Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art, Volume 1This is the second of two volumes of the only English edition of Hegel's Aesthetics, the work in which he gives full expression to his seminal theory of art. The substantial Introduction is his best exposition of his general philosophy of art. In Part I he considers the general nature of artas a spiritual experience, distinguishes the beauty of art and the beauty of nature, and examines artistic genius and originality. Part II surveys the history of art from the ancient world through to the end of the eighteenth century, probing the meaning and significance of major works. Part III(in the second volume) deals individually with architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and literature; a rich array of examples makes vivid his exposition of his theory. |
Contents
Silenus with the Infant Bacchus | 1 |
i The Work of Art as a Product of Human Activity | 25 |
ii The Work of Art as being for Apprehension by Mans | 32 |
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Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art, Volume 1; Volume 1000 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,G. W. F. Hegel No preview available - 1998 |
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absolute abstract action activity actual adequate Aeschylus allegory already animal appearance art-form artistic aspect beauty becomes belong Brahma brings character classical art colour Concept concrete configuration connection consciousness contrary Cronus determinacy determinate Divine element especially essence essential Eumenides everything example explicitly expression external existence fable feeling finite finitude form of art freedom genuine gods Goethe Greek Greek mythology hand harmony heart Hegel Hephaestus Herodotus Hesiod higher honour human Idea Ideal ideal art Iliad imagination immediate independence individual infinite inherently inner interest kind living material matter meaning mode nature negative Nibelungenlied object opposition Ormuzd Pantheism Parsi particular passion pathos poet poetry precisely present produced proper reality relation religion remains representation romantic art sculpture sense sensuous side similes situation Sophocles soul specific sphere spirit stage subject-matter subjective sublimity substantial symbolic art thing tion totality Trimurti true truth unity universal whole Zeus