art, considered in its highest vocation, is and remains for us a thing of the past. thereby it has lost for us genuine truth and life, and has rather been transferred into our ideas instead of maintaining its earlier necessity in reality and occupying its higher place. what is now aroused in us by works of art is not just immediate enjoyment, but our judgement also, since we subject to our intellectual consideration (i) the content of art and (ii) the work of art's means of presentation, and the appropriateness or inappropriateness of both to one another. the philosophy of art is therefore a greater need in our days than it was in days when art by itself yielded full satisfaction. art invites us to intelectual considerationm and that not for the purpose of creating art again, but for knowing philosophically what art is. hegel, aesthetics (1828)