The Philosophy of Art & Beauty

Syllabus Fall 2009

Texts for Fall 2009

Crispin Sartwell, Six Names of Beauty. Taylor and Francis

John Armstrong, The Secret Power of Beauty. Penguin

Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness. Pantheon

The Art Book. Phaidon

The Power of Images

The Divine as Human Form

An Example of a Christian Metaphorical Transmutation

The Divine as Impersonal

A Dance to the Music of Time

Claude Lorraine, Judgment of Paris

Apollo Belvedere

Gainsborough’s Daughters

Cuyp, Dordrecht

Bonington, Rouen

Botticelli, Birth of Venus

Rembrandt, Woman Bathing

Friedrich, Frau am Fenster

Chardin, La Gouvernante

Chardin, House of Cards

Supplementary Readings

Dimensions of an Aesthetic Encounter

Philosophy and the Play of Life

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