Life After Aesthetics takes a new look at our obsession with beauty and art by asking one simple question: how'd we end up with Beauty?
We'll compare Adele to Geoffrey Chaucer, evaluate Hitler based on Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette, and ask the question: do elephants cry?
We’ll look at poop jokes in The Holy Scriptures, the ethics of $9 cups of Miller Light at baseball games, and this archetype called The Nerd Who Gets The Girl. We’ll also talk about warm apple pie, and I mean that both ways. If you’re ready to think big thoughts and explore deep feelings: grab something comfortable and your desert of preference — be it coffee or stout beer, apple pie or a pipe. Now that you’re comfy, listen up:
"People never looked at art so much as through art to something transcendent and inexpressible, even if they refused to transcend or express. Whatever it was, the art itself was never the point. The point lay beyond and behind the art, sun behind clouds and heavens behind earth…"
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