Art In Context Flashcards
Traditionalism?
Too wide or too narrow understanding of art
Modernism?
Simply too descriptive or unduly selective
List the fine arts
Painting, Sculpture Architecture Poetry (literature) Music Dance
What is the issue or pleasure in traditionalism?
Needs to be qualified
Many things cause pleasure that are not art
A traditionalist needs to appeal to beauty
Issue of beauty in traditionalism
Too much criterion
How can art and nature be distinguished?
Issue of aesthetic intention in traditionalism
Art is made with intention to provide an aesthetic experience (too narrow)
Overall issue of traditionalism?
Beauty and pleasure aren’t enough to understand art without aesthetic intention
Excludes found art or performance (Brillo box Warhol 1964)
Outline (radical) modernism
The perceivable features of a piece doesn’t make it an artwork, but the theoretical framework does
What is the concept dependence thesis?
- Art exists in a culture of the members of the culture have a concept of it
- This implies there is a fixed meaning of art
- Also implies that the culture sees itself as a culture
Counter to CD?
Shakespeare has no concept of fine arts yet his work is considered as such
Outline modernism rejecting CD THESIS
Claiming the concept of art is crucial to possessing it is a view dependent on theories
CD only works if modernism does
Link incidental art and the cd thesis
If modernism and cd is abandoned then the perceivable properties infer that they are incidental periodical artefacts
Art without ‘att’
If we abandon cd then we accept cultures can posses art even if they have no concept of it
List examples relevant
Fontaine - Duchamp 1917
Black Painting - Reindhurt 1960-6
1&3 Chairs - Kosutg 1965
Cave paintings
