As another example of approaches to beauty in the sciences, I recommend The
Algorithmic Beauty of Seashells, by Hans Meinhardt.
https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783540921417
Dave
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 09:47 Heidi Overhill <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> If anyone is interested in at least one plausible attempt to crack the nut
> of beauty, they might look into Denis Dutton, The Art Instinct: Beauty,
> Pleasure, and Human Evolution (2009), in which he proposes a "Darwinian
> aesthetics" linking art activities to biological fitness.
> There are a number of books about the influence of science on art, one of
> which is a very pretty picture book called Exploring the Invisible: Art,
> Science and the Spiritual (Gamwell, 2005).
> As that example may suggest, in discussions of this kind it is important
> to distinguish between "art" and "beauty," because much contemporary art
> bears little relation to beauty -- it has other concerns. For
> example, Russian artists Vital Komar and Alexander Melamid looked at art
> through a political lens when they commissioned international surveys to
> determine what kind of art is preferred in different countries, noting that
> "polls are maybe one of the only means of communication between the upper
> classes and lower classes." ("Painting by Numbers: The Search for a
> People's Art,” The Nation, March 14, 1994, pp. 334-348.) You can use Google
> to track down their hilarious "United States: Most Wanted Painting"
> (1994). Dutton makes mention of these artists in terms of their
> relationship to the "savannah hypothesis" of landscape beauty.
> Once again, a bit of background reading might enrich discussions on the
> list, fun though it is to start from scratch and broadcast original new
> opinions off the top of your head.
> Heidi
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