ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on three such art forms: painting, photography, and architecture. Architecture might seem to some readers as an odd choice to include; it is so different than painting and photography. Many colleges and universities have an art department that is separate from departments of music, theater, literature, and so on. What are included in the art department are courses on painting, jewelry design and construction, ceramics, printmaking, and the like. Modernism includes more than art and literature. The self-criticism of Modernism grows out of, but is not the same thing as, the criticism of the Enlightenment. The reliance upon a mechanism, the camera, that is inherent in photography led many people, including aestheticians, for many years to consider photography as not a genuine art form, or at best a low-level art form. In addition to considerations of focus and selection, the intentional and representational components of photography extend beyond "getting the picture".
