COMM/RELS 257 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS 2025\26 |
GUARANTEED ACCURATE ANSWERS
Terms in this set (43)
- Art is created each time someone has an experience
- Aesthetic experience - perceiving, enjoying art/beauty; a set of
Dewey principles underlying and guiding the work of an artist or art
movement; sensation or perception
- Art as communication/language; window to another culture
1. Surface: describe what you see
2.Intended Meaning: author explicit intent/what are they selling?
How do they sell it?; lifestyle/consumer oriented; product
Firth's Method
oriented
3.Cultural/Ideological Meaning: relies on cultural background;
can be unintentional
- Theory of forms: abstract/perfect; transcendent of this world
- Art is a copy of an imperfect copy
- Mimesis - imitation
Plato
- Ban artists from the state
- Tragedy confuses audiences because of values; virtues are
not always reward
, - Tragedies are good: catharsis - emotional cleansing of
Aristotle spectator
- Prefers tragedies where good people mistakenly do bad things
- Andy Warhol's Brillo Boxes: no way art has to look; no right
way to make art; difference between art and non-art is not
visual, but conceptual; meaning is a matter for philosophers
to discover - no way that art should look
- Open Theory - anything can be art
- Art embodies meaning; can communicate thoughts
and feelings through a physical meaning
Danto
- Art and philosophy are linked together; not independent
spheres; when philosophy was dealing with pluralism, art is as
well
- Modern art - artists choosing a medium and stuck with it; "this
form is the best form of art and it's going to lead to a
greater
thing"; picked a particular style and argued that this style is the
best way one should depict art
GUARANTEED ACCURATE ANSWERS
Terms in this set (43)
- Art is created each time someone has an experience
- Aesthetic experience - perceiving, enjoying art/beauty; a set of
Dewey principles underlying and guiding the work of an artist or art
movement; sensation or perception
- Art as communication/language; window to another culture
1. Surface: describe what you see
2.Intended Meaning: author explicit intent/what are they selling?
How do they sell it?; lifestyle/consumer oriented; product
Firth's Method
oriented
3.Cultural/Ideological Meaning: relies on cultural background;
can be unintentional
- Theory of forms: abstract/perfect; transcendent of this world
- Art is a copy of an imperfect copy
- Mimesis - imitation
Plato
- Ban artists from the state
- Tragedy confuses audiences because of values; virtues are
not always reward
, - Tragedies are good: catharsis - emotional cleansing of
Aristotle spectator
- Prefers tragedies where good people mistakenly do bad things
- Andy Warhol's Brillo Boxes: no way art has to look; no right
way to make art; difference between art and non-art is not
visual, but conceptual; meaning is a matter for philosophers
to discover - no way that art should look
- Open Theory - anything can be art
- Art embodies meaning; can communicate thoughts
and feelings through a physical meaning
Danto
- Art and philosophy are linked together; not independent
spheres; when philosophy was dealing with pluralism, art is as
well
- Modern art - artists choosing a medium and stuck with it; "this
form is the best form of art and it's going to lead to a
greater
thing"; picked a particular style and argued that this style is the
best way one should depict art
