Finality without end: with these words, Immanuel Kant, in his Critique of Judgment, expressed a relation between the aesthetic emotion, the judgment of taste felt before beauty in nature, which, if it does have an end or a raison d’être, is not really comprehensible to us, and is thus disinterested, and the sometimes analogous feeling experienced before beauty in a work of art.

The Great Lobi Statuary / La grande statuaire Lobi