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The three artistic functions
1. The cognitive function. Discussions between
philosophers. "Cognitive" an ambiguous word. is
cognitive if this word means the discovery of a
new {le} dimension of reality. But it cannot be
[connotation and denotation]
translated into methodological cognition (pictures, words
have a definite content) [Naturalism
{2. The anticipatory function} phasis on this function.
2. The anticipatory function. The Neo-Kantian
idealism in the theory of
pated in "Beauty": Its {devaluation} deteriorisation = shallow and its
right. {- even in the most disrupted forms of nature.}
3. The expressive
meaning of the reality described, not the subjectivity of the creator, but {ab-}
{solutely} the meaning, {expressed in the style}.
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1. A system of
representative. (The latter,
2. The special character of artistic symbols
{necessary rejection of symbolic art as bad art}. The re-
maining character of non-symbolic art.
3. {In the realm of visual arts}. The materials
taken from the perceived world painting beyond them-
selves not to something which could be grasped in
any other way, but to a level of being which appears
in the perceived material. The corresponding opening
of the soul for the perception in this level.
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1. The paints of identity (the marks of
bols
2. The paints of difference
a] objectively: The dimension of the ultimate
in religion, the dimension of meaning universally
in art. _ This includes the ultimate, {but} not
directly, b] but only through the medium of the in-
dependent religious symbols. The double symbolisation.
b] subjectively. The unconditionally obliging
character and the conditionally {elevating} inspiring character. Determi-
nation of the total life. The different character of inspiration.
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c] The two possible attitudes towards devotional and the aesthetic. (Concerts, pictures
in the Church)
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III. Some advices
1. If influence, resist the combination of
subject-matter with
context.
2. If
form show the need to distinguish the two attitudes
3. Center on
This will be mostly analysis of the human situation, to
which the Christian