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Fall 2020-Oscar Wilde and the art of perception
Interdisciplinary Honors Seminar studying questions of aesthetics and perception as they play out in the works of Oscar Wilde and in the world we inhabit today.
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Florence, Italy is the birthplace of the period we now know of as the Renaissance Era. The Renaissance Era was a rebirth of European cultural, artistic, political, and economic values following the Middle Ages. This time period is associated with a shift in thinking in how humans perceive the world around them. During the Middle Ages, advances in science and art in Europe was not common. The Middle Age time period is sometimes branded as the "Dark Age" because of the lack of scientific and cultural advancement. Since the Middle Ages was regarded with such a lack of innovation, the Renaissance Era was a welcome change in society. Some of the most renowned scientists, artists, and authors came from the Renaissance Era. The Renaissance Era is known for being the gap between the Middle Ages and modern-day civilization.
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History.com Editors. “Renaissance.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 4 Apr. 2018,...
moreBexleyheath, location of Red House, designed by William Morris (architect Philip Webb) and home to the Morris family. Completed in 1860 and birthplace of the Arts & Crafts movement.
The Zen art and aesthetic principles were introduced into Japan in 1191 that integrated art and aesthetics along with the diversity of Japanese cultured activities such as poetry, paintings, flower arrangement, and swordsmanship. With the long history of teachings that inspired oral communication, no scholars can record them early. The values of this principle pointed toward being truer to the natural world, which is unsymmetrical and imperfect. The relevant goal of Fukinsei principle is to highlight “isness” or “suchness” in reality, by accepting one’s nature that inevitably comprised imperfections and irregularities for the ease of mindful living and mental health. Art has affected affecting their thinking on how to see nature in a certain way. We all see actual things under the impact of art that we have observed before and giving a similar definition to them. Art has affected us psychologically, in which we observe things not based on our sensory experience but by cognitive and...
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