SOC461 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Liberal Arts Education, New Criticism, Intertextuality
13 Dec 2016
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Soc 461 – October 4, 2016: Kristeller lecture 9
• Could that be a type of art?
a. Science experiments? Trying to prove something.
b. Noels? Wee pleeia, Poet as hat as osideed at.
c. Ancients vs moderns
i. M clearly better
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• The Fie Ats podue pue at ojets: the ae ade fo thei o sake, ot fo eeda
use.
a. In contrast, craft and decoration objects may have other purposes; Fine Arts erve only
aesthetic purposes.
• However, Kristeller notes that this particular definition only emerged in the eighteenth century:
before this, Art had a much broader meaning.
• The explanation for what did and did not was external to types of artistic production.
Rise of the novel> 1953 book by Ian Watt, in response to New Criticism formalist approach to literature.
Describes rise of novels from sensationalist trash to literary respectability through 18th century.
• Activities that we now see as obvious not art were once treated as Art, eg. Gardening. But
equally activities that are now viewed as Art capable were once shunned, eg. Novles.
• Ian Watt explained emergence of a reading public in 17th-18th centuries due to rising literate
urban middle class with lesisure:
o For a for discussing literature, eg. Journals, coffee houses.
o New markets for books allow writers autonomousy.
1a. The art of the free citizen
Liberal arts> The free arts and sciences; knowledge acquired for its own sake, not for instrumental
purposes such as getting ajob. Historically capabilities developed to help you participate as effective
citizen. (Greece, Rome)
• Histoiall, ats did ot efe to eatie, eautiful atiit like the Fie Ats. Fo Lati as,
skill o hadiaft.
• As such, what we now call Sciences were part of a classical Liberal Arts education:
o Quadrivinum included music, math, astronomy, geometry.
o Higher level Trivium included grammar, rhetoric, logic.
• Before 18th century, Arts could therefore include any high-level skill practiced freely. (As late as
early 20th etu, edial diagosis ofte see as oe at tha siee.
1b. The separation of art and science
Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns > 1690s debate in France whether Greeks and Romans were
the pinnacle from which civilization had declined, or if modernity had improved on anciet models.
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