October 17, 2019
Calliope’s Sisters
The theories that the author discusses in this reading are the memetic theory of art, the instrumental theory, the emotionalist theory, and the formalist theory. The first theory discussed was mimetic theory which refers to “art that is made to represent some concrete, specific, extra-artistic subject matter.”
When I think of this I think of maybe still-life or realism within the art community. I think this theory of art can relate do our discussion of “what is art?” because the theory of mimetic art is discussing our typical idea of art, art that most would identify as such.
An example of this would be as the article discussed, the Mona Lisa. The next theory the author discusses is the instrumental theory of aesthetics. This is describing the belief that art
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