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1 1: What Is Art? Humanities Libretexts

1 1: What Is Art? Humanities Libretexts

Art & Media

The questions, in addition to potential solutions, are, as Eisner advised, political as well as philosophical and methodological. In as much as arts provide alternative ways of figuring out the world, their use at varied levels of analysis has the ability to affect each what we come to know and how we know it. Art instruments, strategically used, permit entry to emotions and visceral responses as properly as to conscious ideas. So far, the argument for the worth of art as a method of figuring out is multifarious, embodied, and tolerant of ambivalences and ambiguities.

Art & Media

The main distinction between multimedia art and blended media art is that multimedia art has non-visual components like video, sound, literature, etc., while blended media has solely visible elements. The focus and organization of this text is much like a selection of different Art Appreciation textbooks currently out there. For instance, there are a number of texts that current Art Appreciation via a thematic structure. The material is introductory which is positive in that it is extremely accessible to readers and thus would not be too intimidating to students new to this topic. The textual content also does a great job with itemizing and creating …