Final

Question 1

What does Plato say about Imitation?

Answer 1

Artist imitate appearances, not reality

Question 2

What does Plato think about artists role as citizens?

Answer 2

They corrupt others

They should be barred

Question 3

Aristotle’s

view on Tragedy?

Answer 3

Highest form of art

Question 4

Aristotle

What is the character of a tragic hero?

Answer 4

Relatable, but better than we are.

Question 5

Aristotle

Define Tragic Catharsis

Answer 5

Imitation of an action, dramatically, which arouses pity/fear and subsequent catharsis of those emotions

Question 6

Carroll

Representation

Answer 6

Stands for something

Question 7

Carroll

Imitation

Answer 7

Looks like something

Question 8

Carroll

Neo-Representationalism

Answer 8

Just has to be ABOUT something. To have a subject which it makes some comment..

Music is considered neo-representational

Question 9

Carroll

neo-represenationalism’s limits?

Answer 9

If a work possesses a property, it doesnt mean it is about this property
(Sad music might not be about sadness)

Question 10

Shaftesbury

sense of beauty vs moral sense

Answer 10

Beauty is valued by the mind in a similar sense as morality is measured by the mind

Question 11

Kant:

Aesthetic judgement vs cognitive and moral judgements

Answer 11

Aesthetic judgements are subjective

Cognitive judgements are objective

Question 12

Kant

Disinterested

Answer 12

Indifferent to the existence of the object

Question 13

Kant

What kind of judgement is “interested”?

Answer 13

Agreeable

Question 14

Duchamp

“Retinal” painting

Answer 14

Retinal painting is about the “physical aspect” of painting

Question 15

Duchamp

painting in service of the mind

Answer 15

“Recreating ideas in painting…

ideas, not merely visual products.”

Question 16

Wordsworth

“Permanence”

Answer 16

Working with natural human interests.. “humble and rustic life as it’s subject matter”

Question 17

Wordsworth:

Define “nature”

Answer 17

Human feelings that are unadultured by the big city

Question 18

Wordsworth:

Poetic language?

Answer 18

Natural human emotional truths carried in a live way by passion

Question 19

Hegel

The end of art?

Answer 19

Art is one mode (together with religion and philosophy) “through which the Divine, the profoundest interest of mankind, and spiritual truths of widest range, are brought home to consciousness and expressed.”

… religion and philosophy are said to eclipse the usefulness of art though.

Question 20

Hegel

Art, philosophy, or religion?

Answer 20

Art is, in it’s “highest possibilities, a thing of the past”

Religion is said to function much less than it used to..

And Philosophy is said to do the job the best today

Question 21

Hegel

symbolic, classical, and romantic arts

Answer 21

Relates to the representation of an Idea

Symbolic: isnt clear about it’s own ideas
Classical: very realistic manifestation of clear ideas. Is beautiful
Romantic: goes beyond realism to idealism.. can be ugly

Question 22

What is Tolstoy’s criteria for good art?

Answer 22

Infectiousness
Comprehensible
Emotional transmission

Question 23

Plato

Inspiration vs knowledge?

Answer 23

Two different ways of making art:
Artistic talent comes from inspiration.
Artistic skill comes from knowledge.

Question 24

Plato

Highest forms of life?

Answer 24

Artistic and philosophical.. it brings up the truths of the soul

Question 25

Kant

Genius?

Answer 25

Someone whom nature makes the rules through.. 😻

Question 26

Kant

Taste?

Answer 26

The faculty which the artist considers whether the form is adequate to his IDEAs .

Question 27

(BONUS)

Kantian Taste vs Platonian Knowledge?

Answer 27

Both rely on skill!

Question 28

Nelson Goodman

Autographic vs Allographic?

Answer 28

Autographic arts can be traced back to the hand of the artist,
Allographic arts a redesigned for proliferation

Question 29

Nietzsche

Apollonian ?

Answer 29

Structural
“Judged”
Like Platonian “skill”

Question 30

Nietzsche

Dionysian drive

Answer 30

Intoxicating reconciliation between man and “nature”

Question 31

Nietzsche

and optimism

Answer 31

There needs to be a “cheerful” face to keep us from being “burnt” from the truth

Question 32

Nietzsche

Socratic aesthetics

Answer 32

Euripides’ way where reason replaces “aesthetic ideas”
He is replaces Apollonian vs Dionysian with
Socratic vs Dionysian

Question 33

Noel Carroll

Moderate Moralism

Answer 33

Problematic morals CAN take away from aesthetic values in CERTAIN types of work

Question 34

Noel Carroll

Radical autonomism

Answer 34

Art is strictly autonomous

Question 35

Noel Carroll

Radical Moralism

Answer 35

Art should only be discussed from a moral point of view

Question 36

Noel Carroll 
MODERATE AUTONOMISM (lol)

Answer 36

Art isnt better because of it’s morals or worse because of it’s moral defects

Question 37

Walter Benjamin

War?

Answer 37

Only war can mobilize the art and technology of a society into a mass movement

Question 38

Walter Benjamin

The aura?

Answer 38

The exclusive quality of a work in it’s original form

Question 39

Walter Benjamin

Change of sense perception in the “age of mechanical…”

Answer 39

Movies move too quick to contemplate.

Art is similarly difficult to contemplate because tere is so much production and reproduction

Question 40

Arthur Danto

Modernism

Answer 40

No longer about imitation.

Art is about philosophical “Knowing”

Question 41

Arthur Danto

The age of manifestos

Answer 41

The age of isms..

Art stops being about “that one single ISM”

Question 42

Arthur Danto

Pluralism of styles

Answer 42

Art raises the question “who am i?”

Somehow they all gravitate toward the questions of existence