Why does art matter, and what makes a work valuable?
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Around 380 BCE
Republic X asks poetry and images to answer for their epistemic and political effects.
Plato — When a likeness obscures truth and the soul
Around 335 BCE
The Poetics makes tragic plot and emotion objects of analysis.
Aristotle — Learning through imitation and organizing emotion through tragedy
1790
The third Critique joins personal pleasure to the possibility of shared judgment.
Kant — Beauty asks for agreement without proof
1934
Published in New York, Art as Experience returns art to the rhythms of living.
Dewey — A consummated experience, not merely a museum object
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