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This week on Weird Studies, Phil and JF explore the intersections of the beautiful and the terrible in art and literature. There is a conventional beauty that calms and placates, and there is a radical beauty which, taking horror\u2019s pale-gloved hand, gives up all pretense to permanence and fixity and joins the danse macabre of our endless becoming. This episode is a preamble to a five-week course of lectures and discussions starting June 20th on Weirdosphere, JF and Phil\u2019s new online learning platform. For more information and to enroll in The Beauty and the Horror, visit www.weirdosphere.org.

REFERENCES

JF Martel, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice, the audiobook, with a new introduction written and read by Donna Tartt.
\nDenis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two
\nWilliam Blake, \u201cThe Tyger\u201d
\nJunichiro Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows
\nSteven Spielberg, Raiders of the Lost Ark
\nWalter Pater, The Renaissance
\nDavid Lynch, Twin Peaks: The Return
\nAnna Aikin, \u201cOn the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror
\nDonna Tartt, The Secret History
\nKeiji Nishitani, Religion and Nothingness
\nCharles Baudelaire, \u201cLe Voyage\u201d
\nFranz Schubert, \u201cDeath and the Maiden\u201d Quartet
\nFranz Schubert, Piano Sonata in C major, D. 840
\nJ.R.R. Tolkein, The Hobbit