Arts of the Beautiful     by Etienne Gilson, Translated by Published by Dalkey Archive Press Pub. Date: July 15, 2000 Format: Paperback, 189 pages ISBN: 1564782506 List Price: $11.95 buy now directly from the publisher Free Shipping Worldwide

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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, Gilson maintains that art belongs to a different category entirely, the category of "making." Gilson's intellectually stimulating meditation on the relation of beauty and art is indispensable to philosopher s and artists alike.

A world-renowned philosopher and historian, Etienne Gilson has written several major philosophical works, including God and Philosophy, Forms and Substances in the Arts, and The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy.

"An original, highly stimulating book."—Library Journal

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