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Exploring Different Schools of Aesthetic Criticism Timeline Game

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Are you ready to explore different schools of aesthetic criticism through a fun and engaging timeline game?

  • Key detail 1: The game involves placing events in their correct chronological order.
  • Key detail 2: Players will learn about various events and movements in art history.
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  • 4th century BCE: Plato's theory of mimesis in 'The Republic'
  • 335 BCE: Aristotle's 'Poetics' outlining principles of tragedy and poetry
  • c. 20 BCE: Horace's 'Ars Poetica' on the nature of poetry and art
  • 3rd century CE: Plotinus' Neoplatonic aesthetics emphasizing the importance of beauty
  • 4th century CE: St. Augustine's view on beauty as a reflection of God's creation
  • 13th century: Thomas Aquinas' theological aesthetics linking beauty to goodness and truth
  • 1790: Immanuel Kant's 'Critique of Judgment' on aesthetics and teleology
  • 19th century: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's dialectical approach to aesthetics
  • 1794: Friedrich Schiller's 'On the Aesthetic Education of Man' on the role of art in society
  • 19th century: Arthur Schopenhauer's pessimistic view on aesthetics and the role of art in alleviating suffering
  • 19th century: John Ruskin's influence on the Arts and Crafts movement and environmental aesthetics
  • 1936: Walter Benjamin's 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'
  • 20th century: Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer's critique of the culture industry
  • 20th century: Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological approach to aesthetics and perception
  • 20th century: Jacques Derrida's deconstruction of aesthetic hierarchies and binary oppositions
  • 1972: Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's 'Anti-Oedipus' on desire and aesthetics
  • 20th century: Judith Butler's gender performativity and its implications for aesthetics
  • 20th century: Slavoj Žižek's analysis of ideology and aesthetics in contemporary culture
  • 21st century: Sianne Ngai's exploration of 'ugly feelings' and their impact on aesthetic experience
  • 21st century: Timothy Morton's 'dark ecology' and its implications for aesthetics and environmentalism

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