Denis Duton (1944 - 2010), philosopher of art, talks about an interesting theory of beauty. He confers about a new perspective of how to think beauty in culture.
He starts saying that we have to explain our tastes and what we think about “beauty” taking a look to the past, against the general thinking that explains beauty as cultural heritage which we learn since we born or the typical sentence “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”.
He says beauty is an experience useful for evolution to make decisions to survival based on our interest, affinity and attraction. It’s a kind of radar looking for what gives us pleasure and what is good for us.
About beauty on art works he refers to prehistory to explains that the stone tools made fourteen million years ago whose could have been used to hunt, it was actually aesthetics objects valued by its craftsmanship, sign of intelligence and skills, aspects which raised their social and reproductive status. This technique was used to create art works (paintings, music, movies, dance) and to express emotions , this establish that we have found as beauty since beginning of human times was work well done, capacity and tates for that.
This theory makes perfect sense to me, I had not heard it before and is nice to know about beauty studies ... it’s a never ends topic. Beyond that its right or wrong , indeed I like the idea that beauty is a remaining capacity into our minds, because it’s a opportunity to think about art.
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