Aesthetics

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Excerpt from Aesthetics: A Study of the Fine Arts in Theory and Practice Here is a volume of essays on aesthetics and the fine arts. It has been written from a viewpoint which is very old and at the same time very new. According to that philosophy by which Europe and America have lived during recent centuries, a nominalistic philosophy colored by Locke's distinction between primary physical "qualities" of relation and secondary sensational qualities of feeling, value was supposed to be entirely a matter of impressions, and hence subjective, while relations were entirely a matter of measurement, and hence objective. Thus art was held to be subjective and science alone believed to be objective. On such a scheme, science prospered, but art, despite its enormous personal claims, was relegated to an inferior position. The greater amount of discussion which has taken place in recent decades concerning the meaning of art and the criticism of works of art has been maintained at a particularly low level because of the assumed subjective postulate. Interpretations of theory degenerated and judgments of works of art declined into questions of individual taste. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.