Draft:Aristos (publication)

Aristos
DisciplineArts Review
LanguageEnglish
Edited byLouis Torres and Michelle Marder Kamhi
Publication details
History1982–present
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Aristos is an online review of the arts co-edited by Louis Torres and Michelle Marder Kamhi.[1]

Founded as a six-page print journal by Louis Torres in 1982, Magazines for Libraries recommended Aristos as a “scholarly but gutsy little periodical," whose feature articles carried "more weight than those found in more substantial periodicals."[2][3]

Publication was temporarily suspended in 1997 so the editors could finish writing What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand[4]—based on a series of articles they had written for Aristos. In January 2002, they suspended publication indefinitely, to devote full time to book-related projects. They continued to publish material comparable to that formerly offered in Aristos on the aristos.org website—much of it under What Art Is Online. In January 2003, they launched the online version of Aristos.[2]

Aristos offers "a unique critical voice, advocating objective standards in arts scholarship and criticism".[5] Rejecting both modernism and postmodernism, it publishes contemporary work "that, like the great art of past centuries, is concerned with fundamental human values, and is both intelligible and well crafted."[5] Its editorial viewpoint is broadly informed by the theory of art philosopher-novelist Ayn Rand outlined in the first four essays of The Romantic Manifesto.[citation needed]

References edit

  1. ^ "About the Editors". Aristos. Retrieved 2024-01-12.
  2. ^ a b "Aristos . . . Online". Aristos. January 2003. Retrieved 2024-01-12.
  3. ^ "Aristos: Information for Librarians". Aristos. Retrieved 2024-01-12.
  4. ^ Torres, Louis; Kamhi, Michelle Marder (2000). What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand. Chicago: Open Court. ISBN 978-0812693720.
  5. ^ a b "About Aristos". Aristos. Retrieved 2024-01-12.

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