Questions I am repeatedly going to come back to during the course of the semester are:

1) What is the role or function of the "work of art" in the social context?

2) What is the position of the artist in the social context?

3) What is the conception or nature of making "art" in the social context?

4) How do your answers to the first three questions help you to gain an understanding of the particular culture's conception of reality?