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Definition:
An unapologetically political form of art, Social Realism was an attempt to portray life
as realistically as possible, but for the purpose of demonstrating various social
problems which needed to be addressed. Thus, Social Realism attempted to used the
aesthetic experience in viewer as a medium for creating political awareness and,
eventually, political action.
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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?
