Forms and Substances in the Arts
Author : Etienne Gilson
Publisher : New York : Scribner
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 25,47 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Etienne Gilson
Publisher : New York : Scribner
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 25,47 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 26,51 MB
Release : 1964
Category :
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Author : Etienne Gilson
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Scholarly
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,40 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781564782502
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 the 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 philosophers and artists alike.
Author : Etienne Gilson
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,53 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Etienne Gilson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 36,77 MB
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 069125186X
A classic study of the art of painting and its relationship to reality In this book, Étienne Gilson puts forward a bold interpretation of the kind of reality depicted in paintings and its relation to the natural order. Drawing on insights from the writings of great painters—from Leonardo, Reynolds, and Constable to Mondrian and Klee—Gilson shows how painting is foreign to the order of language and knowledge. Painting, he argues, seeks to add new beings to nature, not to represent those that already exist. For this reason, we must distinguish it from another art, that of picturing, which seeks to produce images of actual or possible beings. Though pictures play an important part in human life, they do not belong in the art of painting. Through this distinction, Gilson sheds new light on the evolution of modern painting. A magisterial work of scholarship by an acclaimed historian of philosophy, Painting and Reality features paintings from both classical and modern schools, and includes extended selections from the writings of Reynolds, Delacroix, Gris, Gill, and Ozenfant.
Author : Henri Focillon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 14,23 MB
Release : 1989-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
In this text, Focillon insists that art and its meanings are an inherently dynamic system and that the history of art is one of instabilities, fluctuations and discontinuities. Artworks are never static empirical entities or pure optical presences but rather the virtual traces of a ceaseless process of becoming.
Author : Pamela Sachant
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 20,80 MB
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Art
ISBN :
Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning offers a deep insight and comprehension of the world of Art. Contents: What is Art? The Structure of Art Significance of Materials Used in Art Describing Art - Formal Analysis, Types, and Styles of Art Meaning in Art - Socio-Cultural Contexts, Symbolism, and Iconography Connecting Art to Our Lives Form in Architecture Art and Identity Art and Power Art and Ritual Life - Symbolism of Space and Ritual Objects, Mortality, and Immortality Art and Ethics
Author : Mark Anderson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 36,40 MB
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1472532899
It is commonly known that Nietzsche is one of Plato's primary philosophical antagonists, yet there is no full-length treatment in English of their ideas in dialogue and debate. Plato and Nietzsche is an advanced introduction to these two thinkers, with original insights and arguments interspersed throughout the text. Through a rigorous exploration of their ideas on art, metaphysics, ethics, and the nature of philosophy, and by explaining and analyzing each man's distinctive approach, Mark Anderson demonstrates the many and varied ways they play off against one another. This book provides the background necessary to understanding the principle matters at issue between these two philosophers and to developing an awareness that Nietzsche's engagement with Plato is deeper and more nuanced than it is often presented as being.
Author : Wassily Kandinsky
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 22,13 MB
Release : 2012-04-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 048613248X
Pioneering work by the great modernist painter, considered by many to be the father of abstract art and a leader in the movement to free art from traditional bonds. 12 illustrations.
Author : Janice Marie Weeks
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 46,50 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN :