Thank you Michael! This is such a useful resource you've provided! Back in the Spring, I purchased Paul C. Taylor's book, Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics (and I confess to not yet finishing it) but it's an excellent socio-cultural history of the evolution of Black Aesthetics in the context of colonialism, the consciousness-raising periods of Black Power, and it delves into many thorny issues such as 'authenticity' and cultural appropriation. Your post spurred me to order Nanay's Very Short Introduction to Aesthetics published by Oxford University Press, and it's my goal to acquire the other two as soon as I can save my nickels!
Thank you Michael! This is such a useful resource you've provided! Back in the Spring, I purchased Paul C. Taylor's book, Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics (and I confess to not yet finishing it) but it's an excellent socio-cultural history of the evolution of Black Aesthetics in the context of colonialism, the consciousness-raising periods of Black Power, and it delves into many thorny issues such as 'authenticity' and cultural appropriation. Your post spurred me to order Nanay's Very Short Introduction to Aesthetics published by Oxford University Press, and it's my goal to acquire the other two as soon as I can save my nickels!
Thanks Kate!