Art & Beauty

Maurice de Wulf

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781351273909
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: History of Art

This work attempts to establish a philosophy of art that is both intellectual and objective. At first sight it may appear that these goals are at variance with contemporary ideas. On closer examination, however, the reader will see that the tendency is in the opposite direction, a closer approach to present-day thought rather than a departure from it. To admit that there exists a world other than that of our subjective states is to subscribe to an interpretation more in keeping with the real, and thus also with artistic reality. The intellectual and objective philosophy to which this book appeals in order to interpret the beauty of art will not be an intrusion, if it guards against all exclusiveness and does not itself compromise that which gives it its value.

Index

Accessibility of beauty in nature, 124

Aesthetic of life, 68

Aesthetics (see also Art)

Greek, 204 ff.

humanist, 166-73

intellectualism in, 174

medieval, 206 ff.

in philosophy of Kant, 14

pragmatist, 166-73

sociological, 153-65

criticism of, 159-65

theory of, 153-59

Aesthetics of thirteenth century, 179-94

beauty and formality, 189

beauty and goodness, 191

beauty, form, and unity, 187

general ideas, 179

intellectualism, 195-201

metaphysical prolegomena, 185

nature and art, 182

psychological problems, 195-203

Aesthetics of the vital sentiment, 171

Aim, artistic, 107-23

Albert the Great, St.: on beauty of the Blessed Virgin, 190 f.

Analytico-synthetic method in philosophy of art, 15

Archaeology, art and, 99

Architectural works, unity in, 61

Aristotle on pleasure, 96

Art (see also Aesthetics)

archaeology and, 99

beauty of nature and beauty of, 38

by children, 26

Dante on, 25

ideas and method of study of, 1-16

impression of, 1-7, 66 ff.

defined, 2

role of the intellect, 72-77

role of the senses, 69-72

two moments in, 66

love of, 91

nature and, 182

the perception of, 66-85

perennial youth of masterpieces, 122

philosophy of, 7-9

auxiliary subjects, 14

limitations of, 2

method in study of, 14

the pleasure of, 93-97

laws of duration, 97

laws of intensity, 98 ff.

rudimentary: the ideal in, 26-29

St. Thomas on, 183

science and, 197

and the sciences, 81

social aspect of, 153-65

social role of, 118

virtue of, 184

Art, work of

approval of contemporaries, 155

an entity, 20

expressive of beauty, 36

formation of the ideal, 22

genesis of, 17-35

documentary sources, 17

the problems, 19

morality of, 100

nature of, 36-40

as a social factor, 33-35

“Art for art’s sake,” 107

Art museums, 120

Artist, motives of the, 109

“Artist,” meaning of, 2

Artistic beauty, objectivity of, 176

Artistic emotion, 86-106

laws of harmony, 103 ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Translator’s Preface
• Author’s Preface
• Contents
• I. Ideas and Method
• II. The Genesis of the Work of Art
• III. The Nature of Works of Art
• IV. The Artistic Order
• V. The Perception of Art
• VI. Artistic Emotion
• VII. Artistic Purpose
• VIII. Beauty in Nature
• IX. The Einfühlung
• X. Sociological Aesthetics
• XI. Humanist or Pragmatist Aesthetics
• XII. Return to Objectivism
• XIII. The Aesthetics of the Thirteenth Century
• XIV. The Aesthetics of the Thirteenth Century: Psychological Problems
• XV. Greek Aesthetics and Medieval Aesthetics
• Index