Art & Scholasticism Format:Paperback Neither platitudinous social commentary nor

Neither platitudinous social commentary nor assertions of economic utopianism

these ten tales from the pen of an American master hauntingly reveal the shape and sense of our world in all its shattered

a book that must endure

sentimentalism his theory of the intelligence

Art & Scholasticism Format:Paperback Neither platitudinous social commentary norBy Jacques Maritain Introduction by Brian Barbour Art & Scholasticism is Jacques Maritains classic argument for an objective view of both art and the artist. Like T. S. Eliot, Maritain sees the artist as essentially a maker or craftsman and not the vatic oracle of romanticisms myth. Maritain provides a strong dissenting perspective on the lazy, self flattering artistic assumptions of the past two centuries. Brian Barbours Introduction gives a