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Definition:
A 1960s reaction to
Abstract Expressionism,
Minimalism focused on creating art with simple geometric shapes. Especially valued was
the use of shapes which occurred with industrially produced objects, for example bricks
or tubes. Minimalism is often seen as a move away from brash, commercialized form and
towards simpler, classical design. Some famous minimalists include Dan Flavin, Donald Judd,
Sol Lewitt and Robert Ryman.
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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?
