1. We will continue to discuss Nehamas on Wednesday. After that, we'll begin chapter 2 of our text ("What is a work of Art," by Hudson-Miles and Broadey).
2. The latter is divided into 6 sections, each addressing briefly a distinct approach to understanding/defining art. The first approaches art as representational or imitative.
Questions for consideration (along with any others you raise):
1.
a. What definitional concerns are raised in the initial paragraphs of the chapter?
b. Contrast Plato's characterization of art with Aristotle's.
c. What's the difference between imitation and representation?
d. What is conceptual art?
2.
a. Distinguish modernism from postmodernism.
b. Describe the modernist notion of significant form (Bell, Fry, Kant, Greenberg).
c. What do postmodernists say about "pure form"?
3.
a. Describe Tolstoy's expressivist view of art.
b. What is Collingwood's critique of Tolstoy?
c. How do Deleuze and Giattari extend the notion of expression?
4.
a. What is disinterested interest?
b. What is Dickie's critique of disinterested interest? Do you agree?
5.
a. What is the nature and role of the "artworld" (Dickie and Danto)?
b. How does art lose its " aura," according to Benjamin? Is that an unambiguously good thing in your view?
6.
a. How does Nietzsche's anti-essentialism differ from Kant's conception of the free play of the imagination underlying disinterested interest?
b. How/why does Ranciere poloticize aesthetics?
c. Must -- as the anti-essentialists and deconstructionists maintain -- al concept of art's essence remain " blind to the sensuous particularity and heterogeneity of works of art?
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