Myles`s notes at BGSU.

ACSPluralism
Irish in America p131 on
 Potato famine 1mil died Black 47 1mil emigrated Coffin Ships
 More than half emigrated were women many were alone
 Irish then considered not white race of savages
-nativism favors the interests of certain established inhabitants
of an area above those of newcomers
-xenophobia
Ethnicity in television
 The Beulah Show.50s.1st AfAm starring role
 Lone Ranger and western stereotypes
 I Love Lucy.1st show with interracial relationship
 Amos n Andy.most pop btwn 1900.1950 even w blacks NO RERUNS NOW
 Nat"King"Cole "Madison ave is afraid of the dark"
 I Spy.Cosby first AfAm hero and intracial buddy show costars
 Star Trek.1st black/white kiss
 Hawaii FiveO
 Julia 60s 1st contemporary AfAm leading lady
 Sesame Street
 All In The Family.changes tv some for AfAm
 Kung Fu.david carradine over bruce lee
 Chico and the Man.HungaRican
 Roots.1st tv portrayal of slavery from African perspective EVENT
 Cosby Show.upgrade from blucollr.said not black enough
 LA Law.Jimmy Smits
 In Living Color.90s
 All American Girl.Margaret Cho bombed said id not asian enough
asian immigration 1850s railroad intended temporary 10x income in US
most settled west coast p180 1790 naturalized citizenship reserved to
whites only p181 cheap labor p182 strikes .chinese laundryman
 coolie.unskilled laborer usu fm far east
 model minority.intended compliment minority gp whose members achieve
higher success than avg population 1950s despite marginalization have
achieved success.asians today claim overemphasis on asian success and
de.emphasizes discrimination AND seen as excusing society on racism
asians make up 30% of uni grads and 5% of pop
 oriental.now seen as offensive slur use asian
 Rutherford B Hayes.p189 antiAsian statements
 p190 chinese exclusionary act 1882 prohibit further immigration
Shetetls.jewish communities
Pogroms
by WWI a third of jewish to US
avg Jewish immigrant more educated and literate
immigrated in family units
Landsmanshafts.community groups based on former villages 269
Peddler 270 personified transformation of Jewish immigrants
sweatshops 276 277
Gentlemans Agreement 1947 movie 1st to deal w antisemitism
1929 to 1956 The Goldbergs popular sitcom about Jewish family
Antisemitism.prejudice or hostility against Jewish ethicity
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire 146 women killed 1911 one of greatest US
 industrial disasters p276 led to factory safety standards and rise
 of labor unions 14hr shifts 7dollars a week
Irving Berlin God Bless America White Xmas
Henry Ford antisemitism VS Aaron Sapiro

Aesthetics
Burke-
 Properties of sublime:

1 Terrible power vs useful power=Bull vs ox
2 Vastness=Height & Depth especially
3 Infinity=I.E. in number or distance
4 Difficulty
5
 Properties of beauty
Kant-
 First moment of judgement of taste: moment of quality
Judgement of taste is aesthetic; subjective
Aesthetic vs cognitive
Interest is satisfied desire for any real tangible thing
Delight in agreeable-interest of sense
Delight in the good-interest of reason
Delight in beautiful-independent of interest
 Second moment-beautiful pleases universally
Judgement of beautiful needs no concept
 Third moment-free beauty vs dependent beauty
 Fourth moment-beautiful is necessarily delightful
Types of modality-possible actual necessary
Kinds of necessity-factual moral aesthetic
 Regularity vs free play of imagination/image
Art in general.art vs nature. making a work vs performing operation
art vs science.ability technique prctical vs process theoretical
art vs handicraft.free play agreeable vs industrial drudgery
fine vs agreeable art.fine art n nature free of arbitrary constraint
 Genius
Talent or knack.no definite rule can be given
The products of genius must be exemplary
Genius gives the rule as nature
Nature prescribes rule through genius to fine ar not science
 Genius vs imitation
 Genius vs brains
 Genius vs taste
influenced Romanticism
Hegel-
 Schelling.idealist philosopher
 Holderlin.Romantic poet
 Napoleon as worldhist figure
 Geist.Spirit.Nous.Intellect
 3 moments Thesis.Antithesis.Synthesis
 influenced German idealists and Marx
Schopenhauer
 Mathematics vs genius.quantitative vs qualitative mind
  Goethe vs Newton on color theory
 Prudence vs genius.sophistry vs wisdom
 Ordinary man vs man of genius
 The Aesthetic.idea plus pure subject equals the experience
 Willing vs Contemplation
  Getting what you want does not lead to happiness
 The sublime.threatening exaltation degrees
  dynamically sublime and matematically sublime
 The charming or attractive.hunger or lust
 The disgusting or offensive
  ugly not equal disgusting
 The beautiful lacks the struggle of the sublime
 Difference between sublime and beautiful is subjective
 Everything is potentially beautiful
 More typifying objects are fitter for contemplation
 More willing objects are fitter for contemplation
 1st crit of Plato.Ideas only include natural not artificial
  Manufactured objects can present ideas of materials
 2nd crit.art imitates forms directly
 Aesthetic enjoyment.apprehension of idea and freedom from willing
 The arts
  Architecture.gravity rigidity light
  Artistic horticulture.plant world
  Landscape painting
  Animal depictions
  Historical depictions
  Poetry.tragedy
  Music.represents will directly
 Study of music as true philosophy
 A priori knowledge of beauty.art reflects ourselves
 Grace.involves beauty in motion
 Idea vs Concept
 Phenomena as veil of Maya
Nietzche
 Apollinian and Dionysian
 Apollinian.visualarts dream light moderation individuality illusion
 Dionysian.music intoxication dark excess primordialunity deepreality
 Reconciled in Attic tragedy
 Art as imitators of natural An and Dn forces
 An Homer vs Dn Archilocus
 The world is only justified aesthetically not morally
 Healingpower of art in sublime and comic
Tolstoy
 No objective definition of beauty
 Canon of art is ever expanding
 Activities cant be defined by pleasure.eating
criticizes physical evolutionary definitions.play or pleasure
 doesnt speak about artistic activity itself
 includes activities that are not art
criticizes experimental definition.expression of feelings by signs
 includes expressions which dont affect others
criticizes art as products which convey pleasure apart from interest
 includes nonartistic activities
 excludes art which produces unpleasant feelings
Art as means for uniting men in the same feelings
 not merely depicting emotion or causing emotion
 expressing emotion vs communicating emotion
 art communicating feelings.speech communicating thoughts
 broad sense of ART brings popular art and fine art closer
criticizes Plato EarlyXtians Muslims repudiation of all art
criticizes acceptance of anything pleasing as art
evaluation of art based on religious perception.worldview
 real art. infectious spiritual union
 counterfeit art. diversion excitement
 Individuality.Clarity.Sincerity
 Peasant art vs upper class art
Bell
 assumes Art has an essence or fixed nature
 and One aesthetic emotion is common to all art
 and One quality produces aesthetic emotion
 Art is Significznt Form is lines and colors arranged to produce
  Aesthetic Emotion
 Beauty is not the basis of aesthetics


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