Our Institution of High Art

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By Nicholas Wolterstorff on January 1, 1981 ,

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Our Institution of High Art

Professor Woltertorff begins this fascinating lecture describing three visions of art in the contemporary world: the expressionist view, the autonomous view, and the Marxist view.  He then moves on to discuss an alternative to these three, namely the need to see art in the modern social context.  However, not all art is “high art”, which is art appreciated by the intellectual/cultured elite. Art for contemplation, listening or perhaps reading. High art is essentially expressed in a unique social context, frequently western.

This is a Legacy Audio recording drawn from a collection of free audio resources over the last 30+ years featuring themes which are still relevant today. Due to the archival nature of the recordings, some of the audio content may not be up to today's digital standards, but nonetheless, the content is still applicable.

 

 

Nicholas Wolterstorff

Philosopher

Nicholas Wolterstorff is an American philosopher and theologian. After earning his B.A, in philosophy at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1953, he entered Harvard University, where he earned his M.A, and Ph.D. in philosophy.  He is currently Noah Porter Professor Emeritus Philosophical Theology at Yale University. A prolific writer with wide-ranging philosophical and theological interests, he has written books on aesthetics, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and philosophy of education. In Faith and Rationality, Wolterstorff, Alvin Plantinga, and William Alston developed and expanded upon a view of religious epistemology that has come to be known as Reformed epistemology. He also helped to establish the journal Faith and Philosophy and the Society of Christian Philosophers.

 

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