Art & Scholasticism Format:Paperback and profound look into the

and profound look into the depths of the interior life

Winner of the Grand prix de poésie de l’Académie française in 1962

rather than simply something a person does

Paul Claudel (1868–1955) was a French poet

Neither platitudinous social commentary nor assertions of economic utopianism

Art & Scholasticism Format:Paperback and profound look into theBy Jacques Maritain Introduction by Brian Barbour Art & Scholasticism is Jacques Maritains classic argument for an objective view of both art and the artist. Like T. S. Eliot, Maritain sees the artist as essentially a maker or craftsman and not the vatic oracle of romanticisms myth. Maritain provides a strong dissenting perspective on the lazy, self flattering artistic assumptions of the past two centuries. Brian Barbours Introduction gives a