Curated category
Concepts in aesthetics
- ArtArt has no generally agreed definition, and yet a shell engraved by Homo erectus has been dated to between 430,000 and 540,000 years old.
- DesignDesign is a concept or proposal for an object, process, or system. The word carries a quiet ambition. It refers to something intentionally created by a…
- FashionFashion takes its name from the Latin word facere, meaning "to make." That single verb hides a vast machinery: the making, mixing, and wearing of outfits…
- Conceptual artConceptual art begins with a sentence, not a brushstroke. The American artist Sol LeWitt put it plainly. In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most…
- TimeTime is what a clock reads. Physicists settled on that blunt, almost evasive definition to escape a trap, because defining time any other way tends to fold…
- EntertainmentEntertainment dedicated the Colosseum in AD 80 with a hundred days of games, packing fifty thousand spectators into a single arena to enjoy blood sport…
- Authenticity (philosophy)In 1850, Søren Kierkegaard published Practice in Christianity to challenge the passive acceptance of religious faith. He argued that personal authenticity…
- GazeThe gaze, known in French as le regard, is something far more loaded than a simple act of looking. It is the awareness one person has of another, the…
- ÜbermenschThe Übermensch sits at the heart of Friedrich Nietzsche's 1883 book Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and it has been misread, weaponized, and reclaimed ever since.
- Avant-gardeAvant-garde is a French military term that once described a reconnaissance unit sent ahead of the main army to scout unknown terrain.
- Cultural appropriationCultural appropriation sits at the intersection of art, politics, identity, and power. When model Karlie Kloss walked the Victoria's Secret runway in 2012…