COMM RELS 257 Midterm Questions And Verified Answers Latest 2026 Update | Graded A+ | 100% Success

COMM RELS 257 Midterm Questions
And Verified Answers Latest 2026
Update | Graded A+ | 100% Success

KANT - Correct Answer -- purposefulness without purpose
- beauty is an essential thing
- a rose
- a strawberry
- disinterested formal experience lacking emotion




PLATO - Correct Answer -- technae
- regards all art as IMITATION
- TRAGEDIES confuse AUDIENCES b/c virtue isn't always rewarded




ARISTOTLE - Correct Answer -- TRAGEDY is GOOD b/c CATHARSIS
- good people make MISTAKES but critical of when good people chose to do bad
things


THOMAS EQUINUS - Correct Answer -- defines beauty as being TRANSIDENTAL
property of GOD

, WAGNER NITECHE - Correct Answer -- LIKES TRAGEDY b/c is shows REALITY




ANDY WARHOL - Correct Answer -- "What is art?"
+ Brillo boxes
- redefinition of art (art can be anything as long as people appreciate it as art and
embodies meaning)




3 Features of Cathedral - Correct Answer -1. proportion; geometry
2. light
3. allegory




Expression Theory - Correct Answer -- communicated emotions/feelings of the
artist
- Freud (sublimation)




Cognitive Theory - Correct Answer -- communicates ideas
- Foucault (death to author)




2 art creation theories - Correct Answer -1. expression