Art and Education

Excerpt from Art and Education Contemporary theories of art generally suffer from inconsistency. They are only in part interpretations of art and of experience as these are to be observed today; in part, they represent a survival of opinions and as sumptious inherited from the Greeks. According to Greek theory, art is a form of practice, and so incurs the reproach of being concerned with a merely subjec tive, changing and imperfect world. This was true of all arts, of those now classified as fine as well as of the useful crafts practised by the artisan. In contrast with both, science was regarded as a revelation - in fact, the only true revelation - Of reality. It was thought to be through science alone that access is pro vided to the world as it is in itself, not colored or dis torted by human Wants or preferences. Art corre sponded to production, science to contemplation, and the productive was branded as inferior, an activity proper only to mechanics and Slaves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.