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