In
Search of the Sense and the Senses:
Aesthetic Education in Germany and the United States
by Alexandra Kertz-Welzel
The dream that art is able
to humanize human beings is very old. One person fascinated by this idea
claimed:
The creative artist educates and perfects through his work
the nation's capacity for appreciation, just as conversely the general
feeling for art thus developed and sustained creates the fruitful soil
which is the condition for the birth, the growth, and the activity of
creative forces.
The author asserted that art has educational power and is able to improve
appreciation as well as activate creative energy. Art is a way to transform
the individual through its aesthetic power.
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