The Conception of Art (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Poore, Henry Rankin

9780332043647: The Conception of Art (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0332043649 ISBN 13: 9780332043647

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Conception of Art

The need to dignify this state of mental inactivity by supplying it with a name, as an added sense, becomes less apparent as the science of aesthetics develops, and which now can be regarded only as an accommodation which those affecting art should outgrow.

Every one who confronts a work of art forms an opinion, and few deny themselves an ex pression of it. This opinion is usually based on some familiar notion concerning art in general, by which it is measured. One cannot talk long with a layman upon the subject of art before knowing what his determining idea is.

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