representative regime of art

is a perspective on art codified in the classical age which liberated the arts of their moral, religious and social criteria and replaced that with . ..

Also referred to as the 'poetic regime of art', the representative regime emerged out of Aristotle's critique of Plato and established a series of axioms that were eventually codified in the Classical Age. The representative regime liberated the arts from the moral, religious, and social criteria of the ethical regime of images and separated the fine arts, qua imitations, from other techniques and modes of production. By defining the essence of poiësis as the fictional imitation of actions and isolating a specific domain for fiction, the representative regime did not, however, establish a simple regime of resemblance. Rather than reproducing reality, works within the representative regime obey a series of axioms that define the arts' proper forms: the hierarchy of genres and subject matter, the principle of appropriateness that adapts forms of expression and action to the subjects represented and to the proper genre, the ideal of speech as act (Rancière 2000: 91).

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representative regime of art