Q&A #5 Dutton: chapters 5-6

Read: Dutton, chapters 5-6.

Q: How is fiction related to human instinctual activity?

Write 2 questions of your own.

Q&A #4 Dutton: chapter 4

1. Read chapter 4.

2. Q: Could there be radically distinct concepts of art?

3. Write two questions of your own.

Note: This Q&A is due Wednesday.  There will be no class on Friday, October 4.

Q&A #3 Dutton: Chapters 2-3

1. Read: Dutton, chapters 2-3.

2. Question: To what extent do the universal features of human nature give rise to/explain/determine/shape (you choose the most appropriate verb) the cross-cultural invariants of art?

3. Write 2 questions of your own.

Q&A #2 Dutton: Chapter 1

1. Read: Dutton; Introduction and Chapter 1.

2. Question: Dutton closes Chapter 1 with this statement: "We are what we are today because our primordial ancestors followed paths and riverbanks over the horizon" (p. 28).  What are the implications for our appreciation (or lack thereof) of landscape art today?

3. Write 2 questions of your own.

Q&A #1

1. Read: "Aesthetics," from the IEP.

2. Question: In what sense, if any, is "disinterestedness" important to aesthetics?

3. Write 2 questions of your own.