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Definition:
Coined by Allan Kaprow in 1959, the term "happening" is used in art to refer to some
spontaneous artistic event. A happening can involve visual arts, acting, or music.
Because a happening can happen anywhere, the notion that art and the aesthetic experience
are supposed to occur in specifically designated areas, like a gallery, is turned upside
down. Once a happening is finished, it simply disappears and no trace remains except for
the documentation possibly created by participants.
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What is Aesthetics?
In philosophy, aesthetics is the study of beauty and taste, whether in the form of the comic, the tragic or the sublime. Aesthetics has traditionally been part of other philosophical pursuits like the investigation of epistemology or ethics. However, it started to come into its own and become a more independent pursuit under Immanuel Kant, the German philosopher who saw aesthetics as a unitary and self-sufficient type of human experience.What is Philosophy?
What is philosophy? Is there any point in studying philosophy, or is it a useless subject? What are the different branches of philosophy - what's the difference between aestheitcs and ethics? What's the difference between metaphysics and epistemology?
