RHETOR 109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Deskilling, Intentionality
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Use concept of disability aesthetic to show how differences are crucial to modern art. Definition of aesthetic: tracking sensations evoked when viewing another body. Beauty is how we feel/ experience art pieces with our sensations (body) Reject healthy body as an ideal standard. Artists sometimes do make art to engage in the process of artistic creation, not to please the audience or evoke certain emotions. The idea of artistic genius (such as da vinci) Judith scott went against all these notions demeaning critiques like the one that links disability to criminality. Challenge/ reject idea of art presenting the ideal beauty . Perhaps he only represented a different type of art. Art judges by its capacity to overcome desires, universal. Under this mode, we would try to convince someone of your opinion about what is food/ what is important. 20th century: techniques no longer as emphasized, rather emphasis on emotive factors, deskilling oneself .
