Art and Scholasticism

Art and Scholasticism
AuthorJacques Maritain
Original titleArt et scolastique
LanguageFrench
SubjectAesthetics
Published1920
Publication placeFrance
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
ISBN978-1599868479

Art and Scholasticism (French: Art et scolastique) is a 1920 book by the French philosopher Jacques Maritain. It is considered his major contribution to aesthetics.[1] According to Gary Furnell, the work "was a key text that guided the work of writers such as Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon, Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, Francois Mauriac, Thomas Merton, John Howard Griffin, Flannery O’Connor and T.S. Eliot."[2] Maritain's Thomist-Aristotelian distinction between Art and Prudence was highly influential on the sculptor Eric Gill, and were developed further in the seminal essay on theological aesthetics, entitled 'Art and Sacrament', by poet and painter David Jones.[3]

References

  1. ^ Haldane 2005. p. 555.
  2. ^ Furnell 2015. p. 105.
  3. ^ Jones, David (1955). Epoch and Artist. Faber & Faber. pp. 143–179. ISBN 978-0571242054.

Bibliography

Books
  • Haldane, John (2005). Honderich, Ted (ed.). The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-926479-1.
Journals
  • Furnell, Gary (2015). "Artistic Freedom in Careful Differentiation". Quadrant. 59 (1/2).  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)


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