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Understanding Aesthetic Criticism Timeline Game

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Understanding Aesthetic Criticism can be enhanced through various methods, including interactive games that challenge players to think critically about the chronological order of events.

  • Players will engage with key historical events and movements.
  • The game provides a hands-on opportunity to practice sequencing and organizing information.
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  • c. 380 BCE: Plato's 'Republic' discusses the role of art in society
  • c. 335 BCE: Aristotle's 'Poetics' outlines principles of literary criticism
  • 14th-17th centuries: Renaissance period sees a revival of interest in aesthetics and beauty
  • 1790: Immanuel Kant's 'Critique of Judgment' explores aesthetics as a distinct branch of philosophy
  • 1820s: Hegel's 'Lectures on Fine Art' discuss the development of art throughout history
  • 1840s: John Ruskin's 'Modern Painters' critiques contemporary art and aesthetics
  • 1873: Walter Pater's 'Studies in the History of the Renaissance' emphasizes the importance of art for its own sake
  • 1890: Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' explores the relationship between beauty and morality
  • 1914: Clive Bell's 'Art' proposes the concept of 'significant form' in aesthetics
  • 1920: Roger Fry's 'Vision and Design' discusses the role of perception in art criticism
  • 1939: Clement Greenberg's 'Avant-Garde and Kitsch' critiques mass culture and commercialism in art
  • 1964: Susan Sontag's 'Against Interpretation' challenges traditional approaches to art criticism
  • 1967: Roland Barthes' 'The Death of the Author' questions the authority of the artist in interpreting art
  • 1978: Jacques Derrida's 'The Truth in Painting' explores the relationship between language and visual art
  • 1984: Arthur Danto's 'The End of Art' argues for the end of art history and the rise of postmodernism
  • 1993: Judith Butler's 'Bodies That Matter' examines the role of gender and identity in aesthetics
  • 2005: W.J.T. Mitchell's 'What Do Pictures Want?' explores the agency of images in art criticism
  • 2006: Slavoj Žižek's 'The Parallax View' challenges traditional notions of aesthetic experience
  • 2012: Sianne Ngai's 'Our Aesthetic Categories' analyzes the intersection of aesthetics and politics

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