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Artistic symbol
Overview
representation that conveys deeper meaning
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The higher truth consequently is spiritual content which has received the shape adequate to the conception of its essence; and this it is which supplies the principle of division for the philosophy of art. For before the mind can attain to the true notion of its absolute essence, it is constrained to traverse a series of stages rooted in this very notional concept; and to this course of stages which it unfolds to…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 1
Close in meaning to Artistic symbol; the term itself is not named.
A single phrase depicts a whole subject, a whole scene. We hear of "a gentleman that derived his patent of nobility direct {28} from Almighty God." Our Scottish forefathers in the battlefield struggled forward "_red-wat-shod_:"[40] in this one word a full vision of horror…
Thomas Carlyle, Essay on Burns
States what Artistic symbol is; the author is tied to Artistic symbol in the knowledge graph.
Those forms which do not constitute the presentation of a given concept itself but only, as approximate representations of the Imagination, express the consequences bound up with it and its relationship to other concepts, are called (aesthetical) _attributes_ of an object, whose concept as a rational Idea cannot be adequately presented. Thus Jupiter’s eagle with the lightning in its claws is an attribute of the…
Immanuel Kant, Kant's Critique of Judgement
States what Artistic symbol is.
Philosophers who discussed Artistic symbol
Related ideas
- Literature
- Narrative
- William Shakespeare
- Symbol
- Genre
- Abstract and concrete
- Art
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- Aesthetic interpretation
- National flag
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