Details
Guest presenter:
Professor David Konstan (New York
University)
Lecture Title:
Beauty, Love, and Art: The Legacy of Ancient
Greece
Time and Date:
6.00pm on Tuesday 21st August
Venue:
Webb Lecture Theatre, (G21), Ground Floor, Geography Building,
UWA
Parking:
P18 and P19, entry via Fairway entrance No. 1
Cost: Free. RSVP to ias@uwa.edu.au or 08 6448 1340
Further inquiries:
Contact: Institute
of Advanced Studies
Beauty, Love, and Art
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Abstract:
There is a deep problem with beauty. Beauty is commonly
equated with
sexual attractiveness. Yet there is also the beauty of art, which
arouses an
aesthetic response of disinterested contemplation.
As Roger Scruton writes in his recent book, Beauty (2009):
"In the realm of art beauty is an object of contemplation, not
desire."
Are there, then, two kinds of beauty? By looking back the
classical Greek
conception of beauty, we may see how it gave rise to the modern
dilemma, and some possible ways of resolving it.
David Konstan Biography:
David Konstan is Professor of Classics at New York University and
Professor
Emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at Brown
University.
His research focuses on ancient Greek and Latin literature, and on
classical and Hellenistic philosophy. In recent years, he has
investigated the emotions and value concepts of classical Greece in
Rome.
Professor Konstan is a visiting UWA Institute of Advanced
Studies Professor-at-Large.
