Aesthetic appreciation

The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Arts secondary

Hegel argues that older art-theory based on reflection has become outdated, while art history’s scholarship remains valuable by combining aesthetic appreciation with historical knowledge to illuminate individual works.

thinking mind, attained at this time, on its side, a deeper self-knowledge in philosophy, and was thereby directly impelled to understand the essence of art, too, in a profounder fashion. Thus, then, even judging by the phases of this more general evolution of ideas, the theoretical mode of reflection upon art which we were considering has become antiquated alike in its principles and in its particulars. Only the *s…