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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


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

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

imitation

-mimesis


-representation


-true form


-idea, object, art


-Plato and Aristotle

catharsis and tragedy, distance

Aristotle

Image of the Cave

Plato


-realizing the difference between shadows and reality


-image in itself - even that is not the truth

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

disinterestedness and universality


-fact, personal taste/agreeableness (gratifies), universality/beauty (pleases)


-subjective

Kant

Hume

-no real rules - morality


-OBJECTIVE (object not subject)


-beauty and agreeable overlap

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)


standard of taste, experts, objective

Hume

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


sense, form, play drive, freedom


-opp of Plato


-semblance (doesn't need to rep. reality)

Schiller

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

-artistic over natural beauty


-art history (sym/cla/rom)


-external to internal


Hegel

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

infection, inner need/understandable/important ideas

Tolstoy

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

equipment/use, relationship of culture/art, art/artist/artwork, art builds culture

Heidegger

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)

art as experience, SOCIAL, undergoing, function/social context, culture builds art

Dewey

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

art as mental, imagination, creation/fabrication, reproduction

Collingwood

team FOR ART

-Aristotle


-Schiller


-Hegel


-Dewey


-Tolstoy


-Heidegger

team AGAINST ART

-Plato


-Kant/Hume


-Collingwood - mental is better


-Benjamin

Benjamin

-mechanical reproduction


-unique distance


-aura of being there