item: #1 of 6
          id: 12896
      author: Calvert, George Henry
       title: Essays Æsthetical
        date: None
       words: 52537
      flesch: 62
     summary: Worcester quotes from Dr. Watts the following sound definition: In a proper sense, _virtue_ signifies duty toward men, and _religion_ duty to God. In strictness, this exaltation of intellectual action should be called _poetic_ imagination.
    keywords: action; beautiful; beauty; beuve; carlyle; critic; dante; day; divine; english; feeling; form; french; genius; good; having; heart; imagination; intellectual; inward; italian; life; light; lines; literary; love; man; men; mind; moral; nature; new; passages; people; poem; poetic; poetry; poets; power; prose; sainte; self; sense; sensibility; shakespeare; soul; spirit; spiritual; style; subject; things; thought; time; verse; words; work; world
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        item: #2 of 6
          id: 26942
      author: Lee, Vernon
       title: The Beautiful: An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics
        date: None
       words: 34106
      flesch: 47
     summary: CHAPTER VI ELEMENTS OF SHAPE LET us now examine some of these relations, not in the genealogical or hierarchic order assigned to them by experimental psychology, but in so far as they constitute the elements of _shape,_ and more especially as they illustrate the general principle which I want to impress on the Reader, namely: That the perception of Shape depends primarily upon movements which _we_ make, and the measurements and comparisons which _we_ institute. Such interplay of present, past and future is requisite for every kind of _meaning,_ for every _unit of thought_; and among others, of the meaning, the _thought,_ which we contemplate under the name of _shape.
    keywords: activities; aesthetic; art; aspects; attention; beautiful; case; colour; contemplation; emotion; empathic; empathy; existence; eye; lines; man; mountain; movement; perception; pleasure; qualities; reader; satisfaction; sensations; shape; things; thinking; thought; word
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        item: #3 of 6
          id: 29510
      author: Plotinus
       title: An Essay on the Beautiful, from the Greek of Plotinus
        date: None
       words: 8991
      flesch: 52
     summary: For the miserable man is not he who neglects to pursue fair colours, and beautiful corporeal forms; who is deprived of power, and falls from dominion and empire but he alone who is destitute of this divine possession, for which the ample dominion of the earth and sea and the still more extended empire of the heavens, must be relinquished and forgot, if, despising and leaving these far behind, we ever intend to arrive at substantial felicity, by beholding the beautiful itself. For such beauty, since it is supreme in dignity and excellence, cannot fail of rendering its votaries lovely and fair.
    keywords: beauty; eye; form; good; intellect; light; manner; matter; nature; soul; things
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        item: #4 of 6
          id: 51459
      author: Hogarth, William
       title: The Analysis of Beauty Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste
        date: None
       words: 46204
      flesch: 54
     summary: [59 B p. II], is twisted and bent after the same manner, as the last figure of the horn; but more ornamented, and with a greater number of other lines of the same twisted kind, winding round it with as quick returns as those of a screw. [Illustration: Fig. 49] Daily practising these movements with the hands and arms, as also with such other parts of the body as are capable of them, will in a short time render the whole person graceful and easy at pleasure.
    keywords: account; beauty; body; chapter; colours; eye; face; fig; figs; figure; form; general; grace; hath; idea; illustration; kind; light; lines; manner; mind; movements; nature; objects; parts; proportion; serpentine; shade; tho; time; use; variety; way
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        item: #5 of 6
          id: 6366
      author: Parker, De Witt H. (De Witt Henry)
       title: The Principles of Aesthetics
        date: None
       words: 103881
      flesch: 59
     summary: In ordinary experience, there are objects present to which the organism may actually respond, but in the aesthetic experience there are no real objects towards which a significant reaction can take place; in music, the source of the sound is obviously of no practical importance, while in such arts as painting and sculpture where interesting objects are represented, the objects themselves are absent; hence the reaction is never carried out, but remains incipient, a vague feeling which, finding no object upon which it may work itself off, is suffused upon the sensation. Here the great example is France, where the limitations of the different arts have been best recognized all the while the highest level of perfection has been reached in many arts contemporaneously.
    keywords: action; aesthetic; appreciation; art; artist; arts; attention; beauty; body; character; color; course; effect; elements; emotions; end; example; experience; expression; fact; feeling; form; good; hand; harmony; human; ideas; image; imagination; life; lines; love; man; meaning; medium; men; mind; movement; music; nature; new; object; order; painting; people; picture; poetry; point; purpose; real; rhythm; sculpture; sense; sound; space; story; theory; things; thought; time; tones; unity; value; view; way; words; work; world
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        item: #6 of 6
          id: 9306
      author: Croce, Benedetto
       title: Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
        date: None
       words: 99680
      flesch: 56
     summary: The impossibility of choice of content completes the theorem of the _independence of art_, and is also the only legitimate meaning of the expression: _art for art's sake_. It is important to make clear that as the existence of the hedonistic side in every spiritual activity has given rise to the confusion between the aesthetic activity and the useful or pleasurable, so the existence, or, better, the possibility of constructing this physical side, has generated the confusion between _aesthetic_ expression and expression _in the naturalistic sense_; between a spiritual fact, that is to say, and a mechanical and passive fact (not to say, between a concrete reality and an abstraction or fiction).
    keywords: action; activity; aesthetic; art; artist; beauty; case; century; concept; content; criticism; critique; expression; fact; feeling; form; good; history; human; ideas; imagination; impressions; individual; intellectual; intuition; knowledge; language; life; logic; man; means; moral; nature; object; order; philosophy; physical; place; pleasure; poetry; problem; reality; reason; science; second; sense; spirit; taste; theory; things; thought; time; truth; ugly; use; value; view; way; word; work
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