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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2003
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| 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. |
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