G.K. Chesterton on Art and Symbolic Language
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Metyper.2012.v0i8.2761Keywords:
Chesterton, poetry, painting, symbolic language, G. F. WattsAbstract
The present work aims to present G.K. Chesterton’s position on the nature of symbolic language and the specificity of art. The starting point is a group of essays dedicated to this subject, as well as the novel The Napoleon of Notting Hill, and particularly a book written in 1904 about the painter G.F. Watts, which has been recently translated into Spanish. The main questions to be addressed are the following two: a) If symbol and art are not a copy of reality, what is it that defines them? b) In what sense do poetic and pictorial languages perform a symbolic function?
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