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Art and Imagination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

H. Morris-Jones
Affiliation:
University College of North Wales, Bangor

Extract

The vocabulary of the art-critic seems to consist of two groups of words, those that refer to the formal or surface properties of the work of art, and those which refer to properties we can at first loosely term imaginative. The first group consists of words and phrases like “unity” (sometimes “organic unity”), “coherence”, “consistency”, “compactness”, “elegance”, and so on. The way such words are cashed will consist in an analysis of the determinate formal qualities of the work of art as evidence of the skill of the artist as a craftsman.

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Articles
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1959

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References

page 205 note 1 In Aesthetics and Language. Blackwell, 1954.

page 206 note 1 Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1952–3.

page 207 note 1 Vide Gallie: “The Function of Philosophical Aesthetics.” Mind, 1948.

page 208 note 1 The Principles of Art, Oxford, 1938. See especially Book I, Chapter II.Google Scholar

page 210 note 1 Chapter XIV. The Artist and the Community.