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Overview
An engaging companion piece to The Arts of the Beautiful, this volume advances Etienne Gilson's theories about art as a process of "making" by focusing on the substances available to an artist. The basis for his argument is grounded in the distinction between arts concerned with the creation of beauty and arts that are primarily functional. Gilson takes up in turn: architecture, sculpture, painting, music, dance, poetry, and the theater, analyzing in each the basic materials afforded the artist, the possibilities of artistic form, and the means of transformation and creation.Synopsis
An engaging companion piece to The Arts of the Beautiful, this volume advances Etienne Gilson's theories about art as a process of "making" by focusing on the substances available to an artist. The basis for his argument is grounded in the distinction between arts concerned with the creation of beauty and arts that are primarily functional. Gilson takes up in turn: architecture, sculpture, painting, music, dance, poetry, and the theater, analyzing in each the basic materials afforded the artist, the possibilities of artistic form, and the means of transformation and creation.
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First published by Scribner in 1966, this translation of Gilson's study allows English readers access to the aesthetician's thought. Gilson's theory about art focuses on the substances used by the artist<-->architecture, sculpture, painting, music, dance, poetry, and theater are discussed in turn<-->basing his argument on the distinction between those arts solely concerned with the creation of beauty and those that are primarily functional. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)