{"id":4,"date":"2013-10-09T15:17:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T19:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/colemanj\/?p=4"},"modified":"2013-10-09T15:17:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T19:17:41","slug":"tough-handy-and-good-lookin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/colemanj\/2013\/10\/09\/tough-handy-and-good-lookin\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough, Handy and Good Lookin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Aesthetics in the New Millenium!<\/p>\n<p>Aesthetics has been described as the philosophy of beauty and art; this blog is dedicated to the reinterpretation of the term aesthetics and to both the expansion and refining of this field.\u00a0 We take a hammer (albeit a beautiful one) to some of the long-standing conventions in this realm of philosophy and search for ways to make it a pursuit with practical applications.<\/p>\n<p>Firmitas, Utilitas, Venustas.\u00a0 These words translate to Strong, Useful, Beautiful (respectively) and can be found etched in the stone archways of many\u00a0schools of architecture.\u00a0 In the\u00a0New Aesthetics, we don&#8217;t seperate<em> strength<\/em>, <em>utility<\/em>, or for that matter, <em>morality<\/em> from Beauty.\u00a0 Additionally, we consider art and design as the application of Aesthetics.<\/p>\n<p>More to come&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/colemanj\/files\/2013\/10\/hammer-z8vaae.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5\" title=\"The Beautiful Hammer\" src=\"http:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/colemanj\/files\/2013\/10\/hammer-z8vaae.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Aesthetics in the New Millenium! Aesthetics has been described as the philosophy of beauty and art; this blog is dedicated to the reinterpretation of the term aesthetics and to both the expansion and refining of this field.\u00a0 We take a hammer (albeit a beautiful one) to some of the long-standing conventions in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/colemanj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/colemanj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/colemanj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/colemanj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/colemanj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/colemanj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/colemanj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/colemanj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/colemanj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/colemanj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}