Introducing Aesthetics Quotes

“Aristotle rejected Plato’s idea of art as a distorting mirror of reality. Instead he analysed art in terms of its ability to engender emotion – especially emotions of pleasure and pain.”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Aesthetics: A Graphic Guide

“Parrhassios contradicts this notion by revealing that deception is the truth, and vice versa. The French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan was particularly fond of this story, and quoted it in his seminars during the 1960s and 70s. Aristotle’s Poetics The Poetics (c.”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Aesthetics: A Graphic Guide

“Poets were believed to have access to the muses, the daughters of memory who possessed historical knowledge and insight into the gods’ motives.”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Aesthetics: A Graphic Guide

“On account of their dangerous influence, Plato in The Republic (c. 375 BC) banned artists and poets from his ideal state.”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Aesthetics: A Graphic Guide

“Working in Moscow from 1933 until 1945, the Hungarian Marxist Georg Lukács (1885–1971) developed a theory of “Critical Realism” with respect to literature. Lukács admired narrative novelists such as Cervantes (1547–1616), Balzac (1799–1850), Dickens (1812–70), Gorky (1868–1936), Tolstoy (1828–1910) and Thomas Mann (1875–1955).”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Aesthetics: A Graphic Guide

“Imperialist societies were governed by an essentially aggressive and militaristic attitude towards outside cultures, which they regarded as potential objects of conquest and economic gain. At their most extreme, they prohibited intermarriage with other cultures in order to preserve the “purity” of their own race.”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Aesthetics: A Graphic Guide