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Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry /

Maritain, Jacques

Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry / Jacques Maritain. - 1 online resource (456 p.) : 70 b/w illus. - The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts ; 35 .

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Texts Without Comment -- List of Plates -- Publisher's Note -- Acknowledgments -- Preliminary Note -- I. Poetry, Man, and Things -- II. Art as a Virtue of the Practical Intellect -- III. The Preconscious Life of the Intellect -- IV. The Preconscious Life of the Intellect -- V. Poetry and Beauty -- VI. Beauty and Modern Painting -- VII. Poetic Experience and Poetic Sense -- VIII. The Internalization of Music -- IX. The Three Epiphanies of Creative Intuition -- Index

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The classic work on the sublime interplay between the arts and poeticsThis book explores the rich and complex relationship between art and poetry, shedding invaluable light on what makes each art form unique yet wholly interdependent. Jacques Maritain insists on the part played by the intellect as well as the imagination, showing how poetry has its source in the preconceptual activity of the rational mind. As Maritain argues, intellect is not merely logical and conceptual reason. Rather, it carries on an exceedingly more profound and obscure life, one that is revealed to us as we seek to penetrate the hidden recesses of poetic and artistic activity. Incisive and authoritative, this illuminating book is the product of a lifelong reflection on the meaning of artistic expression in all its varied forms.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9780691251769

10.1515/9780691251769 doi


Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).
ART / Criticism.

Ajanta Caves, India, fresco, pl. Apollo of Attica, pl. Avalokitesvara, Sleeping, pl. Bhuvaneśvara, India, temple at, pl. Calf-Bearer (Acropolis), pl. Cézanne, Paul. Degas, Edgar. Ellora, India, temple at, pl. Hsu Shih-ch’ang, Mountain Landscape, pl. Kailasa Temple, Ellora, pl. Ku K’ai-chih, The Toilet Scene, pl. Lingaraja, Temple of, at Bhuvanesvara, pl. Plato. Sidney, Sir Philip, An Apologie for Poetrie. Vergil. art: abstract. beauty, T. color. emotion. imagination. intellect/reason: and art. intentio. magic: in an improper sense. man: and beauty. mousikè. nature: and abstract art. poetry: and art. sign.

BF408

701.15