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This 3 page paper discusses art with reference to aesthetics and the concepts of beauty and the sublime. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. The Contemporary Sublime Research Compiled
by K. Von Huben 4/2010 Please Introduction Defining art, or even determining whether or not something is art, is difficult because
art is completely subjective. One persons masterpiece is anothers garbage. This paper uses phenomenology and epistemology to try and determine if something is art. Discussion Because its a waste of
time to re-invent the wheel, lets consider a famous work of art and then go backwards to see if these terms will help determine why most people consider it art.
Well use the Mona Lisa. According to Iseminger, unfortunately, the difference between the two is something of an exercise in hair-splitting: "... concepts of experience are that of experience as
something characterized primarily by what it is like to undergo it, and that of experience as involving direct or non-inferential knowledge: the first maybe called a phenomenological concept of
experience, the second an epistemic one" (Iseminger, 2005, p. 100). According to the dictionary, when something is phenomenological, it pertains to a phenomenon whether that phenomenon is an
object, a memory, a thought, etc; while epistemic is a term that means pertaining to knowledge and the conditions under which it is acquired. It would appear to be the
difference between the object itself and knowledge about the object; in the case of the Mona Lisa, phenomenological concepts would consider what it might be like to paint it; an
epistemic approach would be to paint a copy of it, putting oneself, insofar as possible, in the shoes of the artist. It seems self-evident that copying a work of art
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