The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 3 (of 4): Hegel's Aesthetik — Georg Hegel — John Shaqi
The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 3 (of 4): Hegel's Aesthetik
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[Footnote 226: _Innerlichkeit._ It is impossible to express Hegel's use
of this word by one expression. It combines intimacy, ideal union, and
inwardness of soul-life in its contrast to objective reality.]
[Footnote 227: That is the romantic type.]
[Footnote 228: _Die für sich seyende Subjektivität._ That is a process
that elaborates itself in independent form consonant to its own
substance.]
[Footnote 229: _Als dieses Subjekt._ That is, I assume, as the
distinctive personality of the artist. This must appear on the face of
the work as the crown of its independent type and concrete unity (_Zur
Spitze des Fürsichseyns_) but must not dominate it to the extent of
destroying all natural detail, not even to the extent of sculpture.]
[Footnote 230: _Zur Spitze des Fürsichseyns._ See note above.]
[Footnote 231: That is their union in sculpture.]
[Footnote 232: _Als solcher._ Hegel means that the universal present in
emotion is objective therein as part of the self-conscious life, but
is only presented in the concrete objective shape in the work of the
artist who therein suffers to escape the wholly personal side.]
[Footnote 233: _Sein Inneres_, his ideal substance, with more direct
reference to feeling.]
[Footnote 234: _Aus demselben in sich hineingehend._ I think what is
meant is that the material is idealized out of one of its spatial
conditions rather than that the artist selects his _medium_ in
consonance with his temperament and technique.]
[Footnote 235: That is, does not affect the stability and total effect
of the work. Of course the actual effect may vary.]
[Footnote 236: _Für diesen festen Punkt des Subjekts._]
[Footnote 237: _Die in sich besonderte Innerlichkeit._]
[Footnote 238: The distinctions in matter conditioned in Space.]
[Footnote 239: The meaning, if rather obscurely expressed, appears
to be this. The art of sculpture shows us when it treats the spatial
dimensions as essential that we must have the entire spatial form
to do this, and it shows us that if we wish to pass from the mere
presentment of bodily form to a fuller ideal quality we must contract
this exclusive appearance of physical matter.]
[Footnote 240: Lit., "Begins to be subjective." Begins to possess a
self-excluding centre of unity, _i.e._, self-identity.]
[Footnote 241: That is to the point of a real subject or ego.]
[Footnote 242: _E.g._, secure an abstract result in superficies only.]
[Footnote 243: Apart from artistic means.]
[Footnote 244: Though the statements here are suggestive, they are
obviously influenced by Hegel's belief in the false theory of light
propounded by Goethe.]
[Footnote 245: This is a direct reference to the Newtonian theory, of
course.]
[Footnote 246: _Zeichnung_ here refers to line rather than technical
excellence in draughtsmanship. It must be admitted Hegel's emphasis of
these two aspects is carried rather too far.]