COMM RELS 257 MIDTERM QUESTIONS
WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
3 points of mystification - ANSWER-1. who has access to art
2. possibility of multiple explanations of the piece influenced by a person's experience
3. form/composition/color elevated to extreme heights; loses meaning
4 ways reproductions affect meaning - ANSWER-1. Fragments meaning
2. Distort
3. Loses originality
4. Changes context
4 things about oil painting - ANSWER-1. Social status
2. Idea of Possession
3.Type of Currency
4. Allowed imagery with texture (revolutionary)
KANT - ANSWER-- purposefulness without purpose
- beauty is an essential thing
- a rose
- a strawberry
- disinterested formal experience lacking emotion
PLATO - ANSWER-- technae
- regards all art as IMITATION
- TRAGEDIES confuse AUDIENCES b/c virtue isn't always rewarded
ARISTOTLE - ANSWER-- TRAGEDY is GOOD b/c CATHARSIS
- good people make MISTAKES but critical of when good people chose to do bad things
THOMAS EQUINUS - ANSWER-- defines beauty as being TRANSIDENTAL property of
GOD
WAGNER NITECHE - ANSWER-- LIKES TRAGEDY b/c is shows REALITY
Advertising is less about _________ and more about _________ - ANSWER-ownership
/ envy
We are not a material culture but a ______________ culture - ANSWER-status
Uses art to ___________ products - ANSWER-elevate
Uses __________ features through models - ANSWER-mythological
WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
3 points of mystification - ANSWER-1. who has access to art
2. possibility of multiple explanations of the piece influenced by a person's experience
3. form/composition/color elevated to extreme heights; loses meaning
4 ways reproductions affect meaning - ANSWER-1. Fragments meaning
2. Distort
3. Loses originality
4. Changes context
4 things about oil painting - ANSWER-1. Social status
2. Idea of Possession
3.Type of Currency
4. Allowed imagery with texture (revolutionary)
KANT - ANSWER-- purposefulness without purpose
- beauty is an essential thing
- a rose
- a strawberry
- disinterested formal experience lacking emotion
PLATO - ANSWER-- technae
- regards all art as IMITATION
- TRAGEDIES confuse AUDIENCES b/c virtue isn't always rewarded
ARISTOTLE - ANSWER-- TRAGEDY is GOOD b/c CATHARSIS
- good people make MISTAKES but critical of when good people chose to do bad things
THOMAS EQUINUS - ANSWER-- defines beauty as being TRANSIDENTAL property of
GOD
WAGNER NITECHE - ANSWER-- LIKES TRAGEDY b/c is shows REALITY
Advertising is less about _________ and more about _________ - ANSWER-ownership
/ envy
We are not a material culture but a ______________ culture - ANSWER-status
Uses art to ___________ products - ANSWER-elevate
Uses __________ features through models - ANSWER-mythological
