The Arts of the Beautiful Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Arts of the Beautiful Book

With his usual lucidity, Etienne Gilson addresses the idea that "art is the making of beauty for beauty's 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 indispensible to philosophers and artists alike.Read More

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  • 1564782506
  • 9781564782502
  • Etienne Gilson
  • 25 September 2009
  • W. W. Norton & Co.
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 189
  • 1
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