''Art and Scholasticism'' (french: Art et scolastique) is a 1920 book by the French philosopher Jacques Maritain. It is considered his major contribution to

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. According to Gary Furnell, the work "was a key text that guided the work of writers such as

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, Sally and

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, Francois Mauriac, Thomas Merton,

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, Flannery O’Connor and T.S. Eliot." Maritain's Thomist-Aristotelian distinction between Art and Prudence was highly influential on the sculptor

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, and were developed further in the seminal essay on theological aesthetics, entitled 'Art and Sacrament', by poet and painter David Jones.

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;Books * ;Journals * 1920 non-fiction books Aesthetics books Books by Jacques Maritain French non-fiction books {{aesthetics-book-stub