Reviewing the history and philosophy of art, especially Nietzsche’s aesthetics, this lecture begins with the canon of Greek sculpture, the Doryphorus, which we know through several marble copies but which was originally cast in bronze. Pliny and others tell us that literally thousands of such statues stood in cities like Athens as well as Rhodes and Olympia, etc. This phenomenological and historical presentation reviews the built world (statuar but also temple architecture and reliefs) of the ancient Greeks as the modeling of form and rectitude (in both ethical and political senses). In this sense, art would serve as the very formal aspect of education and the Greek experience of themselves as Greek. Can we look at statues, better said, can we still permit statues to act upon us, in the same way today?

Thursday, February 26th at 6:30 PM

Onassis Cultural Center
645 Fifth Avenue (51st/52nd St)
NYC, USA

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