Arts of the Beautiful (Dalkey Archive Scholarly)

With his usual lucidity, Etienne Gilson addresses the idea that art is the making of beauty for beautys own sake. By distinguishing between aesthetics, which promotes art as a form of knowledge, and philosophy, which focuses on the presence of the artists own talent or genius, Gilson maintains that art belongs to a different category entirely, the category of making. Gilsons intellectually stimulating meditation on the relation of beauty and art is indispensable to philosophers and artists alike.