English 2200F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mimesis, Vacuum Flask, Botany

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 2200F/G
• Professor: George Donaldson

Document Summary

Representational art represents something in the world a representation of something or someone that exists independent of the work of art: novel about people, portrait of person. Non-representational art: music, does not represent something prior to itself. Assessing the success of work of art according to the faithfulness of what it represents. Plato uses that as one of his fundamental criticisms of art, one of the main reasons why artist banished from ideal society. His representation of thing false, misleading, and dangerous. Literature is representational a mimetic art, imitation of something that exists prior to itself. Plato says lets look at that, and looking at it because it is representational art it is a lie, therefore should not be available to children and citizens to ideal state. Aristotle, like plato, says literature is an imitation, as are some other arts. His first thought is not, what"s the relationship between work and world imitation.