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26 Cards in this Set
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Plato |
-critiques mimesis - threatening/can stir emotions - not as important as truth -philosophy sets you free -idea, object, painting/representation - gets farther from the truth - artists have the easiest job -art is a copy of a copy -image of the cave - education/lack of - sun/blinding = new reality
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Aristotle |
-tragedy and why it affects us = catharsis - release of emotion, balance -does not agree with Plato - catharsis from art releases dangerous emotions/threats -art has serious value - reveals real essence -mimesis creates an emotional distance: we know it's not real |
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relationship between art and philosophy |
-imitation/illusion -farther away from truth -but can reveal important enlightenments -philosophers go in the opp. direction - closer to the truth -Cave: art as illusion/representation of truth -Plato - philosophy is better -Aristotle - philosophy and art can work together to reveal more |
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imitation |
-mimesis -representation -true form -idea, object, art -Plato and Aristotle |
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catharsis and tragedy, distance |
Aristotle |
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Image of the Cave |
Plato -realizing the difference between shadows and reality -image in itself - even that is not the truth |
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Kant |
-judgment of taste is SUBJECTIVE (subject not object) -DISINTERESTEDNESS = delight sep from interest -UNIVERSALITY -physical observation, agreeableness, beauty -taste and beauty = agreeableness and beauty -different from each other |
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disinterestedness and universality -fact, personal taste/agreeableness (gratifies), universality/beauty (pleases) -subjective |
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Hume |
-no real rules - morality -OBJECTIVE (object not subject) -beauty and agreeable overlap |
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5 aspects of a reliable expert |
1. delicate sense 2. practice/experience in the field 3. experience in comparison 4. free(r) from prejudice 5. good sense (design/reasoning)
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standard of taste, experts, objective |
Hume |
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Schiller |
-opp of Plato - we can only become free through beauty and art (Plato - only philosophy can set us free - opp directions) -drives -play drive = sense + form drives -desire for freedom -imitation once known is not beautiful
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sense, form, play drive, freedom -opp of Plato -semblance (doesn't need to rep. reality) |
Schiller |
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Hegel |
-artistic over natural (unlike Kant) with Schiller -richer beauty in it bc it is created not natural -man-made skill/imitation is still beautiful -real art is philosophy itself -art and history *symbolic - in search of an idea *classical - means/interprets itself - EXTERNAL *romantic - inwardness - INTERNAL |
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-artistic over natural beauty -art history (sym/cla/rom) -external to internal
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Hegel |
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Tolstoy |
-art as infection (pop of disint) -mode of communication/connection -art is not: simple/meaningless, art for art's sake, presenting reality, simple -art is: new idea important to man, able to be understood (a certain simplicity), an inner need to create |
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infection, inner need/understandable/important ideas |
Tolstoy |
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Heidegger |
-what it means to be -elements of truth in art -directly affects a culture and its meaning: used by the culture, when not any more, it has lost its equipment/use - becomes a mere thing -artwork directly to the artist - art creates them both -asking questions about the art - giving it life -art as equipment -art builds culture |
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equipment/use, relationship of culture/art, art/artist/artwork, art builds culture |
Heidegger |
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Dewey |
-a process of undergoing -art as experience -reward of interaction = experience, full participation -art = materials/energy used to expand man's life -SOCIAL -social context and functional role -art comes from the culture - culture builds art -art in the everyday (no high and low) |
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art as experience, SOCIAL, undergoing, function/social context, culture builds art |
Dewey |
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Collingwood |
-art as mental -true art is imagined -all physical objects are representations of the imagined -art is the manifestation of emotion -imaginative empathy -productive force of art = artist's unconscious mind -MAKING PHYSICALLY = FABRICATION -CREATING THE PLAN MENTALLY = CREATION |
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art as mental, imagination, creation/fabrication, reproduction |
Collingwood |
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team FOR ART |
-Aristotle -Schiller -Hegel -Dewey -Tolstoy -Heidegger |
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team AGAINST ART |
-Plato -Kant/Hume -Collingwood - mental is better -Benjamin |
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Benjamin |
-mechanical reproduction -unique distance -aura of being there |