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| Society's relationship with beauty |
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| Propaganda is an art work that is political but participates in beauty. One of the lowest art forms |
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| Why does art have content? |
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| It'd be meaningless, otherwise. |
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| cave paintings at Altemira, Spain & Lascaux, France |
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| What is most of our creativity influenced by? |
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| What is Plato famous for? |
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"The Republic"
The World of Forms
Est. "The Academy" (the first formal school in Greece) |
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One of the greatest Western philosophers
5th century Athenian Greek
one of Socrates' best students |
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| Explain The World of Forms. |
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This world is not real (a shadow world).
Somewhere out there, behind the sun, is the perfect world of forms.
Because it tries to mimic nature, art is far away from perfect. |
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| What is Plato "anti-art"? |
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Because he loves it.
You can read it like lit.
He's afraid of his passions.
Thinks it's bad for society. |
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| What are Oscar Wilde's dates? |
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| What are the years of Victorianism? |
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| When was Late Victorianism? |
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| The term used in literary history which denotes the decline of a great period and whose qualities include self-consciousness, a restless curiosity, and often moral perversity |
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| The group of late 19th and early 20th century writers who held that art was superior to nature and that the finest beauty was that of dying or decaying things, and who attacked the accepted moral, ethical, and social standards of their time |
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| The conversational style in Dorian Gray adapted from Wilde's own manner of speaking (every line written is quotable). |
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| Who was Friedrich Nietzsche? |
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| What did Friedrich Nietzsche believe in? |
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Übermensche – super man (The magnanimous man)
You act how you want. On your own morals not God's. You live by your own choices.
“One must destroy the soul in order to save it.” |
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| A literary style marked by excessively refined emotion and preciosity (affectation) of language. |
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| A genre of literature whose elements include variety, richness, aspiration, mystery, horrors and use of the supernatural |
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| What is a Comedy of Manners? |
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| A genre of literature which discounts plot, features stereotypical characters, highlights witty dialogue, and satirizes a particular group of people |
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| Believed in art for art's sake |
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| What is Plato's ontological objection to art? |
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| Art is mimetic and, therefore, is thrice removed from reality according to the world of forms. |
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| What is Plato's epistemological objection to art? |
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| Works of art are what they are by virtue of being illusions; therefore they don't lead us to knowledge. |
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| Austrian physician and father of psychoanalysis |
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| What are Sigmund Freud's dates? |
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| What are Sigmund Freud's 3 stages? |
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| What are Sigmund Freud's 3 stages? |
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| What are Sigmund Freud's 3 stages? |
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| What is the Oedipus complex? |
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| little boy identifies has subconscious sexual desires for his mother. He sees his father as his competition. |
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| What is the Electra Complex? |
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| A girl has unconscious sexual desire for her father and wants to identify with him. Not the mother. |
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| What are Freud's 3 aspects of the Soul? |
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| What are Plato's 3 aspects of the Soul? |
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| Appetitive, Spirited, and Rational |
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| What are Aristotle's dates? |
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| What did Aristotle believe? |
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Not what Plato taught him
He believed in the real world. |
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| What does Aristotle believe about art? |
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No bias against the “visible world”
Art deals in mimetic images, but this is not a reason to condemn art |
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| purging of emotional tensions |
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| Why did Aristotle believe that catharsis was most needed by the Hoi Polloi? |
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| He saw the production of art as a way of pacifying the masses |
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| 2 divisions of Frederich Nietzsche's thinking? |
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Very platonic, the ideal world
BASIL! |
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worldly passions, sensations etc.
HARRY! |
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| According to Freud, what are the 2 most important things in your life? |
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| Your sex life and the job you choose |
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| passionate drives that are irrational and antisocial |
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| the rational component of the psyche, which is not capable of containing the id |
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| harshly irrational component of the psyche that enforces strict moral standards |
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