{"id":1463,"date":"2011-08-02T00:18:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T05:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"Encountering art, whether literature or painting, sculpture or music, theater or architecture, film or poetry, often elicits an immediate response: I love it; It's <em>okay<\/em>; That's horrible; I'm offended; Give me a break; How magnificent.\u00a0 <!--more--"},"modified":"2011-10-10T22:21:55","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T03:21:55","slug":"aesthetic-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/spotlight-schedule\/aesthetic-perspectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Perspectives from the Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Encountering art, whether literature or painting, sculpture or music, theater or architecture, film or poetry, often elicits an immediate response: I love it; It&#8217;s <em>okay<\/em>; That&#8217;s horrible; I&#8217;m offended; Give me a break; How magnificent.\u00a0 <!--more--> Can we really know that art is good or bad, or is it all a matter of one person&#8217;s subjective opinion versus another&#8217;s?\u00a0 Does art reflect life, or life reflect art?\u00a0 What value does anything artistic bring to our lives?\u00a0 Can we live without art?<\/p>\n<p>In his Spotlight presentation, Dan McGregor asks us to consider some of these questions.\u00a0 Sometimes the answers are fairly straightforward, but at other times, they are not.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube o7hhZJF9Js4 590 440]<\/p>\n<h3>Reading<\/h3>\n<p>In preparation for this Spotlight session, please read the following excerpt:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/webfiles.acu.edu\/departments\/General%20Education\/CORE%20110\/Readings\/Brand_Chaplin-Art_and_Blurred_Boundaries.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Hilary Brand and Adrienne Chaplin, &#8220;Art and Blurred Boundaries&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<em>(Note: myACU login required to view reading.)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hilary Brand and Adrienne Chaplin, <em>Art and Soul: Signposts for Christians in the Arts<\/em><span>.\u00a0 (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1999), 110-122.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This article references many images and artists. For those artists that are unfamiliar, take a look at this <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/spotlight-schedule\/aesthetic-perspectives\/art-from-blurred-boundaries-image-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\">visual guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><em>Join the Conversation<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>If you have a question for this week&#8217;s speaker or would like to share a conclusion of your own, please post it as a comment below. We welcome off-campus voices to the public Cornerstone dialogue as long as they are respectful and contribute meaningfully to these curricular discussions. See the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/terms-of-use\/\" target=\"_blank\">ACU Blogs Terms of Use<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/about\/\">About Cornerstone<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<p><!--sidebar--><\/p>\n<h1>Spotlight Resources<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/the-art-of-the-matter\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1656\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/files\/2011\/08\/greek-comedy-tragedy-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/files\/2011\/08\/greek-comedy-tragedy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/files\/2011\/08\/greek-comedy-tragedy-92x92.jpg 92w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/files\/2011\/08\/greek-comedy-tragedy-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/files\/2011\/08\/greek-comedy-tragedy-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/files\/2011\/08\/greek-comedy-tragedy-174x174.jpg 174w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/files\/2011\/08\/greek-comedy-tragedy-78x78.jpg 78w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/files\/2011\/08\/greek-comedy-tragedy-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/the-art-of-the-matter\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Art of the Matter<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/spotlight-schedule\/gods-idols-terrorists-jesus\/a-book-burning-jesus\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/spotlight-schedule\/aesthetic-perspectives\/canon-fodder\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1918\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/files\/2011\/08\/canonfodder.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/files\/2011\/08\/canonfodder.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/files\/2011\/08\/canonfodder-92x92.jpg 92w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/files\/2011\/08\/canonfodder-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/files\/2011\/08\/canonfodder-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/files\/2011\/08\/canonfodder-78x78.jpg 78w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/files\/2011\/08\/canonfodder-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/spotlight-schedule\/aesthetic-perspectives\/canon-fodder\/\" target=\"_blank\">Canon Fodder<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>BIOGRAPHY<\/h3>\n<p>Dan McGregor is an associate professor in the Department of Art and Design.\u00a0 A painter and illustrator, his work has been featured in national and international exhibitions, and his illustrations have been published in national venues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Encountering art, whether literature or painting, sculpture or music, theater or architecture, film or poetry, often elicits an immediate response: I love it; It&#8217;s okay; That&#8217;s horrible; I&#8217;m offended; Give me a break; How magnificent.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1665,"featured_media":1567,"parent":10,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1463","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1932,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1463\/revisions\/1932"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}