A Comparative Study of Art Definitions and Their Application to the Art of Oral InterpretationUniversity of Wisconsin--Madison, 1929 - 140 pages |
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Page 34 - Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Page 6 - Fine art is everything which man does or makes in one way rather than another, freely and with premeditation, in order to express or arouse emotion . . . and with results independent of direct utility and capable of affording to many permanent and disinterested delight.
Page 5 - ... and universal. In antiquity the Fine Arts were not explicitly named, nor even distinctly recognized as a separate class . . . The fine or the beautiful arts, then, it is usually said are those among the arts of man which minister not primarily to his material necessities or convenience, but to his love of 4. Webster's Dictionary. 5. Ibid. 6. Ibid. beauty; and if any art fulfills both of these purposes at once, still as fulfilling the latter only, it is called fine art...
Page 6 - There is no people without art. We have seen that even the rudest and most miserable tribes devote a large part of their time and strength to art — art, which is looked down upon and treated by civilized nations, from the height of their practical and scientific achievements, more and more as idle play. And yet it seems wholly inconceivable, from the point of view of modern science, that a function to which so great a mass of energy is applied...
Page 27 - Art is a human activity, consisting in this, that one person consciously, by certain external signs, conveys to others feelings he has experienced, and other peoples are affected by these feelings and live them over in themselves.
Page 4 - Art, notwithstanding the antiquity of its origin, is still, from a didactical point of view, unknown even to those who profess it. Even as God, art hides itself in light. Art is a mysterious agent, of which the sublime virtues work in us by contemplative paths, the subjection of the divine thing.
Page 11 - the name aesthetics is intended to designate a scientific doctrine or account of beauty, in nature and art, and of the faculty for enjoying and for originating beauty which exists in man. " 1 If only the term "beauty...
Page 8 - ... museums, academies, conservatories, dramatic schools, for performances and concerts. Hundreds of thousands of workmen — carpenters, masons, painters, joiners, paper-hangers, tailors, wig-makers, jewellers, bronzers, compositors — pass their whole lives at hard work for the satisfaction of the demands of art, so that there is hardly any other human activity, except the military, which absorbs so many forces as this. But it is not only these enormous labours that are wasted on this activity,...
Page 16 - ... almost say, on reading a delightful paper of Mr. Lewis E. Gates on Impressionism and Appreciation,1 that the lamb had assimilated the lion. For the heir of all literary studies, according to Professor Gates, is the appreciative critic ; and he it is who shall fulfill the true function of criticism. He is to consider the work of art in its historical setting and its psychological origin, " as a characteristic moment in the development of human spirit, and as a delicately transparent illustration...
Page 9 - But — here brevity requires the airs of dogmatism — beauty is not a quality of things. The ^sense of beauty is the sense of ourselves passing the final aesthetic judgment on certain crucial forms of pure experience.