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Dissolving of the Art and Craft Dichotomy Using Food as the Catalyst

Hollatz-Guastella, Alexander Paul
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8787-7427
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1671227109392271

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2022, Master of Arts, University of Toledo, Philosophy.
When viewing the categories of art and craft as the field of philosophy has typically done, we are inevitably forced to make unfair and arbitrary categorizations of aesthetic artifacts based on an overly restrictive binary. This project attempts to dismantle this antiquated dichotomy by showing that food represents a prime example of a class of aesthetic objects which cannot be neatly or usefully categorized into either camp, and by further detailing how elements traditionally thought quintessential to each amount to little more than flimsy justifications for our attributions and classifications. In doing so, I hope to show a more useful metric by which we can evaluate aesthetic artifacts; one which accurately assesses the features of them by judging them on independent metrics associated with these existing elements.
Ammon Allred (Committee Chair)
Peter Feldmeier (Committee Member)
Christopher Martin (Committee Member)
67 p.
Aesthetics; Philosophy
Art; Craft; Food; Art & Craft; Philosophy; Aesthetics; Philosophy of Art; Value Theory;

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  • Hollatz-Guastella, A. P. (2022). Dissolving of the Art and Craft Dichotomy Using Food as the Catalyst [Master's thesis, University of Toledo]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1671227109392271

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hollatz-Guastella, Alexander. Dissolving of the Art and Craft Dichotomy Using Food as the Catalyst. 2022. University of Toledo, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1671227109392271.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hollatz-Guastella, Alexander. "Dissolving of the Art and Craft Dichotomy Using Food as the Catalyst." Master's thesis, University of Toledo, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1671227109392271

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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