Aesthetics and the philosophy of art Pertemuan 5

Matakuliah : R0434/AestheticsTahun : 2007

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What counts as ‘art’ ?

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Artist, philosophers, anthropologist, psychologist and

programmers all use the notion of art in their respective field, and

give it operational definitions that are not very similar to each other.

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The main recent sense of the word ‘art’ is roughly abbreviation for creative art or ‘fine art’

Here we mean that skill is being used to express the artist creativity, or to engage the audience’s aesthetic sensibilities, or to draw the audience towards consideration of the ‘finer’ things.

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Fine Art

Van Gogh

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Often, if the skill is being used in a lowbrow or practical way, people will consider it a ‘craft’ instead of art, yet

many thinkers have defended practical and lowbrow forms as being as much

art as the more lofty forms.

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Craft

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Art or Craft ?