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Aesthetic Jurisprudence
It seems that the philosophy of art criticism has been a topic of discussion for a while. In his 1921 essay "Aesthetic Jurisprudence" George Jean Nathan wrote some insightful musings on art and criticism:
"Yet criticism is itself an art. It might, indeed, be defined as an art within an art, since every work of art is the struggle between the heart that is the artist himself and his mind that is the critic."
"The little mind and its little criticism are the flattering foes of sound art. Such art demands for its training and triumph the countless preliminary body blows of muscular criticism guided by a muscular mind. Art and the artist cannot be developed by mere back-slapping. If art, according to Beule, is the intervention of the human mind in the elements furnished by experience, criticism is the intervention of the human mind in the elements furnished by aesthetic passion. Art and the artist are ever youthful lovers; criticism is their chaperon."
Simon
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