The Arts of the Beautiful by Étienne Gilson

The Arts of the Beautiful

Scholarly

Étienne Gilson

189 pages first pub 1964 (editions)

art philosophy informative reflective slow-paced
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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 the presence of ...

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