The Renaissance : Studies in Art and Poetry (Dover Books on Art, Art History)

One of the most talked about books of the 19th century, The Renaissance combines scholarship and philosophy in an innovative work of cultural criticism. Published in 1837, Walter Pater’s graceful essays discuss the achievements of

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innashpitzberg22 ноября 2012 г.
Уолтер Патер, еще один замечательный представитель богатейшей культуры Викторианской Англии, знаменит, прежде всего, этой свой работой об эпохе Возрождения, ставшей классической.
Эстетические идеи, высказанные Патером в этой книге, оказали огромное влияние как на его современников, так и на последующие поколения писателей и деятелей искусства. Так, его знаменитое и очень нестандартное описание "Мадонны" Ботичелли явно нашло свое отражение у Пинчона в прекрасном романе "V".
Патер видит роль эстетического критика в первую очередь в том, чтобы видеть объект и уметь понимать и оценивать свои впечатления:

To see the object as in itself it really is," has been justly said to be the aim of all true criticism whatever; and in æsthetic criticism the first step towards seeing one's object as it really is, is to know one's own impression as it really is, to discriminate it, to realise it distinctly.
Рассуждения Патера в этой книге строятся на мощной философской основе и великолепном знании истории искусства. Но от этого работа не становится скучной или занудной, наоборот, блестящий стиль Патера зажигает и вдохновляет, этой книгой зачитываешься и не можешь оторваться.
Идея искусства ради искусства - это тоже отсюда, вот знаменитый отрывок из эпилога "Возрождения" Патера:

Great passions may give us this quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which come naturally to many of us. Only be sure it is passion -- that it does yield you this fruit of a quickened, multiplied consciousness. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

Гореть, жить горя. Но я не могу сказать лучше Патера, вот знаменитая фраза, вдохновившая многих:

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses? How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy?
To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
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innashpitzberg21 ноября 2012 г.
Philosophiren, says Novalis, ist dephlegmatisiren vivificiren. The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation. Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive to us, -- for that moment only. Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses? How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy?
To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
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innashpitzberg21 ноября 2012 г.
The history of art has suffered as much as any history by trenchant and absolute divisions. Pagan and Christian art are sometimes harshly opposed, and the Renaissance is represented as a fashion which set in at a definite period. That is the superficial view: the deeper view is that which preserves the identity of European culture. The two are really continuous; and there is a sense in which it may be said that the Renaissance was an uninterrupted effort of the middle age, that it was ever taking place. When the actual relics of the antique were restored to the world, in the view of the Christian ascetic it was as if an ancient plague-pit had been opened. All the world took the contagion of the life of nature and of the senses. And now it was seen that the medieval spirit too had done something for the new fortunes of the antique. By hastening the decline of art, by withdrawing interest from it and yet keeping unbroken the thread of its traditions, it had suffered the human mind to repose itself, that when day came it might awake, with eyes refreshed, to those ancient, ideal forms.
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innashpitzberg21 ноября 2012 г.
Out of Greek religion, under happy conditions, arises Greek art, to minister to human culture. It was the privilege of Greek religion to be able to transform itself into an artistic ideal.
For the thoughts of the Greeks about themselves, and their relation to the world generally, were ever in the happiest readiness to be transformed into objects for the senses.
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