Philosophy of Art (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Hippolyte Taine
- First Published: 1865
- Type of Work: Aesthetics
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy, History, Arts
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Nineteenth century, Art or artists, Painting or painters, Sculpting or sculptors, Middle Ages, Greece or Greek people
Critical Evaluation:
Hippolyte Taine, author of The History of English Literature (1863-1869) and of The Origins of Contemporary France (1875-1894), combined a historical interest in his subjects with a philosophical one. He was able to do this because he regarded history and philosophy as sciences; he believed that a study of the nature of art and of art production could proceed, in the manner of any scientific study, by attention to the observable facts and by the framing of inductive generalizations. Consequently his Philosophy of Art is to some extent a...
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