Overview
The Art chapter distinguishes between creating a perfect likeness, rebellion against perfect likeness, and art as alteration as different impulses that lead to distinctive styles. Please analyze this proposition: realistic imitation seeks to show the world as it is, whereas rebellion against perfect likeness and art as alteration use art that doesn’t look exactly like the world to represent some larger truth about the world. In what ways might such a statement be accurate given the works and styles the chapter has covered? What do you believe the function of art should be? The skillful pursuit of images? The revelation of some larger truth? A mixture of both?