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What is Art?

What is Art?. The OED says that art is:

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What is Art?

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  1. What is Art? The OED says that art is: • noun 1 the expression of creative skill through a visual medium such as painting or sculpture. 2 the product of such a process; paintings, drawings, and sculpture collectively. 3 (the arts) the various branches of creative activity, such as painting, music, and drama. 4 (arts) subjects of study primarily concerned with human culture (as contrasted with scientific or technical subjects). 5 a skill: the art of conversation.

  2. How do we know what we know? • What is performance? • How do you know when you’re watching a performance? • What is the purpose of performance?

  3. Purpose of Performance? • Is it for a cathartic experience? (Aristotle) • Should it be to arouse the audience’s thinking to take action to change the world? (Brecht)

  4. Nature of the Arts topics: Does art have to have meaning? Conversely, if something is meaningless, can it be art?Is a work of art enlarged or diminished by interpretation? What makes something a good or bad interpretation?Can anything be art ?Do all the arts share certain common features? What might these be? Is there a distinction between arts and applied arts (crafts)? What roles do the arts play in people’s lives? Are these roles unique to the arts? (Can art change the way we interpret the world? Does involvement in the arts help the development of personal value systems? Can art express emotion? Does art enlarge what it is possible to think?)

  5. Topics Is originality essential in the arts? Is the relationship between the individual artist and tradition similar in all the arts, in all cultures and across all times? Does art, or can art, tell the truth? If so, is artistic truth the same as truth in the context of the natural sciences, the human sciences, or history? How might the knowledge claims of art be verified or falsified? In science the idea of progress is dominant: new knowledge builds on what is already known; knowledge once discovered cannot be “unlearned”. Is the same true in the arts?

  6. Topics Is explanation a goal of the arts? How do the arts compare in this regard with other areas of knowledge? What is the proper function of the arts: to capture a perception of reality, to teach or uplift the mind, to express emotion, to create beauty, to bind a community together or to praise a spiritual power?

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