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Prospect Park Philosophy | Art vs. Reality (Part One)

Philosophy and art have been at war since Ancient Greece. Join me for a look into this battle in a three-part series in Prospect Park! Part One looks at the fraught relationship between art and reality – is art a dangerous illusion, an instruction manual, a mirror, or an escape, and can we even tell where art begins and reality ends?

Part Two looks at the relationship between art and authors: is art primarily an expression of emotion, a game where one artist tries to outdo another; should we even be discussing authors at all when discussing art and who gets to make art anyway?

Part Three looks at art and audiences: do people go to art because they are working out psychological issues? Are they establishing themselves as a person of a certain taste? Are they getting brainwashed? Are they getting fleeced? Is art a new Religion? Expect to see Plato, Alexander Pope, Baudrillard, Wordsworth, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, Freud, Marx and Nietzsche weigh in.

Teacher: Geoff Klock

Geoff Klock has a doctorate from Oxford and is a professor at BMCC-CUNY. He teaches philosophy, Shakespeare, canonical poetry in English, parables, and film (mostly David Lynch). He is the author of four academic books on things like television shows and superheroes. He has been cited 290 times, including in the New Yorker and the LA Times and made a Hamlet Mash Up that got 57,000 views.











When: Wed., Jul. 31, 2019 at 7:15 pm
Where: Prospect Park
95 Prospect Park W.
646-393-9031‎
Price: $15/session or $30 for all three
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Philosophy and art have been at war since Ancient Greece. Join me for a look into this battle in a three-part series in Prospect Park! Part One looks at the fraught relationship between art and reality – is art a dangerous illusion, an instruction manual, a mirror, or an escape, and can we even tell where art begins and reality ends?

Part Two looks at the relationship between art and authors: is art primarily an expression of emotion, a game where one artist tries to outdo another; should we even be discussing authors at all when discussing art and who gets to make art anyway?

Part Three looks at art and audiences: do people go to art because they are working out psychological issues? Are they establishing themselves as a person of a certain taste? Are they getting brainwashed? Are they getting fleeced? Is art a new Religion? Expect to see Plato, Alexander Pope, Baudrillard, Wordsworth, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, Freud, Marx and Nietzsche weigh in.

Teacher: Geoff Klock

Geoff Klock has a doctorate from Oxford and is a professor at BMCC-CUNY. He teaches philosophy, Shakespeare, canonical poetry in English, parables, and film (mostly David Lynch). He is the author of four academic books on things like television shows and superheroes. He has been cited 290 times, including in the New Yorker and the LA Times and made a Hamlet Mash Up that got 57,000 views.

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