Art & Scholasticism Format:Paperback Neither platitudinous social commentary nor

Neither platitudinous social commentary nor assertions of economic utopianism

sentimentalism his theory of the intelligence

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Winner of the Grand prix de poésie de l’Académie française in 1962

Art & Scholasticism Format:Paperback Neither platitudinous social commentary norBy Jacques Maritain Introduction by Brian Barbour Art & Scholasticism is Jacques Maritains classic argument for an objective view of both art and the artist. Like T. S. Eliot, Maritain sees the artist as essentially a maker or craftsman and not the vatic oracle of romanticisms myth. Maritain provides a strong dissenting perspective on the lazy, self flattering artistic assumptions of the past two centuries. Brian Barbours Introduction gives a