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Art: PUC Students Study Beauty in Paris

By: Sharon
Fujimoto-Johnson

 

A group of honors students from Pacific Union College recently completed “Beauty,” a
class on art and aesthetics, in a two-week excursion to Paris, France.
“The course is not only a study of art history, but an
examination of how we define beauty and aesthetics and how our definitions shape
our perceptions of the world,” says Milbert Mariano, chair of
the visual arts department, in an article posted on the PUC web site. Mariano teaches
“Beauty” with Nancy
Lecourt
, PUC’s Academic Dean.
 
The course’s web site states that “it is expected that [through this class] students will develop a more informed
understanding of their own concepts of beauty and that they will be well on
their way to developing a personal philosophy of what is beautiful, and what is
art.  It is also expected that students will come to a better understanding of
the importance of ideas about beauty and aesthetics and how views of beauty
inform and shape attitudes and views of the world.”
 
“Beauty” is in its fourth year of existence
and was held in Paris for the first time. Previously, the course has been taught
in Binfield, England and Florence, Italy.
 
Article: “Paris
in the Summer: Honors students study art abroad”

View Photos & Blog: Beauty/Paris
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