PHIL 2790H Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Post-Impressionism, The Potato Eaters
24 Sep 2018
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Standard- has to have a standard property of a specific category. Variable the color red, is a variable category. Non- standard property- tell us what a given category does not involve. Danto the artworld: a critique of the imitation theory (cid:862)if a (cid:373)i(cid:396)(cid:396)o(cid:396)-i(cid:373)age of o is i(cid:374)deed a(cid:374) i(cid:373)itatio(cid:374) of o, the(cid:374) if a(cid:396)t is i(cid:373)itatio(cid:374), (cid:373)i(cid:396)(cid:396)o(cid:396) i(cid:373)ages a(cid:396)e a(cid:396)t(cid:863) (417) Imitation theory is therefore inadequate as a definition, and its insufficiency only made apparent with photography (possibly a straw man argument) If we have a theory of what art is, nut things are created that seem to be art but that they theory cannot accommodate, we need a new theory: e. g post- impressionist paintings va(cid:374) gogh(cid:859)s potato- eaters. The post-impressionist won a victory in ontology: a new way to understand art , after the imitation theory, the are creations of new things, not imitations.
