Rethinking the Arts after Hegel
From Architecture to Motion Pictures
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Richard Dien Winfield
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Painting and Artistic Style
The possibilities of painting in the Symbolic style obviously build upon the shapes taken by Symbolic sculpture. The way Symbolic sculptors give plastic configuration to their worldview of the divine and human...
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The Stylistics of Sculpture
Hegel considers sculpture to be so fundamentally suited to the Classical style that he dismisses any Symbolic or Romantic sculptural efforts as devoid of aesthetically noteworthy achievement. Nonetheless, Hege...
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The Aesthetics of Literary Genres
Lyric, Epic, and Drama have perennially been acknowledged to be the fundamental genres of literature, but their defining identity and status has been embroiled in controversy. Although the division of literary...
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Negation, Contradiction, and Hegel’s Emancipation of Truth, Right, and Beauty
Thinkers have never been able to deny the centrality of negation and contradiction in everything human, despite all their efforts to banish both from the domains of truth, right, and beauty. Unless we properly...
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Pure Cinema as Fine Art
Few can deny that today motion pictures have become an art of unrivaled public attention and unrivaled mobilization of creative resources. Whether relying upon chemical or digital photography and video, with d...
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The Distinguishing Aesthetics of Music
Music, more than any other fine art, seems to have a direct hold on our humanity. Whereas we can walk through buildings with little notice of their architecture, ignore sculptures and paintings that surround u...
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The General Aesthetics of Architecture
A systematic investigation of the individual arts must begin with all the conceptual resources necessary to determine any individual art whatsoever, but not presuppose anything specific to an individual art.
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The Unique Aesthetic Achievement of Sculpture
The individual arts each seem to be a perennial option for artistic creation, at least so long as the means for producing them are available. The contingencies of technological development have spawned new art...
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Literature as Fine Art
Language poses great challenges and great opportunities as a medium of fine art. These challenges and opportunities apply to both form and content.
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Painting as Paradigmatic Graphic Fine Art
Graphic art, broadly considered, includes all fine art that creates static visual images on a two-dimensional surface. These creations include paintings, drawings, all types of prints, etchings, and lithograph...
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The Stylistics of Literature
Despite the universal scope of literature, every literary creation makes use of languages that belong to specific linguistic communities, whose shared values are reflected in the works of fine art that express...
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Photography as a Graphic Fine Art
Photography has had no trouble swee** the modern world as a mass instrument of public and private reportage and memorialization, but it has never ceased facing special challenges to qualify as a bonafide bra...
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The Total Art of Hybrid Cinema
All the preceding specifications of film and film genres pertain to pure cinema, that is, to motion pictures independently of any admixture of other artistic media. Consequently, these specifications all are i...
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The Systematic Division of the Individual Arts
The final, most concrete, and most challenging part of aesthetics is the philosophy of the individual arts. Conceiving the individual arts concerns the different media made use of by artistic expression. Their...
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The Aesthetics of Architectural Style
Lukács is not alone is singling out architecture for a special attachment to universal “social” interests and a corresponding adherence to artistic tradition. Nicolai Hartmann makes a similar argument. Given t...
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Musical Style
All the preceding considerations apply to music as an individual art and are ingredient in any of its stylistic realizations. The systematic consideration of the musical medium must determine how these generic...
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Introduction
The introduction introduces the project of a universal biology, which unravels the mystery of life by employing the categories specific to biological process, instead of relying on those suited for conceiving ...
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The Basic Life Processes
This chapter turns to Kant’s account of the internal teleology life to conceive the basic life processes: the complementary functionality of organic unity, metabolism, and reproduction. The chapter further exp...
