Exam 7: Aesthetics

Do you believe that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder"? Do you think judgments about art are matters of personal taste, or are there objective standards for gauging aesthetic worth? Explain.

Hume says that the essential difference between the historian and the poet is that the one tells us what happened and the other the sort of thing that would happen.

Subjectivists argue that criteria for judging aesthetic value are derived from a priori principles.

Critique Curt John Ducasse's subjectivist view of art.

What characteristic(s) makes something art? Does representation make it art? Expression? Form?

A prominent view is that an object has aesthetic value if it

Subjectivists insist that works of art have objective properties by which we can judge their aesthetic goodness or badness.

The purging of the emotions of pity and fear by experiencing them vicariously in a theatrical context is known as mimesis.

Hume thinks that each mind perceives _______ beauty.

Aesthetic values are examined in the field of philosophy known as

Feminist artists sought to create a dialogue between the viewer and the artwork through the inclusion of women's perspective.

Aristotle and Hume primarily disagree about whether

Formalism is the view that art has no form and cannot be defined.

According to Hume, there are no objective standards by which we can tell whether one work of art is superior to another.

Is it ever appropriate to ban works of art? If so, when and why? If not, why?

Arthur Danto was a(n)

According to Hume the foundation of the "rules" of literary composition is

What is the feminist art movement? How has it changed the contemporary the art world and art itself?

Gardner argues that we can never have objective standards for judging aesthetic value.

Subjectivists would argue that