Here are six summary statements of ideas in Maritain’s Art and Scholasticism, each followed by related quotations from the book. (Quotations are from the 1974 translation by Joseph W. Evans online here. Also, the earlier translation by J. F. Scanlan is online here.) 1. Real communication between subject (artist/viewer/public) and object (the work of art, or other objects) is possible. The alternative is to fall into the sterility of purely subjective or purely objective modes. In aesthetic experience, we are ‘really’ making contact with the Creation and through it, with the Creator. the splendor or radiance of the form glittering in the … Continue reading Jacques Maritain, Art and Scholasticism