Download or read book The Arts of the Beautiful written by Etienne Gilson and published by Dalkey Archive Scholarly. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his usual lucidity, Etienne Gilson addresses the idea that "art is the making of beauty for beauty's own sake." By distinguishing between aesthetics, which promotes art as a form of knowledge, and philosophy, which focuses on the presence of the artist's own talent or genius, Gilson maintains that art belongs to a different category entirely, the category of "making." Gilson's intellectually stimulating meditation on the relation of beauty and art is indispensable to philosophers and artists alike.