Art & Scholasticism Format:Paperback Bernanos exchanges austerity for sublimity

Bernanos exchanges austerity for sublimity and ratiocination for mysticism

and profound look into the depths of the interior life

Paul Claudel (1868–1955) was a French poet

Boniface Society

Art & Scholasticism Format:Paperback Bernanos exchanges austerity for sublimityBy 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