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Aesthetics - ✔✔history of art (greek)
Aisthanesthai "to percieve, to feel"
Aesthetic theory applies to art, music, arch, food, design, fashion
history of art = the evolution of aesthetics, changes in tastes
Role of the Shaman - ✔✔held a religious role in a culture that was preliterate. was
an intermediary to the gods. a translator from one world to the next. invoked the
spirit of possession.
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,Joseph Campbell's 3 Types of Rituals - ✔✔Rituals of Pleasure (food, shelter, sex)
Rituals of Power (conquer, consume)
Rituals of Duty (to god, to tribe)
5 Functions of the 3 Types of Rituals - ✔✔To convey knowledge
To teach, didactic
To influence or control events (rainfall)
To glorify a god, person, event
To entertain and give us pleasure
Constant debated about which one is the most important culturally
What makes rituals unique? - ✔✔They vary from culture to culture and they have
a stylized vocab, language in performative
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,508 BCE - ✔✔Ancient greece founds the worlds first democracy!
except women and slaves can't vote, and it arose because the greeks defeated
the persians at marathon in 480 BCE.
-Allowed the greeks to pursue arts!
534 BCE - ✔✔The first play, in greece
located in a natural amiptheatre and was presented as a part of the festival of
dionysus
-made by thespis
Thespis - ✔✔The first playwright
He wrote the play and performed all the roles
Cult of Dionysus - ✔✔earth cult for peasants, who had annual festivals
God of wine, pleasure, theatre, chaos, disorder
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, Mimesis - Functions of representation - ✔✔Mimesis: imitation of an action
We use it our entire lives to recreate the actions of others. Humans must mimic
each other for a purpose, to better the species so that we do not die out
(aristotle)
Hamartia - ✔✔the tragic or fatal flaw of a tragic hero [greek]
Thymele - ✔✔an altar or sacrificial place for animals before the play, located in
the centure
Hubris - ✔✔undue pride, worst flaw in greek culture [greek]
seen in Oedipus and Troy
Anagnorists - ✔✔recognition, that they release the change in fortune was
because of the themselves and they decide to change their ways
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