In the canon
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
G.W.F. Hegel
- Form
- Form Philosophy
- Year
- Year 1835
- Originally in
- Originally in German
- Pages
- Pages 250
Art, Hegel tells a crowded Berlin lecture hall, is the Idea made sensuous: truth given a shape the eye can hold. He clears the ground first, throwing out the old charge that art is mere illusion or agreeable play, then puts the question that catches you standing too long in front of a painting.
In all these respects art is, and remains for us, on the side of its highest destiny, a thing of the past.
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