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Article://Using Role Play to Teach and Learn Aesthetics// by Bradford B. Venable Art Education January 2001 Notes documented directly from author: Book 1: //Thinking through Aesthetics// by Marilyn G. Stewart Notes documented directly from text: Introduction and Chapter 1 Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Children Chapter 2 Aesthetic Theories and Philosophical Questions
 * 1) After studying works of by "their" artist, students wrote a letter to a museum or art gallery describing the importance of the work.pg.48
 * 2) Other articles recommended //Puzzles about Art:An Aesthetics Casebook// (Battin, Fisher, Moore, & Silvers, 1989) pg. 49
 * 3) Aesthetics issues can increase their awareness of the world. pg. 49
 * 4) Students also wrestled with the concept of free expression and where it should take place. pg. 50
 * 1) What makes art important enough to be shown at the Museum of Modern Art? pg.xi
 * 2) There is a widespread assumption that when attempting to judge the merit of artworks, one person's opinions is as good as another's; these are matters of taste, and there is no disputing matters of taste pg. xii
 * 3) aesthetics deals with our experience of beauty and ugliness outside of art. pg. 2
 * 4) Aesthetics as a branch of philosophy is a Western construction. pg. 3
 * 5) philosophers have pondered whether an artist must intend to create a work of art in order for the work to be the art, thus focusing on mental state of the artist as an important consideration. pg.4
 * 6) To what extent does the socio-historical context affect the way in which a perceiver responds to an artwork?, "what is or should be the role of the artwork in culture?" pg.6
 * 7) We engage in art criticism when we focus our attention on the meaning and significance of a particular work of art of body of work. pg. 7
 * 8) Show them artworks that fall outside their conceptions of art, or by exposing them to thinking that does not correspond to their ow. pg. 10
 * 9) If the rules of discussion include listening carefully without judgement, children can seriously consider other views; they can "try on" and weigh the merits of the competing veiw. pg.11
 * 10) Learn to respect the alternative view. pg.11
 * 11) Aesthetics is the branch of philosophical inquiry in which we address questions about beauty, art, our experiences with art and beauty, and what we can legitimately say about the meaning or signigicance of artwors. pg.15
 * 1) An artwork is relational: it always exists in relation to other things, people, or events. pg. 18
 * 2) FORMALIST THEORY is formal qualities, suchas texture, line space, and form. pg. 20
 * 3) For the Formalist, things such as subject matter, moods or feelings, social issues, and artists' intentions are external to the artwork and do not have aesthetic significance. pg. 21
 * 4) EXPRESSIONIST THEORIES of art have focused on and explored the potential of artworks to express feelings. pg. 22
 * 5) Expressionist theories often wil attribute the expressive character of an artwork to the formal elements-such as color, line, texture, and of space-which, with subject matter, help create the feelings expressed or evoked by the artwork. pg. 22
 * 6) CONTEXTUALIST THEORIES focused on the social, political, and historical contects in which artworks are made and encountered. Three general types: Instrumentalist theories, Institutinalist theories, and Linguistic theories. pg. 23
 * 7) INSTRUMRNTALIST view is one that sees the message of an artwork as its most significant aspect, and the value of art as its capacity to change the way people think ,believe, or behave. pg. 23
 * 8) INSTITUTIONALIST theories hold that appreciation and iterpretation of objects deemed art members of the artword is different from appreciation and interpretation of objects that have not been seen. Do not provide standards for judging; rather, they attempt to explain how it is that certain objects come to be called art. pg. 24
 * 9) LINGUISTIC theories link art to language do not provide standards for judging the merits of artworks. The focus, again, is upon understanding how it is that we can express and interpret meaning in art. pg.25
 * 10) IMITATION THEORIES (Realism) One of the oldes theories about art is one that assumes that art is a kind of imitation of the world. Art work can mirror reality, and have included the terms such as "representaion" to explain the phenomenon, clainin thath artists "represent" reality through a variety of media, selecting certain aspects of the world to emphasize and hold our attention. pg 25