Some Sources of Romanticism: 5 – Unbridled Romanticism
Isaiah Berlin
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The Art of the Self Conscious
Life in a work of art is the analogis some kind of common quality which it has with what we admire in nature. We see in them, not merely the form which the artist perhaps consciously imposed, but also something of which the artist may not be wholly aware. Any work of art which is fully self conscious is a kind of photograph for him. That is the fundamental romantic, anti enlightenment doctrine of art. And this, of course, has had a very considerable influence upon all critics who regard the unconscious as having some part.
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