Chapter 7 Self-Assessment

. Aesthetics deals with objects that are

. Da Vinci's Mona Lisa is

. Leo Tolstoy says that art is

. The view that art is defined by its form is known as

. An important formal characteristic of art is

. Gardner argues that

. Plato's view is that true beauty is

. Aristotle is a(n)

. For Aristotle, the poet's job is saying not what did happen but what

. Hume argues that the criteria for judging aesthetic value are

. Hume thinks that each mind perceives __________ beauty.

. According to Hume the foundation of the rules of literary composition is

. Arthur Danto was a(n)

. Hume says that the attributes of a piece of art are not in the object itself but in

. For Plato, beauty is

. True or False? Ovid declares that the arts are useless.

. True or False? In the theory of art as representation, to create art objects is to depict or imitate objects in the world in paint, clay, stone, poetry, or other media.

. True or False? Modern theorists point out that representation in art means making an exact copy.

. True or False? Subjectivists insist that works of art have objective properties by which we can judge their aesthetic goodness or badness.

. True or False? Subjectivists argue that criteria for judging aesthetic value are derived from a priori principles.

. True or False? For Aristotle, beauty is a property of objects in the everyday world.

. True or False? Hume says that the essential difference between the historian and the poet is that the one tells us what happened and the other the sort of thing that would happen.

. True or False? According to Hume, there are no objective standards by which we can tell whether one work of art is superior to another.

. True or False? The expression theory defines art as the communication of the artist's feelings and the prompting of others to experience those same feelings.

. True or False? Danto was an objectivist.

. True or False? Feminist artists sought to create a dialogue between the viewer and the artwork through the inclusion of women's perspective.

. True or False? Feminist artists sought to create a dialogue between the viewer and the artwork through the inclusion of women's perspective.

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