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Pattern and Special Considerations in the Organization of Landscape Material in Painting

Koehler, John G. (University of Oregon, 1963)

It was Aristotle who first expressed the idea that an artist should be more than just an “Imitator of Nature” As Plato had stated. It was aristotle's belief that an artist should concern himself with what he calls the ...
The phenomenon of chance in ancient Greek thought

Shew, Melissa M., 1977- (University of Oregon, 2008-09)

This dissertation engages three facets of Greek philosophy: (1) the phenomenon of tyche (chance, fortune, happening, or luck) in Aristotle's Physics, Nicomachean Ethics , and Poetics ; (2) how tyche informs Socrates' ...