LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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The creator’s, the maker’s, the imitator’s
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The user’s, the maker’s, the imitator’s
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The writer’s, the reader’s, the imitator’s
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The user’s, the architect’s, the doer’s
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Detailed explanation-1: -The three fine arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture are sometimes also called the “major arts”, with “minor arts” referring to commercial or decorative art styles. Architecture is the only form of fine visual art with a sense of utility or elements of practicality.
Detailed explanation-2: -Plato had two theories of art. One may be found in his dialogue The Republic, and seems to be the theory that Plato himself believed. According to this theory, since art imitates physical things, which in turn imitate the Forms, art is always a copy of a copy, and leads us even further from truth and toward illusion.
Detailed explanation-3: -Plato and Aristotle on Art as Imitation (Mimesis) Art is imitation, and that’s bad. Problems with imitation: Epistemological: An imitation is at three removes from the reality or truth of something (example of bed).
Detailed explanation-4: -The Imitation theory believes that art imitates life, so art works try to accurately resemble real life objects, persons, events, etc., and this imitation evokes an aesthetic (artistic) response in the observer/audience.