“In ancient Greece, the area of the temples, music, epic poetry and tragedy were the property of all citizens and were part of their daily lives. (…) When life itself is stripped of all humanity and denatures the man as part of this environment, it also makes the behavior of men becoming inhuman and unnatural.”
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Art and autonomy: the decisive contribution of modernity
The concept of genius was first formulated by the Enlightenment and later developed in German Idealism. Its function was to explain the differential nature of art when compared to the world or nature. From its origins and development, this concept took two contradictory directions. On one side it was assumed irrationality linked to a power…
The artist and his image. The concept of genius in the French Enlightenment.
“… the concept of genius made it possible to understand modern art as an autonomous value and aesthetics as a transforming force of consciousness.”