Nietzsche and Art

With Nietzsche's concept of Art before me I feel as if I had left the arts of the present day many thousand leagues behind, and it is almost a hardship to be obliged to return t...

I have now spoken to you of Christian Art, and you have not been taken altogether by surprise; because, in England at least, people are not unacquainted with the fight Art has h...

"And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl o...

"Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of a...

And now, what are the causes of this depression and this madness in Art? For Nietzsche was not alone in recognizing it. Many voices, some wholly trustworthy, have been raised in...

I shall now endeavour to show you when and where Nietzsche's Art doctrine, or part of it, has raised its head in the past, and to touch lightly upon the conditions which led to...

In the last section of this lecture, I told you of three kinds of ugliness. I said there was the ugliness of chaos and disorder, which provokes the hate of the layman, and which...

Sekhet (_Louvre_) Frontispiece The Marriage of Mary, by Raphael (_Brera, Milan_) Saskia, by Rembrandt (_Dresden Royal Picture Gallery_) The Canon of Polycleitus (_Rome_) The Apo...

1. The Spirit of the Age incompatible with Ruler Art 2. A Thrust parried. Police or Detective Art defined 3. The Purpose of Art Still the Same as Ever 4. The Artist's and the La...