Painting and Reality Guardini before we know why it

before we know why it applies

the eternal youth of its doctrinal tradition

The first of Ronald Knox’s three “Slow Motion” collections

Hughes dispenses with the chronological method

more abiding meaning and order for his hopes and loves

Painting and Reality Guardini before we know why itBy tienne Gilson Painting and Reality The midpoint of the twentieth century, as with the present day, saw no shortage of scholarship on the subject of art. In Painting and Reality, delivered in 1955 for the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, tienne Gilson makes what is in many ways a unique contribution to that vast body of literature. Addressing the problem of what a philosopher can learn from painting, Gilson makes the center of his perspective