Aesthetic Appreciation: Crash Course Philosophy #30
Today we are talking about art and aesthetic appreciation. What makes something an artwork? Can art really be defined? Is aesthetic value is objective or ...
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Close your eyes and imagine a bronze statue of a cat. Oh that’s a cute kitty. Yeah. But now imagine the statue is placed at the top of a staircase at some big university. Since college students can get up to all kinds of tricks, school officials have placed a chain around the neck of the statue, securing it to its podium, to keep it from being spirited away on some raucous Friday night. The statue, as created by its artist, was unchained. But the chain has been in place for so long, that generations of students have come to know the statue as the “chained cat.” Now here’s the question: is the chain a part of the artwork? Is it a chained statue of a cat? Or has it become a statue of a chained cat? [Theme Music] Maybe you’re one of those people who doesn’t really care about art –...
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Close your eyes and imagine a bronze statue of a cat. Oh that’s a cute kitty. Yeah. But now imagine the statue is placed at the top of a staircase at some big university. Since college students can get up to all kinds of tricks, school officials have placed a chain around the neck of the statue, securing it to its podium, to keep it from being spirited away on some raucous Friday night. The statue, as created by its artist, was unchained. But the chain has been in place for so long, that generations of students have come to know the statue as the “chained cat.” Now here’s the question: is the chain a part of the artwork? Is it a chained statue of a cat? Or has it become a statue of a chained cat? [Theme Music] Maybe you’re one of those people who doesn’t really care about art –...
