Essays about: "Nicolas Cheng"

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  1. 1. The beauty of nothingness

    University essay from Ädellab/Metallformgivning

    Author : Nicolas Cheng; [2010]
    Keywords : Kant; Burke; sublime; apollonian; dionysian; standard society; beauty; ugliness; purification; absence beauty; nothingness;

    Abstract : If I relate beauty to nothingness, what happens? Is nothingness sort of an absence of beauty? Or it is portrayed by our culture and society, and, in such case, can I define this absence of beauty? Is it beauty that you cannot even catch? Is its appearance neutral, almost hidden? When we are born, we all have the same degree of beauty and purity, which is progressively lost as long as we start growing up. In a life span, we accumulate wrinkles, and defects and dirt which needs to be concealed in order to fit in certain social categories. READ MORE