Art

Contents

What is art? The aesthetic hypothesis -- Aesthetics and Post-Impressionism -- The metaphysical hypothesis -- Art and life. Art and religion -- Art and history -- Art and ethics -- The Christian slope. The rise of Christian art -- Greatness and decline -- The classical Renaissance and its diseases -- Alid ex alio -- The movement. The debt to Cézanne -- Simplification and design -- The pathetic fallacy -- The future. Society and art -- Art and society.