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Système des beaux-arts
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  • Edmund Burke
    aesthetics
    / Expressionism

    …French philosopher Alain in his Système des beaux-arts (1920, revised 1926; “System of the Fine Arts”), a work that is distinguished by its detailed attention to dress, fashion, manners, and the useful arts, and by its idea of the artist as artisan d’abord. Along with John Dewey’s Art As Experience…

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    …French philosopher Alain in his Système des beaux-arts (1920, revised 1926; “System of the Fine Arts”), a work that is distinguished by its detailed attention to dress, fashion, manners, and the useful arts, and by its idea of the artist as artisan d’abord. Along with John Dewey’s Art As Experience…

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