Art


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1 The generic notion of art, skill of mind in making.
2 Art and nature.
3 Causation in art and nature, artistic production compared with natural generation.
4 The role of matter and form in artistic and natural production, beauty versus utility.
5 The natural and the artificial as respectively the work of God and man.
6 Art as imitation.
7 Diverse classifications of the arts, useful and fine, liberal and servile.
8 The sources of art in experience, imagination, and inspiration.
9 Art and science.
10 The comparison and distinction of art and science.
11 The liberal arts as productive of science, means and methods of achieving knowledge.
12 Art as the application of science, the productive powers of knowledge.
13 The enjoyment of the fine arts.
14 Art as a source of pleasure or delight.
15 The judgment of excellence in art.
16 Art and emotion, expression, purgation, sublimation.
17 The useful arts.
18 The use of nature by art, agriculture, medicine, teaching.
19 The production of wealth, the industrial arts.
20 The arts of war.
21 The arts of government.
22 The moral and political significance of the arts.
23 The influence of the arts on character and citizenship, the role of the arts in the training of youth.
24 The regulation of the arts by the state or by religion, the problem of censorship.
25 Myths and theories concerning the origin of the arts.
26 The history of the arts, progress in art as measuring stages of civilization.


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