Crossing the divide: A website about Literature, Art & Philosophy by Venkat Ramanan

My review of Peter Godfrey-Smith's book, Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousnes s has just been published in the Newtown Review of Books . (Image: Pleine Mer, Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) (Wikimedia Commons))

Is aesthetics only about art that is beautiful as conventionally understood? If not, what purpose does art that may not be so serve? My new essay published in May 2022 in Blue Labyrinths        Image: John Constable, Hadleigh Castle (1837) (Public Domain)