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The Problem of Artistic Production

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

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The main problem which I wish to discuss in this paper may be set out in the form of a very simple question. It is this: What makes an artist—whether he be painter, sculptor, musician, poet, or anything else—desire to produce a work of art and to go on working until he has done so?

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1930

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page 534 note 1 Including persons and events.

page 535 note 1 Exactly what these values are, and how they become expressed, is a long story, into which I cannot enter here. I hope to return to the subject shortly in a book.

page 537 note 1 No doubt we are all tired of the illustration. Yet sunsets do, in fact, appear to have stimulated real artists—sometimes!

page 538 note 1 Three Lectures on Æsthetic, p. 58 sq.

page 539 note 1 Limited popular opinion, of course.

page 539 note 2 Cf. also Alexander, , Art and the Material, pp. 10, 16, and 17Google Scholar

page 539 note 3 Ibid., p. 67 sq.

page 539 note 4 Ibid., p. 69.

page 539 note 5 Footnote, supra.

page 540 note 1 Æsthetic, Ainslie's translation, p. 10.

page 540 note 2 Translated by Ainslie under the title of The Essence of Æsthetic.

page 540 note 3 Op. cit., p. 40.

page 540 note 4 Ibid., p. 40.

page 540 note 5 Ibid., p. 43.

page 540 note 6 Ibid., p. 44.

page 540 note 7 Ibid., p. 49.

page 540 note 8 Ibid., p. 49.

page 540 note 9 Æsthetic, p. 51.

page 540 note 10 Ibid., p. 96.

page 541 note 1 Essence of Æsthetic, p. 45.

page 541 note 2 Rainer, A. C. A., “The Field of Æsthetics,” Mind, vol. xxxviii, No. 150, p. 165.Google Scholar

page 542 note 1 For the artist may stop to contemplate his work as far as it has gone.

page 543 note 1 Croce, , Æsthetic, pp. 8, 9.Google Scholar

page 543 note 2 See Alexander, , Art and the Material, p. 12 and passim.Google Scholar