Concept
Art
Overview
general concept that creates expressive work for its beauty or emotional power (use Q838948 for the resulting work, use Q2018526 for the group of creative disciplines)
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But thereby the very nature of the work of art is distorted. For the work of art ought to bring a content before the mind's eye, not in its generality as such, but with this generality made absolutely individual, and sensuously particularized. If the work of art does not proceed from this principle, but sets in relief its generalized aspect with the purpose of abstract instruction, then the imaginative and sensuous…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Arts Translated from the German with Notes and Prefatory Essay
The chapter “PART II.--THE END OF ART.” is titled for Art; names Art several times.
It is this inherent _shortness of the mark_ that fixes the subordinate position we are only too ready to assign to art in our daily life nowadays. For us European art is no longer the highest means in which the actuality of truth is possessed. Speaking generally, thought has long ago pronounced a verdict upon art when it defined it as the portrayal of the Divine by concepts which appeal to sense-perception. This was…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 1
The chapter “THE IDEA OF FINE ART, OR THE IDEAL” is titled for Art; names Art several times.
The universal communicability of a pleasure carries with it in its very concept that the pleasure is not one of enjoyment, from mere sensation, but must be derived from reflection; and thus aesthetical art, as the art of beauty, has for standard the reflective Judgement and not sensation. § 45. _Beautiful Art is an art, in so far as it seems like nature_ In a product of beautiful art we must become conscious that it…
Immanuel Kant, Kant's Critique of Judgement
Names Art several times; states what Art is.
Philosophers who discussed Art
- Georg Simmel
- Władysław Tatarkiewicz
- John Dewey
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Oswald Spengler
- David Bentley Hart
- Protagoras
- Jean-François Lyotard
- Pavel Florensky
- Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
- Judah Halevi
- Avital Ronell
- Aeon (magazine)
- Leon Chwistek
- Bracha L. Ettinger
- George Dickie (philosopher)
- Jerrold Levinson
- Nicolás Gómez Dávila
- Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i
- Carlo Michelstaedter
Related ideas
- Expressionism
- Emotion
- Arthur Danto
- Francisco Goya
- Jesus
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- French Revolution
- Florence
- Nelson Goodman
- Homer
- Philosophy
- Art criticism
- Creativity
- Immanuel Kant
- Judith Butler
- Impressionism
- Idealism
- Republic (Plato)
- Human condition
- Roland Barthes
- Language
- Conceptual art
- Ion (dialogue)
- Leonardo da Vinci
Opposing perspectives
- Painting
- Music
- Literature
- Architecture
- Film
- Performing arts
- Craft
- Science
- Sculpture
- The arts
- Dance
- Theory of art
Place in the tradition
Part of Aesthetics.