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  2. Arthur Wesley Dow - Wikipedia

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    Arthur Wesley Dow was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1857. [3] Dow received his first art training in 1880 from Anna K. Freeland of Worcester, Massachusetts.The following year, Dow continued his studies in Boston [1] with James M. Stone, a former student of Frank Duveneck and Gustave Bouguereau.

  3. Values (Western philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    A Fabergé egg. Frankena in his list of values groups beauty with harmony, proportion and aesthetic experience. There are many different kinds of value that can be included in this category and Frankena himself distinguishes between "harmony and proportion in objects contemplated" and "harmony and proportion in one's own life". [15]

  4. George Lansing Raymond - Wikipedia

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    Raymond was the author of a systematic theory of art published by G.P. Putnam, published in seven volumes during the period 1886 to 1900, and republished as a set of uniform volumes in 1909. Additionally an eighth volume was published, as a summary of the seven volumes, titled, Essentials of Esthetics. A volume of excerpts of his seven books ...

  5. Theory of art - Wikipedia

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    Some art theorists have proposed that the attempt to define art must be abandoned and have instead urged an anti-essentialist theory of art. [9] In 'The Role of Theory in Aesthetics' (1956), Morris Weitz famously argues that individually necessary and jointly sufficient conditions will never be forthcoming for the concept 'art' because it is an ...

  6. Leon Battista Alberti - Wikipedia

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    Alberti was the creator of a theory called "historia". In his treatise De pictura (1435) he explains the theory of the accumulation of people, animals, and buildings, which create harmony amongst each other, and "hold the eye of the learned and unlearned spectator for a long while with a certain sense of pleasure and emotion".

  7. Theory of basic human values - Wikipedia

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    Circle chart of values in the theory of basic human values [1] The theory of basic human values is a theory of cross-cultural psychology and universal values developed by Shalom H. Schwartz. The theory extends previous cross-cultural communication frameworks such as Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory. Schwartz identifies ten basic human ...

  8. Value theory - Wikipedia

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    The word axiology has its origin in the ancient Greek terms ἄξιος (axios, meaning ' worth ' or ' value ') and λόγος (logos, meaning ' study ' or ' theory of '). [7] Even though the roots of value theory reach back to the ancient period , this area of thought was only conceived as a distinct discipline in the late 19th and early 20th ...

  9. Universal value - Wikipedia

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    A value is a universal value if it has the same value or worth for all, or almost all, people. Spheres of human value encompass morality, aesthetic preference, traits, human endeavour, and social order.