RTA 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Marvin Harris, Doshisha University, Raymond Williams
17 Apr 2018
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Rta 310 class 1 january 24, 2018. Lecture 1: beauty, aesthetics, and being seen https://prezi. com/n34rjfoj-pgu/rta310-lecture-1/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy. Denis dutton suggests that it is in our evolutionary dna to appreciate work well done" as beautiful -from nature to tools to bodies. Plato did not hold artists in high regard. If art was to contribute to the goodness of society, it was important that art elevated the minds of people to the beauty of the cosmos. Beauty was at the level of eternal truth and justice (essentialist if ever there was one) He believed in: the true, the god, and the beautiful" (science, philosophy, aesthetics)- do we still. Plato has no appreciation or support for creativity or art for arts sake. The word for art was techne, which meant, basically, skill or craft. Beauty: platonic idea of beauty as something eternal an absolute, adhering to cosmological content.
