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“The ancient Greeks were pretty sure that art is mimesis, or an artificial copy of nature. How does the theory of expressionism answer this question? |
The expression of emotion is a necessary condition of art. |
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State one objection against this theory |
“There is no guarantee that that the audience feels the same emotion as the artist.” (p.395) OR“Not all art intends to be expressive.” |
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“Bell’s theory was that what turns an artifact into a work of art is its display of “significant form”. What is the main problem with this theory? |
Even after reading his book, we still have no idea what “significant form” is supposed to be. |
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“Bell’s theory was that what turns an artifact into a work of art is its display of “significant form”. What is another problem with this theory? |
(Even bad art is art; but Bell only tells us what good art is.) ““Significant form” is an evaluative and not a descriptive term.” |
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“Some formalists have tried to correct this last problem by saying that the function of art is to exhibit significant form, and a necessary and sufficient condition of art is the artist’s intention to exhibit such form.” Yet, “this retreat into intentionalism” is problematic itself. How so? |
Formalism was developed to describe art by only looking at features you could see; but, you can’t seea person’s intentions! |
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“neo-formalism”, according to which the function of art is to marry form and content in satisfying ways. Yet neo-formalism would fail to account for the works of Jackson Pollock and other forms of aleatoric art. Why? |
This artwork lacks content altogether; so, it is impossible to “marry” form and content. |
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The main problem with this theory has to do with the concept of aesthetic experience. I agree with Palmer when he states, My only hesitation here is |
We have no idea of what “aesthetic experience” is supposed to be. |
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is arbitrary and culturally determined.In this view, so-called realistic art is simply art whose code we are used to. What is the problem with this view? |
“If “realism” is arbitrary and culturally determined, why do we have as much luck as we do recognizingpeople, nature, and objects represented in the art of alien cultures?” |
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What is the view that Hyman attacks? |
Hyman attacks the view that “the images produced by artists are illusions. |
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Hyman makes a more convincing argument in this defense of the idea of realism in representative art, an idea that some art critics –perhaps under the influence of writers like Goodman and Gombrich- have abandoned as laughable. Hyman argues, if we concentrate not on blank but on blank, we will find the idea of realism to be accurate and useful |
content technique |
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the concept of ‘art’ is like the concept ‘game’. What kind of concept is the concept of ‘game’? |
Open concept |
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According to Weitz, then, questions like “Is Andy Warhol’s Elvis art?” cannot be answered by appealing to an already established definition; rather a blank is called for: shall we extend the concept “art” to cover his case? Apparently the reasons one can give to justify one’s decision to apply or withhold the title “art” must have to do with what Wittgenstein calls blank |
decision family resemblances |
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Maurice Mandelbaum and Noel Carroll attack “Morris Weitz’s Wittgensteinian analysis of the concept of art”. Caroll proposes his own theory for determining if something is a work of art. What does he call this theory? |
the historical narrative approach |
