Open AccessPsychagogic art theory
Author(s) -
Iva Draškić-Vićanović
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
theoria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-081X
pISSN - 0351-2274
DOI - 10.2298/theo1202107d
Subject(s) - praise , rhetoric , foundation (evidence) , poetry , the arts , illusion , philosophy , theory of art , epistemology , art , aesthetics , literature , linguistics , psychology , visual arts , law , political science , neuroscience
The text represents a specific approach to Gorgias' Praise to Helen. Instead of considering it as a cradle of art theory of illusion (apate) or some kind of rhetoric acrobatic feat in which Gorgia praises the blameworthy, author considers Praise to Helen as first aesthetic text in European philosophy in which fine arts and poetry had been connected by means of one notion - notion of psychagogia, and looks upon it as a foundation of art theory that could be denoted as theory of psychagogia