Project Gutenberg 2017-08-27 Public domain in the USA. 269 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 1770 1831 Hegel, G. W. F. (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich) Osmaston, Francis Plumptre Beresford 1857 1925 Osmaston, Francis P. (Francis Plumptre) The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 2 (of 4) Hegel's Aesthetik Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lectures_on_Aesthetics Produced by Laura Natal Rodriguez and Marc D'Hooghe at Free Literature (online soon in an extended version,also linking to free sources for education worldwide ... MOOC's, educational materials,...) Images generously made available by the Internet Archive.) "The Philosophy of Fine Art, Volume 2" by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is a philosophical treatise written in the early 19th century. This volume explores the evolution of the idea of beauty within the context of various art forms, discussing symbolic, classical, and romantic types of art. Hegel delves into metaphysics, aesthetics, and the nature of artistic expression, offering a framework to understand how art embodies and evolves the ideal. At the start of this volume, Hegel introduces the concept of symbolism in art, framing it as both a critical phase in the evolution of artistic expression and a reflection of humanity's quest for meaning through beauty. He differentiates between unconscious symbolism, where the significance of forms is not yet fully realized, and the conscious awareness of symbols in more developed artistic traditions. Hegel posits that the early forms of art, tied closely to religious consciousness and wonder, seek to express a unity of significance and form, serving as a foundation for the subsequent expression of the human spirit in classical art and beyond. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 33.2 (College-level). Difficult to read. en Aesthetics N Text Category: Art Category: Philosophy & Ethics 1138240 2025-06-22T07:50:31.406818 text/html 1125569 2024-10-23T02:34:48 text/html 721664 2025-06-22T07:50:46.166695 application/epub+zip 736889 2025-06-22T07:50:34.003729 application/epub+zip 472761 2025-06-22T07:50:32.667690 application/epub+zip 1048373 2025-06-22T07:50:54.506608 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 964835 2025-06-22T07:50:44.544687 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 705028 2022-08-25T05:07:48.669473 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 973355 2025-06-22T07:50:29.583750 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 953315 2024-10-23T02:34:48 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17213 2025-06-22T07:50:54.674596 application/rdf+xml 11950 2025-06-22T07:50:32.851736 image/jpeg 2143 2025-06-22T07:50:32.758746 image/jpeg 857738 2025-06-22T07:50:31.508768 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog de.wikipedia en.wikipedia