult for students to discern or appreciate beauty. He notes that discipline, solitude, and time are essential for cultivating the ability to apprehend it. | |
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| Ted Prescott has contributed to multiple editions of the Journal; click here for his record. | Beauty Enlightenment Art, Visual |