texts/reviews

Lorenzo Buj Ph.D. English, art critic and lecturer at the University of Windsor and University of Western Ontario (Culture & Ideas, Nineteenth Century Art History)

Lucy Hartley Associate Professor, Department of English at the University of Michigan. She has written a number of articles on nineteenth-century literature, science, and art, and more broadly on aesthetic theory. Her first book, "Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture," was published by Cambridge University Press in 2001; and she is now completing her next book, "The Democracy of the Beautiful, from Ruskin to Symonds: 'The Sense of the Common'." [link]

Ferenc Jádi (* 1952 in Töröcske, Hungary) is a Hungarian art theorist who received his PhD in 1976 working in the field of hermeneutics and the phenomenology of the image. Besides numerous publications in Hungary, he holds publications in Germany: Art Brut, Identity and Expression, Intersubjectivity and Schizophrenia, The Doctor's Dream - Freud and Dürer, Improvisation and Ontology.He teaches as a senior professor at the University of Dortmund, Germany.

John Conomos' art practice cuts across a variety of art forms - video, new media, installation, performance and radiophonic art - and deals with autobiography, identity, memory, post-colonialism, and the "in- between" links between cinema, literature, and the visual arts. Healso works as critic and writer, and Senior Lecturer in film and new media studies at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.

Donna Schumacher, published in Sculpture Magazine, April 1998

Ann Morrison, MESH Magazine, Australia. Ann Morrison is currently an Interaction Design Researcher, Confirmed Candidature for PhD "Understanding Engagement in Interactive Art Environments", School of ITEE, University of Queensland [ Ann Morrison ] [MESH the journal of Experimenta Media Arts]

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Inspiration:

Leonard Koren's book "Wabi Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers" inspired us in many ways to keep our conversations going on how beauty as an event remains a major engine in our lives.

Roland Barthes (text in German)

Crispin Sartwell's Six Names of Beauty looks at the different implications language has on concepts of beauty: ancient Greek's "to kalon," the Japanese idea of "wabi-sabi," Hebrew's "yapha," the Navajo concept "hozho," Sanskrit "sundara," and the English language "beauty."

History of Beauty edited by Umberto Eco asks the question why is the history of Beauty documented solely through works of art?