Yale Center for British Art
1080 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT 06520-8280

The Power of Beauty: Aesthetics, Politics, Morality
Graduate Student Symposium
Saturday, April 5, 2008
9am-6:30pm

Keynote Lecture 5:30pm
Beauty Matters
Elizabeth Prettejohn, Professor of the History of Art, University of Bristol

This one-day graduate student symposium will explore the aesthetic,
political, and moral power of beauty.

In 2005, Elizabeth Prettejohn’s book Beauty and Art set out to challenge
“the late-twentieth-century view of beauty as irrevocably opposed to any
form of responsible politics” by exploring beauty’s “capacity to stimulate
fresh thinking and fresh debate.” This symposium will consider the issues
surrounding beauty, both within the discipline of art history and more
broadly in the arts and humanities, and will evaluate its potential as a
subject of intellectual inquiry in today’s academic climate. The program
will include breakout sessions in exhibitions and permanent collections at
Yale University.

The symposium is free and open to the public; advance registration is
recommended. Please register online at:
http://ycbasignup.wufoo.com/forms/symposium-registration-form/. For more
information, email ycba.researchyale.edu.

Support for this symposium has been generously provided by the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation.

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