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Arts as a Common Human Possession (1957)

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Dr. Adler begins this subject with a discussion of the generic notion of art as against the restricted notion of art as painting and sculpture. Art, he says, is skill in makingall men are artists and art is indispensable to human life. He includes a comparison of human making with divine making and animal making. Dr. Adler then turns to a distinction between art and naturethe artificial and the natural. This relation of art to nature, he says, has a bearing on the distinction between human making and divine making. He also makes a distinction between art and science and concludes by tracing some of the early art forms. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)

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KGO-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.)

Subjects

public broadcasting, AAPB, Art, Philosophy, Aesthetics, Great Ideas, Plato, Aristotle, Fine Arts, Industrial Arts, Arts and Crafts, Artisans, Liberal Arts, Greek Philosophy, Western Civilization, History of Art, Art of Teaching, Art of Medicine, Culinary Arts, Literature, Music, Plastic Arts, Humanities, Definitions of Art, Ancient Greece, Vocational Arts, Cultural History

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