Aesthetics

To help me understand more about the art and the beauty of it I took out from a library a Cahn, S.M. and Meskin, A. book ‘Aesthetics: a comprehensive anthology’ as well as dug out from my books box another book ‘Philosophical Aesthetics:  an introduction’ by Oswald Hanfling.

I feel quite anxious about the prospect of getting back in to art aesthetics. I did study aesthetics a little bit during my college years and I remember this subject being quite hard to get to grips with. There are so many theories and theorist and because it is art and not a science, there is really no right and wrong or true and false. The two books are really tick and I would imagine it’s going to take me a while to get trough them. What I’m expecting from the reading is a better understanding about art, its meaning, also theories that I could use when looking not only at traditional art for inspiration, but also give me some sort of solid grounding when analysing art in games and producing my own art for my honours year project. Also, I hope that all this knowledge will help to move me forwards towards finally identifying my aim for the project, because at the current point in time I feel like I know what I want to create, why and perhaps how I’m going to do it, but just cannot tie all these things in to that one sentence that can actually explain my project.

Crit week is roughly in weeks’ time and Project proposal in 6 weeks and I am not in the right point in time with my understanding about the whole project. I just hope that all the reading and perhaps some practical stuff that I’m creating will help me finally organise things in my head in time for submissions.



Cahn, S.M. and Meskin, A. 2008. Aesthetics: a comprehensive anthology. Oxford: Blackwell Pub

Hanfling, O. 1992. Philosophical Aesthetics:  an introduction. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing