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Art History
Undergraduate 1
11/01/2012

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aesthetic enocunters
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are sensory immediate noniferential that are then refined by sustained contemplation (Not by extraphenomenal factors)
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aesthetic judgements
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are part of both the artwork and art appreciation/theory/interpretation
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Baumgarten
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aesthetic is sensitive cognition
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Kant
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it is the free play within the sensus communis, of the creative imagination and of understanding
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criteria of encounters and judgements
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order,harmony, balance, evocation
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intentional fallacy
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the design or intention of a creator of a work is neither available nor desirable as a standard for determining the success of an artwork. It is a fallacy to try to rely on artist-intention
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artworlds
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intentionality,purposiveness,framing
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art is not
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beauty,power,sacred,absolute
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connections to culture thorugh
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metaphor,allegory, and narrative
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neoclassical
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order, harmony, proportion, moderation
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romantic view of art
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in which the creative imagination, seen asa character trait of the "genius" the original artist, is the inherent impetus for artful creation- cultural moment, characterized by a local value system
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epistemological context
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artworks and thus the art framing them are only possible within the context of their cultural moment, characterized by a local value system
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Imitation Theory
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- presupposes a connection among various “levels” of reality and experience (i.e. the artwork imitates something” – this connectivity is the “truth” of things; this is a VERTICAL sense of the world, privileging skill and technoque (techne) in copying or re-producing elements (seen or unseen) of the world; this is its frame
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Reality Theory
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presupposes no such connection; it privileges creativity as such, claiming that the “artwork” emanates from a creative imagination but is no longer connected to it; it is not imitative but autonomous
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