Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these contributions to the classification of the arts in order.
- Duchamp's readymades propose selection as art (1910s)
- Goodman distinguishes autographic from allographic arts (1968)
- Hegel's lectures on aesthetics set out a hierarchy (1820s)
- Batteux reduces the fine arts to a single principle (1746)
- Lessing distinguishes spatial from temporal arts (1766)
Hints
- The two eighteenth-century texts are twenty years apart.
- The readymade precedes Goodman by half a century.
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- Batteux reduces the fine arts to a single principle (1746)
- Lessing distinguishes spatial from temporal arts (1766)
- Hegel's lectures on aesthetics set out a hierarchy (1820s)
- Duchamp's readymades propose selection as art (1910s)
- Goodman distinguishes autographic from allographic arts (1968)
Why
The two-century gap between Hegel and Duchamp contains the whole life of the system: assembled in the eighteenth century, given a philosophical hierarchy in the nineteenth, and dismantled in the twentieth by works the scheme had no place for.
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