Aesthetics - Starting with Paul Oskar Kristeller

[Confused-by-christianity]

I'm trying to read Philosophy - Aesthetics. I've started with Paul Oskar Kristeller - The Modern System of the Arts.

I've only read the first 3 quarters of the article and only read once (I think I should go over it a couple of times).

He seems to basically say - Art didn't exist as we know it before around the 1700-1800's or so. Before that, people didn't think of it as art. "Art" as we know it, was divided up and grouped in with other disciplines.

Later - things like music, poetry and painting got grouped together into "art".

I also read that basically - people read his article and just assumed he was correct and so went along believing this themselves. More recently, his view is being challenged though.

Have I understood him correctly? Is my take on his article a fair one?

 

[Tolworth John]

Art didn't exist as we know it before around the 1700-1800's or so

A highly suspect saying, as we have works of art, paintings, sketches, statues that date back before then.
He would need to show how painters etc and there patrons viewed what they were doing by supplying historical references in books, letters etc.

For anlturnative view try,:-
What is Art? and/or What is Beauty? | Issue 108 | Philosophy Now