What Is Art? · Character
Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosopher whose pessimism and art theory are discussed.
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Arthur Schopenhauer shows up with force in Chapter III: Aesthetic Theories of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Opposes Hegel, viewing beauty as objectification of Will on various planes.
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- True and counterfeit artists
- Moral and national artists
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