Hegel's Lectures on Fine Art — Articles — Ilario Colli

Based in New York City, Ilario Colli is an author, philosopher and former classical music journalist. He has been called “Australia’s leading classical music critic” and his first published book, In Art as in Life, has been described as “a major achievement for any writer.”his achievements also include a groundbreaking essay on the sublime and the founding of a new art movement, ‘Sublimism’.

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The Infinite Purposiveness of Fine Art

Dec 10

Dec 10 The Infinite Purposiveness of Fine Art

Drawing to a certain extent upon Kant, but mostly upon observations from the introduction to Hegel’s Lectures on Fine Art, this paper sets out to explore fine art’s infinite purposiveness, firstly by contrasting it to form, then to fine art’s finite counterpart, and finally by integrating it with Hegel’s notion of ‘Spirit’ (Geist).