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Item A model for teaching in a museum setting using art education and art appreciation as the education and subject area components(Texas Tech University, 1987-05) Caston, Ellie BourdonNot availableItem Coherentism as a model for aesthetic evaluation(Texas Tech University, 1993-05) Kairies, Joy E.When evaluating artworks, people commonly assert that certain artworks are good or bad, powerful or impassive, original or trite. We frequently ascribe properties and qualities to artworks such as graceful, balanced, serene, dynamic, vivid, and tragic as though those properties truly exist within the artwork and can be easily identified by any rational and observant individual. We often deliberate about the value of artworks as though there really was a correct answer. Nevertheless, it is widely believed that aesthetic judgments cannot be justified. Because past theories that purported to establish aesthetic evaluation as an objective discipline have generally been unsuccessful, people have assumed that such judgments are merely expressions of our individual tastes or attitudes. Aesthetic evaluations are thought to be similar to moral judgments in this respect. Many argue that moral claims cannot be proven to be objectively true or false. They are simply expressions of our personal attitudes, interests or prejudices.Item The function of discourse in interpreting art(Texas Tech University, 1998-05) Ucok, Inci OzumAmong a variety of objects human beings experience in everyday life are works of ari. This study examines the sense-making process of human beings of and through works of art. Talk organized around painfings between the viewer and the researcher is analyzed, to find out the manner in which the viewers' experience of paintings is reflected and created through discourse.