High art vs low art aristotle biography

Throughout the ages philosophers have wrestled with the notion of art at every possible level. From Plato to Marx, Aristotle to Hume, Kant to Danto, history’s great minds have theorized about the nature of art, testing the depths of human understanding.

Aristotle art as representation

With art one can easily find discussion delving into ontology, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, sociology, psychology, and even politics without even scratching the tip of the iceberg. Yet even with the enormous breadth of conceptions of art on which to meditate philosophers and theorists have concocted numerous opposing view points which have helped to shape and focus each other throughout the centuries.

This paper will focus on the particular theories of one of the first great thinkers to tackle the enigmatic nature of art; Aristotle. While Aristotle did not have the vast wealth of art theory to respond to that later philosophers would have, he did immediately follow the first and one of most emphatic philosophers to comme