Chapter 2 What Is A Work Of Art?

Three more or less accepted criteria for determining whether something is a work of art

1) The object of event is made by an artist 2) The object of event is intended to be a work of art by its maker 3) Recognized experts agree that it is a work of art

Participative experience

Letting something initiate and conttol everything that comes into awareness--thinking from

Subject matter

Some value expressed in the work of art

Paticipation

Sustained attention and loss of self-awareness

Form-content

The embodiment of the meaning of a work of art in the form

Content

The interpretation of subject matter; meaning

Artistic form

The organization of a medium that results in clarifying some subject matter

Renaissance

The period in Europe from the fifteenth through sixteenth centuries with a renewed interest in ancient Greek and Roman civilizations

Perception

What we can observe

Conception

What we know or think we know