Objectives

• Evaluate various approaches to art 
• Summarize various approaches to art 
• Synthesize various approaches to art with different types of discussions about art

Instructions

1. Choose  one “approach” to art and describe it. What is important, or  meaningful, about an artwork for someone using this approach? What would  someone using this approach look for? What kind of research would they  do? 

2. Evaluate  your chosen approach. What does it do well? What is it good at  discovering, or bringing to our attention? What does it miss? What does  it ignore? 

3. Now  look at Chapter 8—this chapter has sections about art and politics,  aesthetic quarrels, and iconoclasm. In each of these sections there are  examples of the kinds of issues, discussions, or arguments people have  about these things. Choose one of these example “arguments” and describe  how someone using your chosen approach might respond. What would they  have to say about the issue? What might be important to them? What might  they choose to ignore, excuse, or encourage?