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                                              Cultural Actualization Aesthetic

                A collection of essays framing the end of the Modern era in art and society        

                                and the beginning of a new cultural paradigm

The  Jungian influenced thesis incorporates the vital enigma in art as a proactive force in society. The essays examine the heightened symbolic experience in art at its origin in Greek tragedy, as it manifests in the aesthetic response of Modernism and for its potential in the realization of a new social order.

                                                         I. End of an Era

1.  Significant Form and the Symbolic Experience

2.  The Postmodern Dilemma

3.  Mimesis and the Aesthetic Experience

4.  Television Mystique: Electronic Synchrony and the Television Totem

5.  Corporate Capitalism and the End of Consumerism

6. Ethics in America in the Wake of Christianity

                                              II. Changing Cultural Paradigm

 

7.   Neo-Pop: Venice Boardwalk Cultural Experience

8.   Community Mural and the Changing Cultural Paradigm in America

9.   New Cultural Paradigm: Community Art at the End of the Culture War