From Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn“: I took a good gap and a stretch, and was just going to unhitch and start when I heard a sound away over the water. I listened. Pretty soon I made it out. It was that dull kind of a regular sound that comes from oars working in rowlocks when it’s a … Read More
The Appreciation of Art is a Use of Emotional Ability (with an Example from F. Scott Fitzgerald)
We’ve been talking about how the appreciation of art is a use of emotional ability as well as intellectual ability. Here’s a powerful example from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” This is packed with the stuff we look for in a work of art. Turn your eyes on this, read every word with your whole heart, and see if … Read More
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Vermeer’s “The Art of Painting” The consciousness of what makes a work of art has been won and lost by civilizations repeatedly throughout the ages. In civilizations where that consciousness is widespread among the public, many timeless works of art are produced. A few examples (a very partial and incomplete list):
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