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    This document discusses whether art always needs to have a functional purpose. It provides examples of art forms like plays, poems, and books that are considered great works of art despite not having a functional purpose. While efficiency can determine beauty in some functional objects, a purely efficient object is not necessarily beautiful as art requires more than just efficiency. The document also discusses Plato's view that artists are imitators and art is mere imitation of copies, not reflections of true eternal forms. Plato was suspicious of art because it appeals to emotion over reason and imitates reality rather than leading to it.

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    This document discusses whether art always needs to have a functional purpose. It provides examples of art forms like plays, poems, and books that are considered great works of art despite not having a functional purpose. While efficiency can determine beauty in some functional objects, a purely efficient object is not necessarily beautiful as art requires more than just efficiency. The document also discusses Plato's view that artists are imitators and art is mere imitation of copies, not reflections of true eternal forms. Plato was suspicious of art because it appeals to emotion over reason and imitates reality rather than leading to it.

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    This document discusses whether art always needs to have a functional purpose. It provides examples of art forms like plays, poems, and books that are considered great works of art despite not having a functional purpose. While efficiency can determine beauty in some functional objects, a purely efficient object is not necessarily beautiful as art requires more than just efficiency. The document also discusses Plato's view that artists are imitators and art is mere imitation of copies, not reflections of true eternal forms. Plato was suspicious of art because it appeals to emotion over reason and imitates reality rather than leading to it.

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    DOES ART ALWAYS

    HAVE TO BE
    FUNCTIONAL?
    Functional art refers to aesthetic
    objects that serve utilitarian purposes.
    The genre is remarkably inclusive: it
    encompasses everything from furniture
    and lighting to dishes and even books.
    EXAMPLES:
    The value of a work does not depend on function
    but on the work itself. The plays of Aeschylus and
    the poetry of Robert Frost and Edgar Allan Poe
    are still counted as examples of great works of
    art despite their not having known function.
    A functional object cannot be claimed to be
    beautiful unless it can perform its function
    sufficiently. Despite this, efficiency cannot
    be mistaken as beauty. While it certainly
    determines beauty in some works of art, an
    efficient functional object is not necessarily
    beautiful. Art demands so much more than
    mere efficiency.
    PHILOSOPHICAL
    PERSPECTIVES ON
    ART
    ART AS AN IMITATION
    Plato (2000) in his
    masterpiece, The Republic,
    particularly paints a picture of
    artist as imitators and art as
    mere imitation. In Plato’s
    metaphysics or view of reality,
    the things in this world are only
    copies of the original, the
    eternal, and the true entities
    that can only be found in the
    World of Forms.
    When one ascribes beauty to another
    person, he refers to an imperfect
    beauty that participates only in the
    form of beauty in the World of Forms.
    Plato was convinced that artist merely
    reinforce the belief in copies and
    discourage men to reach for the real
    entities in the World of Forms.
    Plato was deeply suspicious of arts and
    artists for two reasons; they appeal to
    the emotion rather than to the rational
    faculty of men and they imitate rather
    than lead one to reality.
    For Plato, art is dangerous because it
    provides a petty replacement for the
    real entities that can only be attained
    through reason.

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