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Understanding the Arts

Christopher Allen S. Marquez, PhD


School of Teacher Education and Humanities
Social Sciences and Philosophy Department
Understanding the Arts
Christopher Allen S. Marquez, PhD
School of Teacher Education and Humanities
Social Sciences and Philosophy Department
Part I. Nature of the Arts
The Arts

Artistic
Creativity

Process of
creation
Universal

Cultural
Expression
Empathy and
Experience
Not Nature
Creation

ASSUMPTIONS
Representation:
Plato vs Aristotle

Expression:
Escape: Form of
Anthropomorphic
play
properties
PHILOSOPHICAL
PERSPECTIVES

Aesthetic Form: Significant


Experience: form
Aesthetic pleasure
FUNCTIONS

Personal: educate senses and


sharpen perception

Social: reform man

Physical: form and function

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