Tag: Taste
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September 22, 2023 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. For me, Aristotle’s Poetics is less about advice for the writer than it is about defining structures. By that, I mean that Aristotle wants us to understand how to produce good art that expresses an important aspect of human nature. He goes so …
December 2, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. I used to whiz right past any additional sections of a book. Focused only on main content, I often skipped the introduction or preface, background material, acknowledgments or footnotes. In other words, I used to skip a lot of text. I chalk this …
August 24, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. How do algorithms know which options are right for you? They are purportedly a mathematical calculation based on personal tastes, previous preferences and your own interaction. I will use examples from Pandora and Netflix to express my meaning, but really, I could broaden …
June 15, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “A wise man always eats well.” – Chinese proverb MFK Fisher (a friend and contemporary of Julia Child) first published How to Cook a Wolf in 1942 in the midst of World War II. The book deals with domestic stresses during war time, …
September 9, 2016 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. First, something to listen to while you read more about taste: “The Lass of Peaty’s Mill” from Francesco Geminiani’s Treatise of Good Taste in the Art of Musick (Susan Hamilton, The Rare Fruits Council, Manfredo Kraemer). Find the full cd here. Taste, according …
September 2, 2016 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire certainly discusses the idea of taste. He has a very rigid understanding of what classical Roman art should be. In fact, according to Gibbon, the stagnation of Rome’s art is one indicator of Rome’s …
