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Aesthetic perception and nature

Posted on June 29, 2017March 16, 2018 by John

Some strange facts of life have a strong meaning, for example that proportions in nature conform to certain mathematical principles, which in turn can be grasped by the human mind – i.e. in the human mind there is a receptive system of mathematical properties which lay at the heart of natural formation. Our mind is…

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Classical music and humanism

Posted on February 5, 2017November 23, 2018 by John

Classical music is often considered as an art form which embodies humanistic and ethic ideals, and is supposed to inspire moral awareness in its listeners. This aspirational vision of serious music is one of the results of the Enlightenment as it developed at the end of the 18th century, when in aesthetic theory ‘the artist’…

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Neuroscience and aural confusion

Posted on January 30, 2017February 5, 2017 by John

Some research in neuroscience appears to support the claim that confusion, resulting from listening to postwar avantgarde atonal works, is not due to lack of musical understanding and a conservative taste, but the logical result of works without structural patterns that relate to the mind’s hardwired, pattern-seeking abilities. But of course, acculturation plays a role,…

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Abstract convention

Posted on January 13, 2017August 15, 2017 by John

There is an increasing number of observations demonstrating something of the emerging of common sense about the established art history of the last century, as found in an article on the website of ‘The Smart Set’: Quote: 20th-century modernism marked the transition from a world of regional civilizational artistic traditions to the bright, shiny, new,…

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Permitting waste in the realm of verse

Posted on January 12, 2017January 12, 2017 by John

The Literary Review newsletter of 2/11/16  held a review of a biography of Jonathan Swift, exposing one of the striking cultural prejudices of the last century, which still hangs in the air of our own times: “In his everyday life Jonathan Swift was fastidiously clean. In his writing, however, he was capable of what was…

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