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Aesthetics: St. Augustine’s coffee cup

by Kurt Knecht | Oct 11, 2011 | aesthetics, art, coffee, St. Augustine, Uncategorized

St. Augustine’s views of art will take some time to tackle. He was certainly one of the most powerful and influential minds for the shaping of Western thought. In general, he tends to borrow much of his language and starting points from the neo-Platonists and Plotinus...

Aristotle and didacticism in art

by Kurt Knecht | Sep 5, 2011 | Aristotle, art, michael moore, Uncategorized

As usual, Aristotle follows Plato and suggests that the arts are about imitation. He suggests that humans are imitative by nature and delight in imitation. We even like to see the nasty bits imitated. In Poetics, he says that “though the objects themselves may be...

Can o’ worms – the expressive theory of art

by Kurt Knecht | Aug 9, 2011 | art, Goya, meaning, subjective/objective, Uncategorized, William Blake

In response to the ever insightful commentary of my good friend Robert Platte on this page, I have decided to open the can of worms that is the expressive theory of art. We have recently rekindled a 20 year dialogue on the subjective/objective nature of the experience...

Art, culture, and epistemology

by Kurt Knecht | Aug 8, 2011 | art, culture, epistemology, Martin Buber, music, Uncategorized

In the not too distant past, I heard a common argument from a musicologist. He argued that “art was an expression of culture”. The underlying pedagogical theory behind this argument is that in order to understand the specific art object under discussion, it is...

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