Contributions

  • Salvator Attanasio (Translator) - Contributor

Publication

2001-02-01 - Dalkey Archive Press

Language

English

Word Count

70,500 words, Guess

Page Count

282 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101564782549
  • ISBN-139781564782540
  • Library of Congress Control Number00058952
  • OCLC Control Number44634323
  • Better World Books9781564782540
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCN8530.G5513 2001
  • LCCN8530 .G5513 2001

Description

"An engaging companion piece to The Arts of the Beautiful, this volume advances Etienne Gilson's theories about art as a process of "making" by focusing on the substances available to an artist. The basis for his argument is grounded in the distinction between arts concerned with the creation of beauty and arts that are primarily functional. He takes up in turn: architecture, sculpture, painting, music, dance, poetry, and the theater, analyzing in each the basic materials afforded that artist, the possibilities of artistic form, and the means of transformation and creation."--BOOK JACKET.

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