A topic within Aesthetics, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.
2 works
Eugène Véron
Argues that art is the expression of human emotion through whatever means a given art form allows, and rejects both formal beauty and moral usefulness as the true test of artistic value.
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Argues that art is identical with intuition and intuition with expression, so that a work of art is complete the moment an image is clearly formed in the mind, before any physical execution.
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