I emphatically recommend any and all of the lectures on esthetics by Tore Boeckmann. I don’t know of anyone who has a fuller grasp of the Objectivist esthetics than Mr. Boeckmann, and his lectures have provided me with answers to questions that had previously puzzled me for years. The distinguishing characteristic of Mr. Boeckmann’s lectures is their conceptual scope. He does not only apply Ayn Rand’s principles of literature to the analysis of specific artworks, but “chews” these principles and integrates them into a broader perspective on the nature and production of art in general, beyond the scope of literature.
A good place to start might be his lecture “The Stylized Soul in Romantic Literature,” which is an intensive discussion of what stylization is and how artists go about it.
