"Paradox and Metaphor: An Integrity of the Arts" by Lawrence Kimmel
 

Document Type

Post-Print

Publication Date

2000

Abstract

Art is movement, movement is life. Surprisingly, the spareness of paradox in art promotes a fullness of life. We must first speak as simply as possible about art as a fundamental human activity. Only then can we hope to say something of consequence about the so-called “fine arts” — which may be misleading as a description. In substance, the reference “fine art” simply means useless art: “fine” as being free from utility. Art is imaginatively productive, it makes something, whether painting, poem, or partita. But this making has no independent utility, and its character as a work of art is such that it is neither used up nor utilized as a means to something else.

Editor

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

Identifier

10.1007/978-94-017-3411-0_2

Publisher

Springer

City

Dordrecht

ISBN

9789048153350, 9789401734110

Publication Information

Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research

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