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Often appears with: religious persecution and toleration · poetry and the poets · imitation of nature · beauty and taste · artist and genius · art and beauty
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He explains Hegelian “art religion”: art uses sensuous immediacy to express spiritual truth, rejects imitation of nature’s externality, and argues art risks polytheism and depends on the artist’s made form.
*sign* of the Idea, is so transfigured by the informing spirit in order to express the Idea, that the figure shows it and it alone:—the shape or form of *Beauty*. § 557. The sensuous externality attaching to the beautiful,—the _form of immediacy* as such,—at the same time *qualifies* what it *embodies_: and the God (of art) has with his spirituality at the same time the stamp upon him of a natural medium or natural …