Art Philosophy

Author: (German) F. W. Schelling Translator: Wei Qingzheng Germany/Germany
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Publishing Date: 2005-07-01
Features: The Philosophy of Art is an important academic work by the renowned German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775–1854), holding long-term value in the fields of philosophy and literature and the arts. This book discusses the formation, development, characteristics, fundamental laws, and various forms, characteristics, and artistic laws of general art from a historical perspective. It provides incisive and classic-style on poetry, sculpture, painting, architecture, tragedy, comedy, music, drama, mythology, epic, and more, involving numerous European poets and writers such as Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Homer, Virgil, Dante, Goethe, Cervantes, Shakespeare, and Calderón, as well as art masters like Phidias, Titian, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, and Michelangelo. The Philosophy of Art was completed by Schelling during the mid-phase of his philosophical activities, i.e., his mature period (approximately 1801–1809).