دانلود کتاب The Enjoyment of Art (Classic Reprint)

PREFACETHE following pages are the answer toquestions which a young man asked himselfwhen, fresh from the university, hefound himself adrift in the great galleriesof Europe. As he stood helpless and confusedin the presence of the visible expressionsof the spirit of man in so many agesand so many lands, one question recurredinsistently: Why are these pictures?What is the meaning of all this strivingafter expression? What was the aim ofthese men who have left their record here?What was their moving impulse? Why,why does the human spirit seek to nlanifestitself in forn1S which we call beautiful? He tun1ed to histories of art and to biographiesof artists, but he found no answerto the" Why?" The philosophers withtheir theories of resthetics helped him littleto understand the dignity and force of thisportrait or the beauty of that landscape.In the conversation of his artist friendsthere was no enlightenment, for they talkedabout "values" and Table of Contents CONTENTS; PAGE; I THE PICTURE AND THE MAN • J; II THE WORK OF ART AS SYMBOL 19;