Chapters 47 & 48

Chapter 47:

This chapter talks about the question "What is art?" which has been asked over and over again for centuries.  It talks about what all is included in art and then it talks about Gowans four functions of art. 

1.) The four functions of art are substitute imagery: works such as photos, painting and so on that capture reality; illustration: works that tell stories or help tell stories; conviction and persuasion:works that show beliefs, sell products; beautification: works that please the eye or gratify the mind

3.) All of the connections make sense between the functions of art and the theories of art. Substitute imagery is mimetic since it is taking place of an image.  Illustration is objective because its telling a story with the object. 

4.) Illustration and beautification dominate the media because our society is all about having narratives and making things beautiful.  Nobody wants to see and advertisement that isn't pleasing to the eye.

5.) An artist can create reality by using substitute imagery.

Chapter 48

In this chapter they talk about the creation behind art. They bring up the latent and manifest function again relating to art. They also talk about how creativity and art doesn't just come from a mindless state. It comes from experience and what you have viewed. So they talk about how film students study art history and old films in order to have creative ideas.

1.) She says the old style is insistent but respectful and modern style excavates and while it excavates it destroys.

2.) She calls Freud the manifest content and Marx the latent content. And she says that they only seem to be intelligible.

3.) She says that because however someone wrote something doesn't mean that the reader is going to interpret it that way. Everyone is going to interpret things in their own way. 

4.) I don't believe we can be exposed to a text without interpreting it. Everyone has their own ideas about what they read.

5.) I think they would say that everyone is going to interpret things they're own way but none of their ideas are going to be original because everything has been thought of before.