Unseen beauty: The persistence of the medieval in contemporary aesthetics
The experience of beauty is no less mysterious for the aesthetician today than it was in the Middle Ages. Here I focus on the notion of ‘unseen beauty’ and how certain aspects of medieval philosophizing about the nature of beauty can still be of use for the contemporary aesthetician. I draw a compar...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2022 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) |
| Repository: | Veritas (Porto Alegre. Online) |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/43273 |
| Online Access: | https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/veritas/article/view/43273 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | visible beauty unseen beauty aesthetics experience art belleza visible belleza invisible estética experiencia arte beleza visível beleza invisível experiência |
| Summary: | The experience of beauty is no less mysterious for the aesthetician today than it was in the Middle Ages. Here I focus on the notion of ‘unseen beauty’ and how certain aspects of medieval philosophizing about the nature of beauty can still be of use for the contemporary aesthetician. I draw a comparison between some concepts that pervade the whole of the Medieval period – that there is a transcendent source of visible beauty, and that visible beauties function as images of the invisible beauty – with a modern conception of aesthetic experience, as it is expressed in authors like Clive Bell. |
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