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With his usual lucidity, Etienne Gilson addresses the idea that "art is the making of beauty for beauty's own sake." By distinguishing between aesthetics, which promotes art as a form of knowledge, and philosophy, which focuses on th
e presence of the artist's own talent or genius, (more...)
by Etienne Gilson Translated by Salvator Attanasio Original title: Matières et formes
An engaging companion piece to The Arts of the Beautiful, this volume advances Etienne Gilsons theories about art as a process of focusing on the substances available to an artist. The basis for his argument is grounded in the distinction between arts concerned with the creation of (more...)
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