1.   What is aesthetic emotion? How is it related to art?

2.   What is significant form? How is significant form related to aesthetic emotion?

3.   What, according to Bell, is the relation between art and illustration?

4.   How does Bell use "primitive art" to support his formalist hypothesis?

5.   How does Bell avoid claiming that representational art is inherently bad?

6.   How are non-aesthetic emotions used by the artist? by the viewer?

7.   Bell's theory of art can be characterized as "ahistorical". What does that mean?

8.   To what extent and in what ways do you think Bell's theory is defensible?

 

1.   What is Greenberg's definition of "modernism"?

2.   What is the relationship between "the task of self-criticism" and Greenberg's concept of "purity"?

3.   What, according to Greenberg, is the "essence of painting"? What argument does Greenberg give to support his hypothesis?

4.   In what sense is Greenberg's position Kantian?

5.   What do you agree with and what do you disagree with in Greenberg's argument? Why?

6.   Is Greenberg's view essentially the same as Bell's? If not, how is it different?