Art and Scholasticism

Art and Scholasticism with Other Essays by Jacques Maritain, 114 pages

In his short but influential essay "Art and Scholasticism", Maritain applies the tools of scholastic philosophy to the problems of art and aesthetics.  The result is a careful examination of the relationships between art and truth, art and goodness, and art and man.  In Maritain's analysis, the artist mimics the Creator in the work of incarnating the spiritual in the physical, a work which can be undertaken with saintly humility or Luciferian pride.

This collection also includes "The Frontiers of Poetry", which considers the metaphysical nature of poetry, and "Some Reflections Upon Religious Art", which addresses problems which arise when art is self-consciously religious.