In Roman imperial times, however, an important change occurred when mosaic gradually developed its own aesthetic laws.
(For this reason, it is difficult to be gripped by the central puzzle of Mary Mothersill's Beauty Restored — which is how there can be aesthetic truths without aesthetic laws — although this problem is perhaps a cousin of the problem that Hume and Kant think is central).
Let us now consider the claim that there are no interesting nonaesthetic-to-aesthetic laws, rules or principles, and the claim that aesthetic/nonaesthetic dependence relation can obtain, even though there are no such interesting laws, rules or principles.
But it's a good formula — or one I find reliably delightful, at least — the theoretical foundation of the Adult Swim, running back to "Space Ghost Coast to Coast" and "Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law," whose aesthetic "Son of Zorn" borrows, while leaving out most of the anomie, despair and disgust.
"When Chelsea Handler does it, which seems to be every day at the moment to diminishing laws of aesthetic return, it's heralded as 'comedy genius'.
Faced with residents who are adapting to what they perceive as new economic and environmental realities, in ways that don't always fit the current laws or aesthetic norms, many communities have been caught off guard.
The law makes no aesthetic judgments.
The aesthetic costs of the new law are taken even more seriously.
Most of the works in "Comic Abstraction," by younger artists, derive inspiration — albeit remote and attenuated, and, at this late date, perhaps unconscious — from the same era that formed Ryman, when abstraction was still a reigning imperative and self-consciousness in and about aesthetic experience became an iron law.
Most of the works in "Comic Abstraction," by younger artists, derive inspiration albeit remote and attenuated, and, at this late date, perhaps unconscious from the same era that formed Ryman, when abstraction was still a reigning imperative and self-consciousness in and about aesthetic experience became an iron law.
