This school year I have been slowly making my way through Etienne Gilson’s book The Arts of the Beautiful. I have been doing this with some other colleagues of mine at Glendale Prep. We’ve been getting together and discussing the book as part of a “Philosophy of Beauty” reading group. It was one of my “intellectual projects” […]
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Art and Narrative
14
Feb 2012
Dear Friends, Please take a moment to CLICK HERE to read Dr. James M. Wilson’s article in First Principles, which he states “Address[es] the pressing need for conservatives to make their case in terms of narrative — which is the mother of all the arts” (https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/08/art-and-beauty-against-the-politicized-aesthetic/) The title of the article is “The Treasonous Clerk: […]
Poetry Postage
02
Feb 2012
Thanks, Davey, for the heads up * * * Is there anything Dana Gioia cannot do with poetry? * * * Former National Endowment for the Arts chair Dana Gioia, who lives in Santa Rosa, is on the committee to select commemorative stamps. On March 3, the Postal Service releases a series of stamps, its […]
Category: Art, beauty, It Is What It Is, Liberal Arts, Literature, Ode, Poetry
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