... I did get to visit various sites in Seattle that are well known for their public art. My drive up N. 36th street took us to the Freemont Bridge (once called the Aurora Bridge). There to the left, under the bridge stood the biggest, scariest sculpture named the Freemont Troll. He was sculpted by four Seattle area artists, Steve Badanes, Will Martin, Donna Walter and Ross Whitehead in 1990 for ... the Fremont Arts Council. This cement sculpture stands 18-ft. tall, intimidating at first. After taking a closer look at this left side parted haired troll ... I did not get to ride it to the t...

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... of nature, but a metaphysical complement that will enable the transcendence of nature itself. Art is the fundamental metaphysical activity of Man; art is the highest form of human activity. Nietzsche's view of art is, at the same time, the most sublime and metaphysical. Art may well be said to be the bridge between Man and the superhuman, the artist, the bridge to perfection and eternity. All nihilism in Nietzsche's philosophical system is ... , and why he wrote Parsifal. After a brief discussion of Wagner, Nietzsche concludes that we can learn little about the meaning of ascetic ideals ...

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... agency. Hegel then offered some more details to justify Kant's view. He told that it's impossible to discuss aesthetics without talking about a theory of art. Aesthetic judgment is a bridge between our sensuous and the intellectual that could be the means of access to the world of ideas. In the nineteenth century, the aesthetics expressed as art. The traditional aesthetics was hard to trace by this time. People ... direct experience. Because Plato talks about Form of Beauty, that is just an illusion from long time ago, this theory doesn't work anymore for the twentieth century. The theo...

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