due Feb 1 (2 pm Eastern standard time)

1. Please read the two PDFs about mimesis and the soul. Follow the instructions in the Mimesis PDF and post your results here.

2. Look at the following examples:

· Haeckel's Art Forms of Nature:  wiki introduction with image gallery

· Tomita's taxidermy art on tumblr

· Steiff, Hänschens Soldaten (Little Hans' Soldiers; in it, it says, "Sein Traum" = His Dream):  first stop motion film  (advertisement for Steiff toys)

· Shakespeare's sonnet 55 (see PDF) 

Think about how art imitates life or life imitates art in the given examples, and also how art perhaps animates, brings and keeps someone/something alive (also think back to Dorian Gray). How does this relate to the idea of a soul (both in the sense of an essence and the Aristotelian sense of a Form/structure)? Post your notes here.