Fopddes
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Apr 11, 2019
9:12 PM
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The question van der Leeuw posed was this: can works of art be expressive of the holy? In asking this question, he was the inheritor of the 19th century Romantic tradition of writers emphasizing the intrinsically expressive qualities of art: some works of art are expressive of joy, some, of sorrow, etc. Van der Leeuw asked, can works of art similarly be expressive of the holy – intrinsically expressive, expressive by virtue of their style, not by virtue of what they represent?
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