RTA 310 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Fourth Wall, Mimesis, Techne

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Rejecting methodological reductionism no essentialism: art tells us our relationship between media and culture. Plato (360 bc: did not hold artists in high regard, the true, the good , and the beautiful science, Philosophy, aesthetics: beauty was at the level of truth/justice, adhering to the cosmos, art was techne, a craft/skill, and was not made for art"s sake. Painters/sculptors had low social status - craftsmen. The everyday wasn"t considered beautiful (eg: landscapes: more realistic scenes considered base/unacceptable. Rather, biblical/godly things relied on platonic idea that beauty is eternal (hence the 13865213848 paintings of biblical scenes and churches from that time) Make american absurdist again : fooling the eye, art playing with the notion that someone is looking at it. Eg: breaking 4th wall, performance art, banksy. Changing notions of beauty: self-re exive notions that beauty is personal and subjective was not always the case. Aisthesis greek for perception where aesthetics comes from (pleasure in perception) - started looking at.

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