To Complete This Assignment, You Need To Read Chapter 12

To complete this assignment, you need to have read chapter12 on the p

To complete this assignment, you need to have read chapter12, on the principles of aesthetic value. You should also complete the SoftChalk lesson on Aesthetic Reasoning before attempting this assignment. The goal of this assignment is to demonstrate that you can use aesthetic principles in your own reasoning, and to look at an object in a new, perhaps more open-minded, way. Ideally, you should learn something about what you value, and gain some insight into how others might perceive the world a bit differently.

You must submit your responses to the assignment below in an essay format. Your essay should be a minimum of 1000 words, not including your "Works Cited" section at the end of your essay. Submit your responses in the text box provided when you click on "submit assignment." Do not attach any files to your submission. To include a picture of your object of analysis, use the "Image" tool available in the text submission box (signified by a "tree" in a box), or upload your picture to a website and include the URL in your essay.

Your essay will be automatically checked through the "Turn It In" system, so make sure that you are responsibly citing your sources, including quotation marks around quoted material, and using your own words for any summarizing or paraphrasing.

Assignment:

First, find an object THAT YOU HAVE PHYSICALLY ENCOUNTERED (do not use things from online) that you do not normally consider art, or even aesthetically valuable. You may have encountered this item in a normal daily setting, or in a museum, art store, or other venue. This will help: Pasted below is a portion of the book's website's outline devoted to aesthetic reasoning in chapter 12, which I have edited and amended to help you better understand the concepts in the chapter that are related to Homework Assignment 2. We use aesthetic reasoning to defend or criticize judgments about art, usually with one of the following eight aesthetic principles (but remember that you are not allowed to use the 8th principle on the homework assignment). Aesthetic reasoning employs one or more of those eight principles in the attempt to produce reliable grounds for an aesthetic judgment.

Aesthetic principles may not have the foundation that moral or legal principles do, but they contribute to aesthetic experience. These principles are:

• Principle 1: Objects are aesthetically valuable if they have a meaning or teach something true.
• Principle 2: Objects are aesthetically valuable if they express the values of the cultures they arise in or the artists who make them.
• Principle 3: Objects are aesthetically valuable if they can lead to social change.
• Principle 4: Objects are aesthetically valuable if they give their audience pleasure.
• Principle 5: Objects are aesthetically valuable if they give their audience certain emotions.
• Principle 6: Objects are aesthetically valuable if they produce a special non-emotion experience or mental state that comes only from art.
• Principle 7: Objects are aesthetically valuable if they possess a special aesthetic (formal) property.

Do not use Principle 8 for this assignment. You will examine the object for a brief description, then explain why you initially did not consider it art. Afterwards, choose one of the principles (either functionalist or formalist, but not both) to analyze and argue why the object could be considered aesthetic or valuable as art, based on that principle. Your analysis should be detailed and well-reasoned, integrating facts about the object and the chosen principles.