The "what is art?" question is a question about why it is important for us to call some entities 'mere thing' and others 'work of art'

What is art? (Aesthetic-mediated-perception)

Reading:

(18) 3/31 Metaphysics of art objects
• Arthur Danto, Transfiguration of the Commonplace, Ch. 1

(19) 4/2 Content
• Transfiguration, TBA

20) 4/7 Closer look at mimesis
• Transfiguration, TBA

21) 4/9 Interpretation
• Transfiguration cont, TBA

22) 4/14 Modernist concepts of beauty and design
• Handout on Kant’s and Duchamp’s aesthetics

23) 4/16 Holonic theory of art
• Ken Wilber, The Eye of Spirit, “Integral Art and Literary Theory”