The arts of the beautiful
By: Etienne Gilson.
Edition: 1st Dalkey Archive ed.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: [Normal, IL]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Aesthetics.; Arts -- Philosophy.
Description: "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 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 indispensable to philosophers and artists alike."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.