This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... model it. And, speaking generally, whatever men of such talents have in their imagination, whatever rouses and moves their inner nature, turns at once into shape, drawing, melody, or poem. (7) Thirdly, and to conclude: the content of art is also in some respects borrowed from the sensuous, from nature ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... model it. And, speaking generally, whatever men of such talents have in their imagination, whatever rouses and moves their inner nature, turns at once into shape, drawing, melody, or poem. (7) Thirdly, and to conclude: the content of art is also in some respects borrowed from the sensuous, from nature; or, in any case, even if the content is of a spiritual kind, it can only be seized and fixed by representing the spiritual fact, such as human relations, in the shape of phenomena with external reality. CHAPTER III. (Continued). THE CONCEPTION OF ARTISTIC BEAUTY. Part II.--The End or Art. 3. The question then arises, what the interest or the End is which man proposes to himself when he reproduces such a content in the form of works of art . This was the third point of view which we set before us with reference to the work of art, and the closer discussion of which will finally make the transition to the actual and true conception of art. If in this aspect we glance at the common consciousness, a current idea which may occur to us is-- (a) The principle of the imitation of nature. According to this view the essential purpose 1of art consists in imitation, in the sense of a facility in copying natural forms as they exist in a way that corresponds precisely to them; and the success of such a representation, exactly corresponding to nature, is supposed to be what affords complete satisfaction. (a) This definition contains, prima fade, nothing beyond the purely formal * aim that whatever already exists in the external world, just as it is therein, is now to be made a second time by man as a copy of the former, as well as he can do it with the means at his command. But we may at once regard this repetition as-- (oa) A superfluous labour, seeing...
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