A former graduate school dean, Dr. Vaillancourt has taught aesthetics for almost 40 years, and won 11 teacher of the year awards/commendations.
(See my biography page for more information).
| Applied Aesthetics | |||
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Applied aesthetics (dancing, painting, singing, sculpting, acting) creates mini workshops that help students enhance their ability to perceive more beauty and more details in the world around them. |
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| The Genius Next Door Art Project: Original Arts Research in the College Classroom | |||
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The paper describes the process of organizing forty college students to conduct original research, intended for publication, on the beauty of the works of an undiscovered artist. |
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| Beauty and Healing | |||
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Advances in affective neuroscience, especially psychoneuroimmunology, suggest that beauty experiences boost the immune system and, therefore, enhance the healing process. |
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| The Family Grows: Beauty in Latin America | |||
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Beauty in Latin America has evolved over the past one hundred years through three stages—Utopian Roots, Theoretical Constructions, Critical Parings—and each stage reveals the ineffability of beauty. |
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| Mexico’s Antonio Caso on Beauty: Pleasure and Transcendence | |||
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Mexico's Antonio Caso presents the traditional binary of beauty—beauty is a subjective experience with objective claims—in a fascinating and fruitful manner, immensely beneficial to any study of beauty. |
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| Using the Arts to Impact Society: How the Art of Memoir Preserves the Legacy of Women Religious | |||
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This paper describes how Loyola University Chicago aesthetics students employed the memoir artform with retired women religious to contribute to the creation of a community memory for the sisters. |
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| Roots and Routes of the Polish Memoir: Creating a Distinct Memoir Ontology | |||
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This article examines the roots of the Polish memoir tradition and the routes it took to establish its unique ontology, which should rank it as a leading memoir tradition. |
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