work of art

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness

Works of art are landscapes of the mind. (Ted Godwin)

is a being of sensation and nothing else: It exists in itself.

The work of art is a being of sensation and nothing else: it exist in itself.

is a celebration of ordinary experience on the grounds that experience, however crude, if authentic, brings us closer to the intrinsic nature of aesthetic experience than an ob ject already set apart from any other mode of experience.

Dewey (1934) held that works of art, including theatrical works, are 'celebrations, recognized as such, of ordinary experience. ' He was, of course, reject ing the tendency in capitalist societies to set art on a pedestal, .detached from human life, but commercially valuable terms that were decided by esoteric experts. Dewey said: 'Even a crude experience, if authentically an experience, is. more fit t.o give a clue to the intrinsic nature of aesthetic expenence than is an ob ject already set apart from any other mode of exp:rience'

A piece of art is a compact form of the universe.

is a confession. For the guilty conscience needs to confess.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

is a corner of nature seen through a temperament.

A work of art is a corner of nature seen through a temperament. (Emile Zola)

work of art, n.Definitions

work of art