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The Truth about Art 1 - Mystery or Mastery

E.H. Gombrich famously observed that 'there really is no such thing as Art' (with a capital A).
Instead he described the practice of art as 'mastery', which equates to the Quality recovered by Robert M. Pirsig in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974). Quality is also a better word than 'virtue' to render the aretê that preoccupied Socrates in Plato's dialogues.

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Patrick Doorly
Keywords
aesthetics
architecture
arête
aristotle
art
art historian
art history
Collingwood
Doorly
Genius
hobbes
liberal arts
mastery
mystery
oxford
Patrick Doorly
philosopher
philosophy
Pirsig
plato
Plato's cave
pre-verbal
quality
right
sheldonian
skill
Streeter
the Good
The Truth about Art
truth
values
Vasari
virtu
virtue
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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Date Added: 11/04/2014
Duration: 01:07:08

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