The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Arts: Translated from the German with Notes and Prefatory EssayHegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Arts: Translated from the German with Notes and Prefatory Essay
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Aesthetics; Art -- Philosophy
[170] Posited or laid down to be ideal; almost = pronounced or made
_to be_ in the sense of _not being_; e.g. musical sound is "ideal" as
existing, _qua_ work of art, in memory only, the moment in which it
is actually heard being fugitive; a picture, in respect of the third
dimension, which has to be read into it; and poetry is almost wholly
ideal, _i.e._ uses hardly any sensuous element, but appeals almost
entirely to what exists _in the mind_. "Subdivided," "_besondert_,"
like "_particularisirt_" above; because of the variety and diversity
present in the mere material of colours, musical sounds, and ideas.
[171] Again, the subject of a Turner or Teniers is not objectively
universal, in the simplest sense; not something that is actually and
literally the same everywhere and for every one. And both painting and
music (immediately sensuous elements) are less completely amalgamated
with the ideal, represent it less solidly and thoroughly than the
statue, so far as the ideal is itself external or plastic.
[172] The greater affinity of Romantic art with the movement and
variety of the modern spirit displays itself not only in the
greater flexibility of painting, music, or poetry, as compared with
architecture and sculpture, but in the fact that the Romantic type
contains these three arts at least, while the Symbolic and Classical
types had only one art each.
[173] This is drawn from Goethe's doctrine of colour, which Hegel
unfortunately adopted in opposition to Newton's theory.
[174] He means landscape, principally.
[175] "_Aufheben_," used pregnantly by Hegel to mean _both_ "cancel,"
"annul," _and_, "preserve," "fix in mind," "idealize." The use of this
word is a cardinal point of his dialectic. See "Wiss. der Logik.,"
i. 104. I know of no equivalent but "put by," provincial Scotch "put
past." The negation of space is an attribute of music. The parts of
a chord are no more in space than are the parts of a judgment. Hegel
expresses this by saying that music idealizes space and concentrates it
into a point.
[176] The parts of space, though external to each other, are not
distinguished by qualitative peculiarities.
[177] "_Aufheben._"
[178] "Ideality of matter:" the distinctively material attribute of a
sonorous body, its extension, only appears in its sound indirectly, or
inferentially, by modifying the nature of the sound. It is, therefore,
"idealized."
[179] Succession in time is a degree more "ideal" than co-existence in
space, because it exists solely in the medium of memory.
[180] "_Seele_:" mind on its individual side, as a particular feeling
subject. "_Geist_" is rather mind as the common nature of intelligence.
Thus in feeling and self-feeling, mind is said to concentrate itself
into a soul.
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