The 2022 Symposium, “For the Love of Poiesis: Teaching the Fine Arts,” explored the fine arts—from music and dance to painting and sculpture—with a focus on the way students in classical settings learn, not only to understand and appreciate fine art, but to create it themselves. Making (poesis) is the experience which gives shape to the soul.
General Reading
Roger Scruton, Beauty: A Very Short Introduction
Frederick Turner, Beauty: The Value of Values
Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just
T. S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent T.S. Eliot
Helen Vendler, The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar
Contributor Books
Owen Anderson, The Declaration of Independence and God
Juliette Aristides, Beginning Drawing Atelier
Mark Bauerlein, The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future
Karen Bohlin, Teaching Character Education Through Literature: Awakening the Moral Imagination in Secondary Classrooms
James Hankins, Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy
Bruce Herman, Through Your Eyes
Junius Johnson, The Father of Lights: A Theology of Beauty, Patristic and Medieval Atonement Theory
Andrew Kern, Classical Education: The Movement Sweeping America
Mary Frances Loughran, Cana Writing Guide: Writing Well, Thinking Clearly
Robert Maranto, Educating Believers: Religion and School Choice
David Mason, Ludlow
Christopher Perrin, An Introduction to Classical Education: A Guide for Parents
Anika Prather, The Black Intellectual Tradition: Reading Freedom in Classical Literature
Carol Reynolds, Hurrah and Hallelujah! 100 Traditional Songs
David Rothman, My Brother’s Keeper
James Matthew Wilson, The Strangeness of the Good
Andrew Zwerneman, History Forgotten and Remembered
Conference Papers
Frederick Turner, “What is Beauty”
Image: Abraham van Strij, Reading Old Woman at Window, oil on canvas, wikiart.org
