Herder's Relation to the Aesthetic Theory of His Time: A Contribution Based on the Fourth Critical WäldchenUniversity of Chicago, 1920 - 124 pàgines |
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Herder's Relation to the Aesthetic Theory of His Time: A Contribution Based ... Malcolm Howard Dewey Visualització completa - 1920 |
Herder's Relation to the Aesthetic Theory of His Time: A Contribution Based ... Malcolm Howard Dewey Visualització completa - 1920 |
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Pàgina 4 - A Painter, if he has any Genius, understands the Truth and Unity of Design; and knows he is even then unnatural, when he follows Nature too close, and strictly copys Life.
Pàgina 15 - ... terror is a passion which always produces delight when it does not press too close, and pity is a passion accompanied with pleasure, because it arises from love and social affection.
Pàgina 20 - On the whole it appears to me, that what is called taste, in its most general acceptation, is not a simple idea, but is partly made up of a perception of the primary pleasures of sense, of the secondary pleasures of the imagination, and of the conclusions of the reasoning faculty, concerning the various relations of these, and concerning the human passions, manners, and actions.
Pàgina 15 - Whenever we are formed by nature to any active purpose, the passion which animates us to it is attended with delight, or a pleasure of some kind, let the subject-matter be what it will...
Pàgina 15 - ... efforts of poetry, painting, and music; and when you have collected your audience, just at the moment when their minds are erect with expectation, let it be reported that a state criminal of high rank is on the point of being executed in the adjoining square ; in a moment the emptiness of the theatre would demonstrate the comparative weakness of the imitative arts, and proclaim the triumph of the real sympathy.
Pàgina 4 - And thus, after all, the most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.™ True features make the beauty of a face and true proportions, the beauty of architecture as true measures, that of harmony and music. In poetry, which is all fable, truth still is the perfection.
Pàgina 4 - ... and strictly copies life. For his art allows him not to bring all nature into his piece but a part only. However, his piece, if it be beautiful and carries truth, must be a whole by itself, complete, independent and withal as great and comprehensive as he can make it. So that particulars, on this occasion, must yield to the general design and all things be subservient to that which is principal...
Pàgina 1 - We know that every creature has a private good and interest of his own, which Nature has compelled him to seek, by all the advantages afforded him within the compass of his make. We know that there is in reality a right and a wrong state of every creature, and that his right one is by nature forwarded and by himself affectionately sought.
Pàgina 18 - ... beauty is, for the greater part, some quality in bodies acting mechanically upon the human mind by the intervention of the senses.
Pàgina 3 - A man is by nothing so much himself as by his temper and the character of his passions and affections. If he loses what is manly and worthy in these, he is as much lost to himself as when he loses his memory and understanding.