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.
Document Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1007/978-94-017-3411-0_2
Repository Citation
Kimmel, L. (2000). Paradox and Metaphor: An Integrity of the Arts. Analecta Husserliana, 63, 5-16. doi: 10.1007/978-94-017-3411-0_2
Publication Information
Analecta Husserliana