Category: Art & Aesthetics
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Context Is Everything
There was a news story making the rounds last week concerning some “pranksters” who “fooled” some people at a food-industry exposition in Houten, Netherlands by offering them fare from a local McDonald’s presented as though it were haute cuisine. That the “victims” of this stunt did not recognize they were being served regular fast food…
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A Prolegomenon to Any Future Aesthetics
The title is a variation on a famous work by 18th century German philosopher Immanuel Kant and the painting, Twilight in The Wilderness, is by the 19th century American artist, Frederic Edwin Church and can be found in the Cleveland Museum of Art. In the upcoming weeks and months, I will begin addressing questions concerning…