O poměru výtvarných umění k přírodě

Schelling had been systematically studying the philosophy of art since 1800. His lecture The Relation of the Fine Arts to Nature (1807) represents his last work devoted explicitly to this topic. It is a public lecture for a wider educated audience, in which he does not formulate purely philosophical arguments, but refers to contemporary discussions on the nature of beauty (Winckelmann, Hamann, Goethe, Mengs, etc.). However, there remains an attempt to show in what sense nature is alive and productive, in what sense it is a representation of the world of ideas, and how to understand the task of art to imitate nature, or what the specifics of the representation of ideas in art consist in.

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