The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 2 (of 4)
Hegel's Aesthetik
Hegel delivered his lectures on aesthetics in Berlin in the 1820s, and they were published after his death from his own notes and those of his students. This second volume of F. P. B. Osmaston's English translation, published in 1920, contains the part that traces how the ideal of beauty develops through three great types of art. Symbolic art, seen in the monuments of the ancient East, strains to find a form adequate to its meaning. Classical art, in Greek sculpture above all, achieves a perfect balance of idea and shape. Romantic art, from Christian painting to the world of chivalry, turns inward toward feeling and spirit. It is central to Hegel's philosophy of art. It is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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