Aesthetics
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Ancient Art and RitualAncient Art and RitualIt may be well at the outset to say clearly what is the aim of the present volume. The title is Ancient Art and Ritual, but the reader will find in it no general summary or even outline of the facts...
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ArtArtIn this little book I have tried to develop a complete theory of visual art. I have put forward an hypothesis by reference to which the respectability, though not the validity, of all aesthetic judgments can be tested, in the light of which the...
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The Photoplay: A Psychological StudyThe Photoplay: A Psychological Study It is arbitrary to say where the development of the moving pictures began and it is impossible to foresee where it will lead. What invention marked the beginning? Was it the first device to introduce movement into the pictures...
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An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste, and of the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty, etcAn Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste, and of the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty, etc.Since the early nineteenth century it has been known that Frances Reynolds, the sister of Sir Joshua, was the author of an essay on taste, which she had...
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Essays on TasteEssays on TasteThe essays on taste taken from the work of John Gilbert Cooper and John Armstrong and reprinted in this issue are of interest and value to the student of the eighteenth century because they typify the shifting attitudes toward taste held by...
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Essays AestheticalEssays ÆstheticalThe Beautiful is one of the immortal themes. It cannot die; it grows not old. On the same day with the sun was beauty born, and its life runs parallel with the path of that great beautifier. As a subject for exposition, it...
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Against the GrainAgainst the GrainThe Floressas Des Esseintes, to judge by the various portraits preserved in the Chteau de Lourps, had originally been a family of stalwart troopers and stern cavalry men. Closely arrayed, side by side, in the old frames which their broad shoulders filled,...
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Abhandlungen über die FabelAbhandlungen über die FabelInhalt: I. Von dem Wesen der Fabel II. Von dem Gebrauche der Tiere in der Fabel III. Von der Einteilung der Fabeln IV. Von dem Vortrage der Fabeln V. Von einem besondern Nutzen der Fabeln in den Schulen Jede Erdichtung, womit...
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Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General LinguisticAesthetic as Science of Expression and General LinguisticThere are always Americas to be discovered: the most interesting in Europe. I can lay no claim to having discovered an America, but I do claim to have discovered a Columbus. His name is Benedetto Croce, and...
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The Art of Poetry: an Epistle to the PisosThe Art of Poetry: an Epistle to the Pisos - Q. Horatii Flacci Epistola Ad Pisones, De Arte Poetica.In a conversation, some months ago, I happened to mention to you the idea I had long entertained of that celebrated Epistle of Horace, commonly distinguished...
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Die Geburt der Tragödie: Versuch einer SelbstkritikDie Geburt der Tragödie: Versuch einer SelbstkritikWas auch diesem fragwrdigen Buche zu Grunde liegen mag: es muss eine Frage ersten Ranges und Reizes gewesen sein, noch dazu eine tief persnliche Frage, - Zeugniss dafr ist die Zeit, in der es entstand, trotz der es...
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Laokoon: Oder, Über die Grenzen der Malerei und PoesieLaokoon: Oder, Über die Grenzen der Malerei und PoesieDer erste, welcher die Malerei und Poesie miteinander verglich, war ein Mann von feinem Gefhle, der von beiden Knsten eine hnliche Wirkung auf sich versprte. Beide, empfand er, stellen uns abwesende Dinge als gegenwrtig, den Schein...
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Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich SchillerAesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller The special subject of the greater part of the letters and essays of Schiller contained in this volume is Aesthetics; and before passing to any remarks on his treatment of the subject it will be useful to offer a...
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Aristotle on the art of poetryAristotle on the art of poetry In the tenth book of the Republic, when Plato has completed his final burning denunciation of Poetry, the false Siren, the imitator of things which themselves are shadows, the ally of all that is low and weak in...
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The Principles of AestheticsThe Principles of AestheticsThis book has grown out of lectures to students at the University of Michigan and embodies my effort to express to them the nature and meaning of art. In writing it, I have sought to maintain scientific accuracy, yet at the...
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Biographia LiterariaBiographia Literaria So wenig er auch bestimmt seyn mag, andere zu belehren, so wuenscht er doch sich denen mitzutheilen, die er sich gleichgesinnt weis, (oder hofft,) deren Anzahl aber in der Breite der Welt zerstreut ist; er wuenscht sein Verhaeltniss zu den aeltesten Freunden...
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Concerning the Spiritual in ArtConcerning the Spiritual in ArtIt is no common thing to find an artist who, even if he be willing to try, is capable of expressing his aims and ideals with any clearness and moderation. Some people will say that any such capacity is a...
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Aesthetic PoetryAesthetic Poetry [213] THE "aesthetic" poetry is neither a mere reproduction of Greek or medieval poetry, nor only an idealisation of modern life and sentiment. The atmosphere on which its effect depends belongs to no simple form of poetry, no actual form of life....
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The Psychology of BeautyThe Psychology of BeautyTHE human being who thrills to the experience of beauty in nature and in art does not forever rest with that experience unquestioned. The day comes when he yearns to pierce the secret of his emotion, to discover what it is,...
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The Poetics of AristotleThe Poetics of Aristotle [Transcriber's Annotations and Conventions: the translator left intact some Greek words to illustrate a specific point of the original discourse. In this transcription, in order to retain the accuracy of this text, those words are rendered by spelling out each...
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