When seeing was believing.(The Reformation of the Image)(Book Review)

From: The Nation | Date: March 7, 2005| Author: Danto, Arthur Coleman | Copyright information

The Reformation of the Image. By Joseph Leo Koerner. Chicago. 464 pp. $48.

In Hegel's formidable system of aesthetics, fine art fulfills its highest calling when "it has placed itself in the same sphere as religion and philosophy." Philosophy, religion and fine art are modes of what Hegel called Absolute Spirit, by which he meant that each in its different way is capable of expressing "the deepest interests of mankind, and the most comprehensive truths of the spirit." D...

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