1) Antennas-Sensors (allow to know surroundings).
a) States that people have another sense; it is this sense that allows each individual to connect to art.
i) If you don’t connect with a piece of art, your antenna isn’t attuned to it.
ii) All objects, all things have a way to connect to the antennas of other things.
2) Art is meant to Unite.
a) Piss Christ- immortal, dividing people
b) 20th and 21st century removed this definition.
3) Hume- Sensory perceptions come first.
a) Feeling need expression and expression is conative.
b) Spiritual not merely sensual.
4) The Romantics – Value accuracy
5) Lyrics have to be beautiful
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
· purpose of art=produce beauty. "The point of beauty is to give pleasure and arouse desire."
· -beauty is to be found in nature,
- highest aim of art is to imitate nature”
· Sensual art – human form and perfection of nature
Hume
· -Art gives pleasure and satisfaction to the soul
- -Pleasure and pain constitute the essence of beauty and deformity.
· Standard of taste + aesthetic judgments- ascertaining which features of art were most highly pleasing to qualified and impartial connoisseurs
Edmund Burke
· The sublime- can be the aim of art: a feeling of beauty is a form of love without desire, and to feel something as sublime is to feel astonishment without fear.”
· Sublime: high moral, aesthetic, and spiritual value; inspiring deep, or uplifting emotion because of its beauty
· The sublime= destroy to create
· Derives from need for social contact, \
Kant
· - Taste is the faculty of judging of an object
m -object of such satisfaction is called beautiful.”
- Sensual delight = gratification
- Disinterested enjoyment = pleasingness
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· -Free beauty = nature, natural things, life
- Derivative beauty = art, interpretations of life and nature
· -Production of beauty is the purpose of art
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