“The aesthetic experience is a simple beholding of the object . . . you experience a radiance. You are held in aesthetic arrest.” - Joseph Campbell
Aesthetic Arrest is our weekly dip into the Epicurean pleasures we’ve been enjoying lately. Here we go!
Ryan Wildstar’s Recommendations:
Reading: The Lost Lunar Baedeker by Mina Loy
Listening: Autofiction by Suede
Looking: The Art of Sascha Schneider
The Cabinet of the Solar Plexus
Viewing: Doc Martin Series 10 (The Final Series) starring Martin Clunes & Caroline Catz (ITV - coming soon to Acorn TV!)
Tasting: Ryan Wildstar’s Frittata
Ryan Elston’s Recommendations:
Reading: Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age by Robert D. Kaplan
“Yes, I can take an interior journey as brilliantly colored as an external one. And I can take this journey only because of the books I have read—another case where books liberate. Travel, as opposed to tourism, is only made possible by literature. A landscape must be anchored in books during this time in history when globalization has obliterated much of what is distinctive.” - Robert D. Kaplan, from Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age
Listening: Hyper‐Dimensional Expansion Beam by The Comet Is Coming
Looking: The Art of William T. Williams
William T. Williams at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
William T. Williams at The History Makers
Video Slideshow of Paintings of Williams T. Williams
Viewing: Cunk on Earth created by Charlie Brooker and starring Diane Morgan as Philomena Cunk (BBC - coming soon to Netflix!)
Tasting: Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking: 30th Anniversary Edition by Marcella Hazan
Great article about Marcella Hazan (including her recipe for Roast Chicken With Lemons!): Human Skulls, Misogynists, and Disability: On the Life of Marcella Hazan and Her Return to Culinary Simplicity
That’s it for this week! What are your reading, listening, looking, viewing and/or tasting recommendations?
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