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23 paź 2007 · One distinctively modern, conventionalist, sort of definition focuses on art’s institutional features, emphasizing the way art changes over time, modern works that appear to break radically with all traditional art, the relational properties of artworks that depend on works’ relations to art history, art genres, etc. – more broadly, on ...
- Beardsley’s Aesthetics
1. Background. In Aesthetics, Beardsley develops a...
- German, in the 18th Century
1. Leibniz and Wolff: Perfection and Truth. The traditional...
- Aristotle’s Aesthetics
1. On Poets: How to Judge Poetry?. This work, a dialogue in...
- Social Institutions
A typical definition is that proffered by Jonathan Turner...
- Aesthetic Judgment
1. The Judgment of Taste. What is a judgment of taste? Kant...
- Goodman’s Aesthetics
Bibliography A. Primary Works (in Aesthetics) A.1 Books....
- Beardsley’s Aesthetics
Art is something that stimulates an individual's thoughts, emotions, beliefs, or ideas through the senses. Works of art can be explicitly made for this purpose or interpreted on the basis of images or objects.
Art, a visual object or experience consciously created through an expression of skill or imagination. The term ‘art’ encompasses diverse media such as painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, decorative arts, photography, and installation. Learn more about art in this article.
2 wrz 2024 · There's no universal definition of visual art, though a consensus has emerged that art is the conscious creation of something beautiful or meaningful using skill and imagination. The definition and perceived value of works of art have changed throughout history and in different cultures.
ART definition: 1. the making of objects, images, music, etc. that are beautiful or that express feelings: 2. the…. Learn more.
23 paź 2007 · Any definition of art has to square with the following uncontroversial facts: (i) entities (artifacts or performances) intentionally endowed by their makers with a significant degree of aesthetic interest, often surpassing that of most everyday objects, exist in virtually every known human culture; (ii) such entities, and traditions devoted to ...
«Is art merely the "imitation of the good," as the ancient Greek philosopher Plato wrote in his Republic, or the "lie that makes us realize truth," as the Spanish artist Picasso contended? Does art serve a utilitarian, religious, or aesthetic purpose, or no purpose at all?»
