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Work of art

Work of art
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Overview

aesthetic item or artistic creation of aesthetic value

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  1. Through this he communicates to others the Idea he has grasped. This Idea remains unchanged and the same, so that æsthetic pleasure is one and the same whether it is called forth by a work of art or directly by the contemplation of nature and life. The work of art is only a means of facilitating the knowledge in which this pleasure consists.

    Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea

    Names Work of art several times; states what Work of art is.

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  2. Nevertheless, this higher rank assigned to the work of art is in turn disputed by another idea of the common consciousness. It is said that nature and its products are a work of God, created by his goodness and wisdom, whereas the work of art is _merely_ a human production, made after man's devising by man's hands. In this antithesis between natural production as a divine creation and human activity as a merely…

    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 I.--THE WORK OF ART AS MADE AND AS SENSUOUS.” is titled for Work of art; states what Work of art is.

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  3. An interest vital to man, the spiritual values which the single event, one individual character, one action possesses in its devolution and final issue, is seized in the work of art and emphasized with greater purity[51] and clarity than is possible on the ground of ordinary reality where human art is not. And for this reason the work of art is of higher rank than any product of Nature whatever, which has not…

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 1

    States what Work of art is; names Work of art several times.

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Part of Aesthetics.

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