Art & Scholasticism Format:Paperback rather than simply something a

rather than simply something a person does

Paul Claudel (1868–1955) was a French poet

Winner of the Grand prix de poésie de l’Académie française in 1962

One may easily say of C

and profound look into the depths of the interior life

Art & Scholasticism Format:Paperback rather than simply something aBy Jacques Maritain Introduction by Brian Barbour Art & Scholasticism is Jacques Maritains classic argument for an objective view of both art and the artist. Like T. S. Eliot, Maritain sees the artist as essentially a maker or craftsman and not the vatic oracle of romanticisms myth. Maritain provides a strong dissenting perspective on the lazy, self flattering artistic assumptions of the past two centuries. Brian Barbours Introduction gives a