This semester will be a richly interactive experience for us. Our class will extend outside the classroom onto this blog and Facebook. It is appropriate in studying the diverse subject of aesthetics to view it in multiple ways. We are living in an age that is above all aesthetically atuned.
I look forward to working with all of you and heightening our aesthetic perceptions. From time to time we want to welcome Dr. Joe Ferguson to our blogsite. He is a clinical psychologist with a passion for aesthetics; in fact, I am deeply grateful to Joe for formulating the HFAP, which you will soon discover to be a valuable aesthetic tool.
Welcome all,
Dr. Bill Havlicek
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
Back on the blog!
Dear Aesthetic students and friends,
2010 marks the third year that this blogsite has been open to dynamic discussion.
This year I want to invite all bloggers to share, consider and reflect back the
richly diverse ways in which aesthetic experiences occur. The sidebars have video segments from one of the finest examples of such diversity in the form of the human face and the fascinating ways in which we communicate thought and emotion through facial expressions. My thesis is a simple one, namely that in understanding more about how we use our faces we can better understand the perceptional framework by which we understand art and many other related things. Aesthetics is about perception, and in my view there is nothing closer than our faces that can bring perception closer to where we live and breathe. Please begin your immersion into the magical world of Aesthetics by watching these video segments from "The Human Face" where one serious point after another is ingeniously presented by comedian John Cleese.
2010 marks the third year that this blogsite has been open to dynamic discussion.
This year I want to invite all bloggers to share, consider and reflect back the
richly diverse ways in which aesthetic experiences occur. The sidebars have video segments from one of the finest examples of such diversity in the form of the human face and the fascinating ways in which we communicate thought and emotion through facial expressions. My thesis is a simple one, namely that in understanding more about how we use our faces we can better understand the perceptional framework by which we understand art and many other related things. Aesthetics is about perception, and in my view there is nothing closer than our faces that can bring perception closer to where we live and breathe. Please begin your immersion into the magical world of Aesthetics by watching these video segments from "The Human Face" where one serious point after another is ingeniously presented by comedian John Cleese.
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