 | Albert Mordell - 1921 - 338 pagine
...art is a means of curing oneself of sexual neurosis. "By elaborating his impressions," says Croce, "man frees himself from them. By objectifying them,...another aspect and another formula of its character and activity. Activity is the deliverer, just because it drives away passivity." Finely put, indeed,... | |
 | K. M. Khadye - 1922 - 84 pagine
...impressions and thus freeing oneself from them- And this latter is Croce's Katharsis. He says: — "by elaborating his impressions man frees himself...another aspect and another formula of its character of activity. Activity is the deliverer just because it drives away passivity." 14 Chapter II. CEOCE'S... | |
 | John George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson - 1924 - 556 pagine
...work of ' liberation ' — a term which reminds us of the principle expressed in the Aesthetic, that 'by elaborating his impressions, man frees himself...removes them from him and makes himself their superior ' — a function of art which belongs to its character of activity. (Aesthetic as Science of Expression,... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of English - 1925 - 252 pagine
...philosophers of literature. The most luminous statement is the following by Croce in his Aesthetic.11 " By elaborating his impressions man frees himself from...attribute to artists both the maximum of sensibility and the maximum of insensibility or Olympian serenity. The two characters are compatible, for they... | |
 | Baker Brownell - 1926 - 476 pagine
...concepts. "By elaborating his impressions," says Croce, who is technically an idealist in philosophy, "man frees himself from them. By objectifying them,...another aspect and another formula of its character of activity. Activity is the deliverer, just because it drives aways passivity." Art from this point... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1971 - 420 pagine
...recent form of this doctrine (The Essence of Aesthettc, trans. Douglas Ainslie, London, 19ai, p. a1): 'By elaborating his impressions, man frees himself...removes them from him and makes himself their superior.' For an expanded version, see Yrjo Him, Origuts of Art (London, lqOo), pp. I0aff. 67. Collected Writingr,... | |
 | Rupert Clendon Lodge - 1953 - 336 pagine
...Protean clutch', and has turned it into an 'uberwundener Standpunkt'. (Cf., eg Croce, op. cit., p. 21, 'By elaborating his impressions, man frees himself...liberating and purifying function of art is another aspect . . . of its character as activity. Activity is the deliverer, because it drives away passivity.' I... | |
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... a melting furnace formless pieces of bronze and choicest statuettes. Those choicest statuettes must be melted just like the pieces of bronze, before there can be a new statue. The old expressions must descend again to the level of impressions, in... 