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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Passatges populars
Pàgina 14 - 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 25 - ... 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 30 - 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 25 - 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 25 - ... 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 14 - 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 14 - ... 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 28 - ... beauty is, for the greater part, some quality in bodies acting mechanically upon the human mind by the intervention of the senses.
Pàgina 13 - 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.
Pàgina 15 - ... is measured from the perfection of Nature in her just adapting of every limb and proportion to the activity, strength, dexterity, life and vigour of the particular species or animal designed. Thus beauty and truth are plainly joined with the notion of utility and convenience, even in the apprehension of every ingenious artist, the architect, the statuary, or the painter.