> On Aug 26, 2014, at 3:11 PM, Ant McWatt <[email protected]> wrote: > > Otherwise, I should note that Patrick Doorly points out in his MOQ text "THE > TRUTH ABOUT ART" that Plato's regard of the fine arts as being largely > imitative was not really challenged in Western Academia until Ernst Gombrich > wrote his famous (infamous?) essay about a hobby horse in 1950. A hobby > horse, as Gombrich points out, does not imitate a horse (a wild horse does > not have a wheel for instance!) but rather acts as a "substitute".
Ron: What I got from the Stanford piece, Was that Plato was aiming at Greek Tragedy mainly. In that respect, He aimed specifically at stereotypes And characeture . It was all about creating the best forms in the ideal Republic ( keeping in mind the dialogue began with the question Of knowing a man, that you best Know him through the society He participates in.) Long and short, they didn't go in For satire at the worst and racial stereotyping at best, probably would frown on impersonators, and impostors. As I understand it Credited with the decline of Greek Tragedy . . Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
