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16 Cards in this Set
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What is Art? |
A Skill, An Act of Beauty &/or Has a specific meaning |
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Plato |
Taught by Socrates, Started the Academy, Accused theatre of corrupting people |
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Aristotle |
Plato's most popular pupil, Started Lyceum, Wrote "The Poetics", His most famous pupil was Alexander the Great |
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
Defining the word art is difficult, Felt that defining art introduced boundaries and limitations, instead of defining art-point out family resemblances |
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Things that convey art |
1. A form of human expression 2. Has a subject 3. Involves a medium 4. Has Form 5. Provides a Perception of Order 6. Provokes Reaction |
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The Human Experience |
Theatre is the only art in which the subject and medium are the same - The Human Experience |
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What is Theatre? |
Theatre comes from the Greek word theatron meaning "seeing place" |
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Peter Brook - The Empty Space |
1. An empty space. 2. Someone to walk across that space. 3. Someone to watch the person walk through the space. |
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What is Drama? |
Comes from the Greek word dran or dromenon, "to take action, to do, or to make" |
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Year of Talking Pictures |
1927 |
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Playwright's medium |
Theatre |
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Director's medium |
Movies |
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Copyright |
a legal guarantee... |
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Public Domain |
Once a playwright has been dead for 70 years |
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Royalties |
a fee paid for the work given (similar to rent) |
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Aesthetics |
The study of beauty |
