Maritain's Ontology of the Work of Art

I. Since the appearance in 1902 of Benedetto Croce''s L''estetica come scienza dell'' espressione e linguistica generale, the problem of the ontology of the work of art or aesthetic object - what kind of thing it is and what its mode of being is - has come to occupy a central place in the philosophy of art. Moreover, a particular conception of the identity of art objects is at present a driving fo...