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The Theory Of Arts And Aesthetics, A Reality To Contemporary Society: Katian Approach
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Some theorists, on the other
hand, think that the individual arts come with their own exceptional
sets of philosophical problems (Kivy 1997). The problem of the
experience and value of absolute music, for example, does not have a
clear parallel in any of the other arts, including the other abstract
arts (Kivy 1990). Authenticity is a particular problem in the performing
arts such as dance and music. But for the most part, questions in the
philosophy of art have general application across the arts. Thus the
problem of the nature of fictional characters has usually been taken to
be a problem about literature, but representational works of visual art
also contain fictional people, objects and events (Walton 1990).
Similarly, the question as to why people get emotionally involved with
fictional characters may seem to be unique to films and novels (Carroll
1990, Currie 1990, Feagin 1996, Lamarque 1996), but it applies equally
to fictions in works of visual art. Again, the question why people enjoy
tragedies is not peculiar to tragedies: It is the same kind of question
as the question why do people listen to sad music if it makes them feel
sad (Davies 1994, Levinson 1990)?
This ephemeral overview first
discusses the aesthetic in general and then turns to problems peculiar
to the arts. It ends with some general remarks about how aesthetics
connects to more general questions about knowledge, emotion, and value.
Some effort has been made to point out how the most important concepts
of aesthetics came to be considered important. The tendency of
late-twentieth-century philosophy especially analytic philosophy has
been to treat the problems of aesthetics as timeless problems having
correct answers that will be true of all art works and aesthetic
experiences no matter where or when they occur. For that reason, one
should approaches aesthetics with an eye to the historical background
from which its characteristic problems emerged and one will however have
a better sense not only of what those problems are but also of the
different ways they have been conceptualized and why which is one of the
ways to solving the problem of the study.
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