The Meaning of Art (Art Ebook).pdf

The Meaning of Art
Praeger Publishers, Inc. | 1972 | ISBN: N/A | English | 282 pages | PDF | 30 MB

The simple word 'art' is most usually associated with those arts which we distinguish as 'plastic' or 'visual', but properly speaking it should include the arts of literature and music. There are certain characteristics common to all the arts, and though in these notes we are concerned only with the plastic arts, a definition of what is common to all the arts is the best starting point of our enquiry.