The Arts of the Beautiful

By Étienne Gilson

Book Overview

With his usual lucidity, Etienne Gilson addresses the idea that "art is the making of beauty for beauty's own sake." By distinguishing between aesthetics, which promotes art as a form of knowledge,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0007DR40E
• ISBN13: 9781111412371
• Release Date: January 1965
• Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.