Exam Details

Subject Philosophy Of Art (Aesthetics)
Paper
Exam / Course M.A. PHILOSOPHY (MAPY)
Department School of Interdisciplinary and Trans-Disciplinary Studies (SOITDS)
Organization indira gandhi national open university
Position
Exam Date December, 2015
City, State new delhi,


Question Paper

1. Discuss the definition and nature of Aesthetics. Explain various approaches to Aesthetics.
OR
Elucidate the definition, nature and scope of Rasa.

2. Elucidate the application of Aesthetics in digital art and in other fields.
OR
Explain various post-modern approaches to Aesthetics.

3. Answer any two of the following in about 250 words each:

Discuss Abhinavagupta's contribution in understanding Rasa.

Elucidate Plato's theory of imitation.

Explain Hegel's understanding of Beauty.

What is art? Discuss the Vedantic understanding of art experience.

4. Answer any four of the following in about 150 words each

What is Aquinas views on aesthetics

Briefly explain the relation between art experience and morality.

What are Bhatta Nayaka's assertions on Rasa?

What do you understand by formalism in art?

How does Edmund Burke view art?

What do you understand by the Revelation theory of Rasa

5. Write short notes on any five of the following in about 100 words each

Dhvani

Sringara Rasa

Suchness

Aesthetic judgement

Laukika Rasa and Alaukika Rasa

John Dewey on art

Aesthetic receipient

Ontology of Art


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Subjects

  • Dalit Philosophy
  • Epistemology
  • Ethics
  • Gandhian Philosophy
  • Indian Philosophy
  • Logic
  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy Of Art (Aesthetics)
  • Philosophy Of Human Person
  • Philosophy Of Mind
  • Philosophy Of Religion
  • Philosophy Of Science And Cosmology
  • Philosophy Of Sri Aurobindo
  • Philosophy Of Technology
  • Research Methodology In Philosophy
  • Tribal Philosophy
  • Western Philosophy
  • World Religions