PHIl 1361 Midterm Review Questions with Verified Solutions Graded A+
Ur-Art - Answers For Levinson's theory of art, what predates art?
Agreeable Art - Answers For Kant, representational paintings that gave immediate pleasure to
the viewer, but did not provide pleasure from reflecting on the work, were classified as what?
18th Century - Answers When did the word "art" develop as a way to distinguish between fine
arts from crafted goods?
Significant Form - Answers What gives rise to "aesthetic emotions" according to Clive Bell?
Proponents of the expressionist theory of art - Answers Who would have to 'bite the bullet' and
say that nothing displayed in an art museum is art?
False - Answers According to theories that attempt to define art via aesthetic function, anything
that provides an aesthetic experience is art.
Camera Photography - Answers What technological development inspired Impressionist and
Post-impressionist paintings?
False - Answers If it is impossible to have a fixed definition for art, then it is impossible to have
a concept of art.
None of these comes first - Answers For the institutional theory of art, what must come about
first?
Craft - Answers Under the expressionist theory of art, how would you classify a sonata that was
composed with the intention of eliciting a sense of sorrow and longing?
Restored works are considered to be the same even though their physical properties are
different. - Answers The physical-object hypothesis doesn't work for all singular works because
The musicians created different songs because the songs were created when the sound
structure was indicated. - Answers According to Levinson's contextualist view, if two musicians
each wrote a song that were note for note identical, then
True - Answers Margolis argues that if all tokens of a work are destroyed (as well as all means
of making new tokens), then the type will cease to exist.
Autographic - Answers For Nelson Goodman, a work is __________________ if a copy of that work,
no matter how perfect, does not count as a genuine instance.
The nature of art - Answers The ontology of art is primarily concerned with:
You can't say the work was created - Answers What issue seems to arise if one views music as
only a series of notes? (That is, if one thinks that the musical work is the sound structure.)
Ur-Art - Answers For Levinson's theory of art, what predates art?
Agreeable Art - Answers For Kant, representational paintings that gave immediate pleasure to
the viewer, but did not provide pleasure from reflecting on the work, were classified as what?
18th Century - Answers When did the word "art" develop as a way to distinguish between fine
arts from crafted goods?
Significant Form - Answers What gives rise to "aesthetic emotions" according to Clive Bell?
Proponents of the expressionist theory of art - Answers Who would have to 'bite the bullet' and
say that nothing displayed in an art museum is art?
False - Answers According to theories that attempt to define art via aesthetic function, anything
that provides an aesthetic experience is art.
Camera Photography - Answers What technological development inspired Impressionist and
Post-impressionist paintings?
False - Answers If it is impossible to have a fixed definition for art, then it is impossible to have
a concept of art.
None of these comes first - Answers For the institutional theory of art, what must come about
first?
Craft - Answers Under the expressionist theory of art, how would you classify a sonata that was
composed with the intention of eliciting a sense of sorrow and longing?
Restored works are considered to be the same even though their physical properties are
different. - Answers The physical-object hypothesis doesn't work for all singular works because
The musicians created different songs because the songs were created when the sound
structure was indicated. - Answers According to Levinson's contextualist view, if two musicians
each wrote a song that were note for note identical, then
True - Answers Margolis argues that if all tokens of a work are destroyed (as well as all means
of making new tokens), then the type will cease to exist.
Autographic - Answers For Nelson Goodman, a work is __________________ if a copy of that work,
no matter how perfect, does not count as a genuine instance.
The nature of art - Answers The ontology of art is primarily concerned with:
You can't say the work was created - Answers What issue seems to arise if one views music as
only a series of notes? (That is, if one thinks that the musical work is the sound structure.)
