Final Flashcards
What does Plato say about Imitation?
Artist imitate appearances, not reality
What does Plato think about artists role as citizens?
They corrupt others
They should be barred
Aristotle’s
view on Tragedy?
Highest form of art
Aristotle
What is the character of a tragic hero?
Relatable, but better than we are.
Aristotle
Define Tragic Catharsis
Imitation of an action, dramatically, which arouses pity/fear and subsequent catharsis of those emotions
Carroll
Representation
Stands for something
Carroll
Imitation
Looks like something
Carroll
Neo-Representationalism
Just has to be ABOUT something. To have a subject which it makes some comment..
Music is considered neo-representational
Carroll
neo-represenationalism’s limits?
If a work possesses a property, it doesnt mean it is about this property
(Sad music might not be about sadness)
Shaftesbury
sense of beauty vs moral sense
Beauty is valued by the mind in a similar sense as morality is measured by the mind
Kant:
Aesthetic judgement vs cognitive and moral judgements
Aesthetic judgements are subjective
Cognitive judgements are objective
Kant
Disinterested
Indifferent to the existence of the object
Kant
What kind of judgement is “interested”?
Agreeable
Duchamp
“Retinal” painting
Retinal painting is about the “physical aspect” of painting
Duchamp
painting in service of the mind
“Recreating ideas in painting…
ideas, not merely visual products.”
Wordsworth
“Permanence”
Working with natural human interests.. “humble and rustic life as it’s subject matter”
Wordsworth:
Define “nature”
Human feelings that are unadultured by the big city
Wordsworth:
Poetic language?
Natural human emotional truths carried in a live way by passion
Hegel
The end of art?
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.
Hegel
Art, philosophy, or religion?
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
Hegel
symbolic, classical, and romantic arts
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
What is Tolstoy’s criteria for good art?
Infectiousness
Comprehensible
Emotional transmission
Plato
Inspiration vs knowledge?
Two different ways of making art:
Artistic talent comes from inspiration.
Artistic skill comes from knowledge.
Plato
Highest forms of life?
Artistic and philosophical.. it brings up the truths of the soul
Kant
Genius?
Someone whom nature makes the rules through.. 😻
Kant
Taste?
The faculty which the artist considers whether the form is adequate to his IDEAs .
(BONUS)
Kantian Taste vs Platonian Knowledge?
Both rely on skill!
Nelson Goodman
Autographic vs Allographic?
Autographic arts can be traced back to the hand of the artist,
Allographic arts a redesigned for proliferation
Nietzsche
Apollonian ?
Structural
“Judged”
Like Platonian “skill”
Nietzsche
Dionysian drive
Intoxicating reconciliation between man and “nature”
Nietzsche
and optimism
There needs to be a “cheerful” face to keep us from being “burnt” from the truth
Nietzsche
Socratic aesthetics
Euripides’ way where reason replaces “aesthetic ideas”
He is replaces Apollonian vs Dionysian with
Socratic vs Dionysian
Noel Carroll
Moderate Moralism
Problematic morals CAN take away from aesthetic values in CERTAIN types of work
Noel Carroll
Radical autonomism
Art is strictly autonomous
Noel Carroll
Radical Moralism
Art should only be discussed from a moral point of view
Noel Carroll MODERATE AUTONOMISM (lol)
Art isnt better because of it’s morals or worse because of it’s moral defects
Walter Benjamin
War?
Only war can mobilize the art and technology of a society into a mass movement
Walter Benjamin
The aura?
The exclusive quality of a work in it’s original form
Walter Benjamin
Change of sense perception in the “age of mechanical…”
Movies move too quick to contemplate.
Art is similarly difficult to contemplate because tere is so much production and reproduction
Arthur Danto
Modernism
No longer about imitation.
Art is about philosophical “Knowing”
Arthur Danto
The age of manifestos
The age of isms..
Art stops being about “that one single ISM”
Arthur Danto
Pluralism of styles
Art raises the question “who am i?”
Somehow they all gravitate toward the questions of existence
