The Magic of Beauty
July 26, 2018, 8:00 - 10:00 PM
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Professor Dr. Karin Dannecker examines the issue of beauty in art history, aesthetics and human development. Beginning with classical viewpoints from antiquity, she describes the changing definitions and applications in modernity.
Professor Dannecker focuses on the development of the capacity for aesthetic pleasure linked to early relational experiences in life. She explores aesthetic longing as the yearning to overcome the pain of separation– feelings we have to deal with from the beginning of life.
The experience of beauty can be considered the most successful way to bring together the separation and polarization between the inner and the outer world. Examples from art and case vignettes from art therapy will be included.
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