Concepts in aesthetics

In “Behold the Stone Age,” Robert Hughes explores the broader definition of art in the light of the discovery of Cro-Magnon cave art near Avignon. The caves are filled with untouched Paleolithic wall paintings that evoke aesthetic exclamations as great because it’s virgin and intact. Hughes, however, says these discoveries raise “unsettled questions” about when, how, and why these early humans created art. Through Hughes’ use of historical evidence and expert testimonies, we explore the possible…

When I first started the semester, the only real exposure I had to any of the arts was the music I listened to, two art museums and Bharatanatyam, a classical dance from India. Many events and readings later, I find myself with more insight in the arts. I have much more appreciation for all of the various arts, specifically ballet, opera, and the orchestra. Prior to this semester, I always held a biased disinterest in these types of performances due to the fact that I didn 't feel the need to…

Throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, artists including Sol LeWitt, Mel Bochner and Dorothea Rockburne turned to site-specific, drawing-based installations in order to disengage aesthetic experience from the autonomous object, foregrounding the institution as its constitutive framework. Curiously, it appears to have escaped definition in reductive, purely material terms by even the most vociferous advocates of medium-specificity.4 Rather than positing an adherence to the ‘medium’ of drawing…

focus on a single event defining a character’s life philosophy as bildungsromans. Set in nineteenth-century England, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray recounts Dorian Gray’s growth from a young man to an adult in the midst of the growing aesthetic movement, with his friend Lord Henry Wotton introducing him to its morality. After their first encounter, Lord Henry’s hedonistic values corrupt Dorian by causing him to worship youth and beauty, as seen through Dorian’s reaction to their first…

The concept of tradition and the was tradition is preserved comes into play among many other communities of potters. Tradition can be seen as a set of limitations on a potter or an opportunity for a manifestation of communal artistry. If one of the key characteristics defining an artist, is their agency over their creative decisions and a tradition that sets a guideline for how their pots should be made their agency could be said to be removed from the equation. Jon Muller argues that tradition…

As people, it is in our tendency to want to be seen as beautiful in our own skin. By definition, beauty is described as a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight. In another definition it defines it as “a beautiful woman. Many times when you think of beauty it often refers to a woman, and 90% of time, women are the ones who actually care for the definition of beauty or are the face of beauty. The more people explore the…

competitors are doing—rather than reacting to information. 12.The commitment concept says that plans should ________. A. B. C. D. be done for as long a time period as possible extend far enough to meet those commitments made when the plans were developed be done for as short a time period as possible not commit to specifically meeting the goals made when the plans were developed Correct! The commitment concept is important because a company has to live with the good or bad consequences of…

In Pennsylvania, students may not be introduced to the concept of culture until after fifth grade, as the state and national core curriculum shies away from the general topic until middle school. More specifically, the Wallingford-Swarthmore School District specifies that between kindergarten and fifth grade, the children will “explore the themes of neighborhoods and communities,” and then “learn about United States geography and history” (Curriculum & education). Thus, even though…

Part A- three important points that stood out to you in the article. As I was reading this article, I came across three concepts that caught my eye as I was reading. The first concept that stood out to me in the article was that the author called God a designer- creator of the world. Even though I believe God created a perfect world for us to live in, I never pictured him and or categorized him as a designer of the world. I just labeled him as a savior that protects and forgives others, a…

To begin with, something in chapter 10 that I agree with is the concept of autonomy. This is simply the capability to change what is around you such as the lighting or temperature. This concept is further explicated on page 339 of our textbook and I think that it should be an integral part of educations. A way that I have seen this in play is through a multi-genre research project. The teacher allowed my class and I to pick through a number of reporting options over certain topics that we also…