Valuing Nature: The Imperative of Being, 2002 The inquiry, “Valuing Nature,” was first prompted by critique of an attempt to assess the natural world’s economic value. Later the inquiry was broadened so that “Valuing Nature” could be viewed from a variety of...
Venetian Painting as an Incarnation of Joyous Humanism and Secular Spirituality The Venetian Religious Paintings of Dionysos and Eros at the National Gallery of Art These are “terrible” times and it would be beautiful and even “spiritually” therapeutic for the New...
Poussin: Organic Classicism Foreword Now, in 2008, the Metropolitan Museum has decided to celebrate Poussin and Nature. The following article from fourteen years ago has some relevance to both this exhibition and our current understanding of how we evaluate nature....
Designing the New World Picture Abstract for Presentation at Conference: “Code”Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA)Portland, ME, November 2007 Art and science can work together to construct human flourishing. We recognize the height of Greek culture...
Real Transcendence — The Necessary Means of Designing Environmental Justice A statement inspired by the narrative painting “The Birth of Nature and Death of Narcissus” For Man is nature’s agent and interpreter; he does and understands only as much as he has observed...
