The Realization of the Beautiful: On Henry van de Velde's Aesthetic Theory

The unhistorical (the power to forget) and the super-historical (art and religion) are the natural antidotes against the overpowering of life by history; they are the cures for the historical disease. We who are sick of the disease may suffer a little from the antidote. But this is no proof that the...

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Main Author: Haddad, Elie (author)
Format: article
Published: 2003
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10725/4722
https://doi.org/10.1080/10331867.2003.10525173
http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10331867.2003.10525173
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Summary:The unhistorical (the power to forget) and the super-historical (art and religion) are the natural antidotes against the overpowering of life by history; they are the cures for the historical disease. We who are sick of the disease may suffer a little from the antidote. But this is no proof that the treatment we have chosen is wrong.