Summary
Milan Galović: Beauty as the radiance of truth
Beauty and truth in art
A century of the collapse of the metaphysical world and the wandering of beauty
Art as the happening of the world
A discussion occupied with the philosophical questioning of art, i.e. the consideration of art with regard to its relationship with truth and the possibility of bringing to light the truth of battle and participation in the seriousness of man's true life. After the introductory part, in which he gives a brief historical overview of the philosophical approach to the essence of art, with an emphasis on Plato, Aristotle, Schelling and Hegel, and tries to outline the relationship between art and philosophy throughout history, the author begins the first part of the discussion dedicated to the manifestations or the manifest forms of the beautiful and true in art. He pays special attention to understanding and experiencing beauty in religious art and the Middle Ages, as well as Renaissance art. The second part deals with the nineteenth century, which the author marks as the century of the collapse of the metaphysical world and the wandering of beauty, as well as the period of the appearance of a large number of diverse aesthetics. The third part, "Art as the happening of the world", is dedicated to the experience of art from the mythical Homeric age to the modern art of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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