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" 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... "
A Comparative Study of Art Definitions and Their Application to the Art of ... - Page 6
by Hilda Ovidia Hendrickson - 1929 - 140 pages
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The Reader's Guide to the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Handbook Containing ...

Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc - 1913 - 464 pages
...be to say that a beautiful etching is not true art because a press produces it and others like it. "Fine art is everything which man does or makes in one way rather tlwn another .... in order to express and arouse emotion .... with results independent of direct utility."...
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The Place of Oratory in the Field of Fine Art

Mary Lucile Welty - 1900 - 148 pages
...when they are so done or made by others." Again/ this definition is given from the same source: "Pine Art is everything which man does or makes in one way...rather than another, freely and with premeditation, 1 in order to express and arouse emotion, in obedience to laws of rhythmic movement or utterance or...
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New Outlook, Volume 146

1927 - 636 pages
...liberty of quoting Colvin's definition of fine art, which he deduces from the philosophy of Schiller: Fine art is everything which man does or makes in...freely and with premeditation, in order to express or arouse emotion, in obedience to laws of rhythmic movement or utterance or regulated design, and...
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Art and Civilization

Francis Sydney Marvin, Alan Francis Clutton-Brock - 1928 - 316 pages
...Fine ' brings in the idea of beauty. ' Fine Art ', said Sir Sidney Colvin,1 ' is everything which man makes in one way rather than another, freely and with...results independent of direct utility and capable of affording to man permanent and disinterested delight.' With some doubt as to either the meaning or...
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