Lectures on Aesthetics

“Hegel's lectures on the philosophy of art — also known in English as 'The Philosophy of Fine Art' — argue that beauty is the sensuous shining of the idea, trace art through its symbolic, classical and romantic forms, from the pyramids to Greek sculpture to Christian painting and music, survey architecture, sculpture, painting, music and poetry, and end with the claim that art, in its highest vocation, is for us a thing of the past.”