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Aesthetics in an Experimental Age

Since its outset the human enterprise has been measured by the acquisition of knowledge and the production of beauty. Generations of scientists and artists have defined their cultures by practicing their interdependent crafts ... (Editor's Note)

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Latest Articles

Speaking a Word for Nature: Science and Poetry in Rhetoric of Thoreau's Transcendental Ecology
Nathan Crick
Naturalizing Technology in Late Nineteenth Century America: An Aesthetic of Excess Meaning in the Paintings of J. Alden Weir
Larry Lambert
William Morris’ Arts & Crafts Aesthetic Rhetoric
Andrew King
Sound Technology and the Immobilization in Public Visions of Buster Keaton
Thomas Vaughn

 

Through the Objective Lens: The Ethics of Expression and Repression of High Art in Photojournalism
Peggy J. Bowers
Visual Representation of Health Information: A Critique of the 2005 Food Pyramid
Carey Noland & M. Isabel Meirelles
Exhibitions in Life and Death: The Photography of Lucinda Devlin, Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds, and the Disassembly of Scientific Progress
Stephanie Houston Grey

Past Issues

Determining Place and Shaping Change
Volume 9, Issue 4
Establishing Identities
Volume 9, Issue 3
Digital Humanity
Volume 9, Issue 2
Narrative in Times of Crisis
Volume 9, Issue 1