PJA Current Edition
Autumn Issue
For our Autumn issue interview, Paloma
Atencia-Linares (University College London) talks to Professor Dominic McIver
Lopes (University of British Columbia). Professor Lopes has contributed
influentially to all the main areas of contemporary aesthetics: pictorial
representation, theories of artistic value and epistemology and ontology of
art. In this wide-ranging interview Lopes explains his views on these topics,
and also talks about computer art, the subject of his most recent book.
The other contribution to the issue comes from
David O’Brien (Florida Atlantic University). Mathematical and literary texts may
seem like an odd couple; but O’Brien argues they in fact have an important
common ground – what he calls ‘minimally literary qualities’. Over a range of
examples, such as Yeats’s poem ‘Gyres’ and the proof of the irrationality of √2, he
shows how mathematics can enrich our appreciation of literature.
Volume 8, No 2 September, 2011