Modern Humanities Week 13:

Representing the Modern: Representations of the Human Spirit

Art in the Modern Age

• The Move to the Modern in Art
• Modern Art and Artists: The Move to Abstraction
• Looking at Portraits
• What is the aesthetic experience in modernity?
  • Mimesis
    • Plato & Aristotle on Mimesis
    • Wilde on Mimesis
  • Hegel on art
    • Hegel Summary
  • Schopenhauer on art
  • Tolstoy and aesthetic experience
  • Clive Bell and aesthetic experience
  • Nehemas

Modernity and Music: Jazz

• Jazz Styles Timeline
• History of Jazz
• History of Jazz links
• One page history of jazz
• Definitions of jazz terms