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Single Idea 23928
[filed under theme 21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 2. Aesthetic Attitude
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Full Idea
The contemplation of pure form leads to a state of extraordinary exaltation and complete detachment from the concerns of life.
Gist of Idea
Good art produces exaltation and detachment
Source
Clive Bell (Art [1913], I.III)
Book Ref
Bell,Clive: 'Art' [nk 2010], p.25
A Reaction
The last part is what gets the arts a bad name with the people who do deal with the concerns of life (which won't go away, even for an artist!). However, being totally trapped in the concerns of life is probably a recipe for misery.
The
18 ideas
from Clive Bell
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8115
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Only artists can discern significant form; other people must look to art to find it
[Bell,C, by Gardner]
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23922
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The word 'beauty' leads to confusion, because it denotes distinct emotions
[Bell,C]
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23921
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Our feeling for natural beauty is different from the aesthetic emotion of art
[Bell,C]
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23923
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Visual form can create a sublime mental state
[Bell,C]
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23925
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Mere copies of pictures are not significant - unless the copies are very exact
[Bell,C]
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23926
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Art is distinguished by its aesthetic emotion, which produces appropriate form
[Bell,C]
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23927
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Aestheticism invites artist to create beauty, but with no indication of how to do it
[Bell,C]
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23928
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Good art produces exaltation and detachment
[Bell,C]
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23924
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Maybe significant form gives us a feeling for ultimate reality
[Bell,C]
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23929
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We only see landscapes as artistic if we ignore their instrumental value
[Bell,C]
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23930
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Religion sees infinite value in some things, and irrelevance in the rest
[Bell,C]
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23931
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Significant form is the essence of art, which I believe expresses an emotion about reality
[Bell,C]
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23932
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Art is the expression of an emotion for ultimate reality
[Bell,C]
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22691
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Only artistic qualities matter in art, because they also have the highest moral value
[Bell,C]
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23933
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Aesthetic contemplation is the best and most intense mental state
[Bell,C]
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23934
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The only expression art could have is the emotion resulting from pure form
[Bell,C]
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23935
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Aesthetic experience is an exaltation which increases the possibilities of life
[Bell,C]
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20434
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'Form' is visual relations, and it is 'significant' if it moves us aesthetically; art needs both
[Bell,C, by Feagin]
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