Week 11 (PRE-FINALS)

Question 1

He is closely identified with the discipline of aesthetics, associated sound understanding with judgement (in The Critique of Judgement 1790) in his estimate, the ability to judge works of art is dependent upon the clarity of thought and knowledge and not on

Answer 1

Immanuel Kant

Question 2

He reiterated, beauty, was not simply something that might bring pleasure. In his book ** ‘Analytical of Beauty’ **, he stated that, “the delight which determines the judgement of taste is independent of all”

Answer 2

Immanuel Kant

Question 3

Seeing something as beautiful meant seeing it as an image, rather than as a real object.

Answer 3

Aesthetic Judgement

Question 4

The aesthetic object was to be regarded in terms of formal qualities (Its harmony and proportion) rather than in terms of practical desirability (as an object to be consumed).

Answer 4

Aesthetic Judgement

Question 5

wrote expressly about the sensate elements of aesthetic pleasure, the sphere of ‘Sensation’ that was amenable to aesthetics was somehow above and beyond actual sensation-it was committed to process and reason.

Answer 5

Aestheticist

Question 6

What this means in practice is that the art viewer as a good aesthetician could not be personally and viscerally moved by a beautiful object (or person): any pleasure taken must be pleasure in the beautiful for, for instance rather than actual body something that leaves the pleasure of erotic

Answer 6

Aesthetic Pleasure