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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...

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