1. ÆSTHETICS
Beauty is more than skin deep!
Cross-Culture Communication
National Chi Nan University, Taiwan
Anthropology
Dr. Noel W. Schutz Jr.
Speaker: Lawrenzo Hung-Chun Huang

2. Beauty is more than skin deep
What is “beauty”?

3. Golden Proportion

4. Imaginational Harmonic
Kalachakra Mandala

5. The Trend and Fashion
Baroque 17th
(Classic)
Exogenous
Rococo 18th
(Neoclassic)
Minute and
complicated
Madame de Pompadour 1755, Maurice Quentin de La Tour

6. Invisible Beauty
- Literature & Music
Romanticist
Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
Notre Dame de Paris
Tragedy Beauty
Lee Yee(李煜; 宋詞)
春花秋月何時了
When will there be no more moon and spring flowers
往事知多少
For me who had so many memorable hours?
小樓昨夜又東風
My attic which last night in vernal wind did stand
故國不堪回首月明中
Reminds cruelly of the lost moonlit land.
雕欄玉砌應猶在
Carved balustrades and marble steps must still be there,
只是朱顏改
But rosy faces cannot be as fair.
問君能有幾多愁
If you ask me how much my sorrow has increased,
恰似一江春水向東流
Just see the over brimming river flowing east!

7. The Essence of Aesthetic
Psychology and Philosophy
Cognition
Ex. Balance vs. Unbalance
Balance->harmonic
->order->predicable->safe
Unbalance->noise
->chaos->random ->dangerous
Expressiveness
Implication

8. Conflict in aesthetics
Facial Tattoo and cosmetic
Head and shoulders portrait of a
Talyal lady with Badasun Native American, Yucatec Maya Māori man, his hair in a topknot with
(Ataya facial tattoo); feathers and a bone comb, full facial
She is qualify to weave cloth moko, a greenstone earring, a tiki
and a flax cloak. He has a small
beard and a moustache.

9. Conflict in aesthetics
Dress
和服わふくwafuku

10. Conflict in aesthetics
Figure

11. Conflict in aesthetics
Space arrangement
Japanese Rock Gardens (Zen Garden) Monet Styles Gardens
Karesansui かれさんすい

12. Conflict in aesthetics
Building
Tao Tempo of Lur-Cheng-Kong(樂成宮), Chapel of Nôtre Dame du Haut,
Taichung, Taiwan, Anonymous, 1790. Ronchamp, France, Le Corbusier, 1955.

13. The essence of aesthetical
conflict
External message
Internal Interpretive
Beauty
Perception
Axiology; quality or value
Social Atmosphere
Social
Social Culture
Culture
Anthropology
Anthropology Anthropology
Anthropology
Human Behaviors Pattern
Nature Resource; Ecology

14. The Essence of Aesthetical
Conflict
1. Universality
2. Consciousness
3. Indigenize
Perception Perception Perception Perception
Axiology; quality or value Axiology; quality or value Axiology; quality or value Axiology; quality or value
Social Atmosphere Social Atmosphere Social Atmosphere Social Atmosphere
Human Behaviors Pattern Human Behaviors Pattern Human Behaviors Pattern Human Behaviors Pattern
Nature Resource; Ecology Nature Resource; Ecology Nature Resource; Ecology Nature Resource; Ecology
Africa
Africa Asia
Asia Europe
Europe America
America

15. Discussion
Can we ease the Aesthetical Conflict!?
1. Consolidation!
2. Remix; Combination!
3. Not necessary, Leave it alone !
4. Deference and appreciation.
Perception Perception Perception Perception
Axiology; quality or value Axiology; quality or value Axiology; quality or value Axiology; quality or value
Social Atmosphere Social Atmosphere Social Atmosphere Social Atmosphere
Human Behaviors Pattern Human Behaviors Pattern Human Behaviors Pattern Human Behaviors Pattern
Nature Resource; Ecology Nature Resource; Ecology Nature Resource; Ecology Nature Resource; Ecology
Africa
Africa Asia
Asia Europe
Europe America
America

16. Thanks Your Attention!
ÆSTHETICS
Beauty is more than skin deep!
Cross-Culture Communication
Lecture: Dr. Noel W. Schutz Jr.
Speaker: Lawrenzo Hung-Chun Huang
National Chi Nan University
May 12, 2009