People For The Humanities
The concept of art as kind has its roots within the philosophy of Kant, and was developed in the early twentieth century by Roger Fry and Clive Bell. More just lately, thinkers influenced by Martin Heidegger have interpreted art as the means by which a community develops for itself a medium for self-expression and interpretation. Larry Shiner has described nice Art art as “not an essence or a destiny but something we have made. Art as we’ve typically understood it is a European invention barely two hundred years old.” Each of the 9 muses of historical Greece oversaw a unique…Continue Reading