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. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ...absolute work of Art, which is the highest of all, is that in which the individual mind, although finite, rising to the consciousness of the infinite within itself, at once receives theoretically into itself the whole ideal content of the Beautiful, as presented in the objective work of Art, and at the ...
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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. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ...absolute work of Art, which is the highest of all, is that in which the individual mind, although finite, rising to the consciousness of the infinite within itself, at once receives theoretically into itself the whole ideal content of the Beautiful, as presented in the objective work of Art, and at the same time again reproduces it out of itself. The mind thus becomes one with the active, living power and idea of the Beautiful. This is the highest stage and condition of mind attainable in Art. It is the absolute and perfect union of practical design and theoretical contemplation, as realised in the spiritual creations of poetry, the highest of the Arts. It thus combines in principle and essence the lower utilitarian and objective forms. The work of Art, as such, furnishes the highest and purest pleasure, involving as it does a perfect activity realising its own end, and bringing with it the repose of the spirit in theoretical contemplation. 2. A further distinction in the Beautiful, rests upon the relation of the embodied ideal or spiritual idea to the material in which it is represented. Here the differences are determined by the predominance of the one or the other of the two sides; or by their being in equal proportion, so that there is a relation of equality and balance between them. In connection with this second distinction of the Beautiful, we have the historical development of Art, and this unfolds the different forms of Art.--First, the work of Art appears in a purely external and direct form, --the Beautiful being exhibited mainly in material objects. The thought or subjective ideal is, indeed, present; but it is in a manner sunk in the material, and is often exhibited only as an ornamentation on the form of the object. This..
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