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Modern Culture and the Arts (2nd Edition)
Modern Culture and the Arts - 2nd Edition Author:James B. Hall (Compiler), Barry Ulanov (Compiler) The meeting of the arts — The way of music — The eye of man — The word arts: the novel — The word arts: poetry — Theatre and dance — Television and motion pictures — The film arts: photography — Architecture and design. Preface — Section 1. The meeting of the arts — The decay of lying / Oscar Wilde — Art for art's sake / E.M. Forster — Deceptive analogi... more »es: Specious and real relationships among the arts / Suzanne Langer
The dehumanization of art / JoseÌ Ortega y Gasset
Design as a creative principle in the arts / Northrop Frye
The aesthetics of the popular arts / Abraham Kaplan
Section 2. The way of music
The performance of music / Igor Stravinsky
How we listen / Aaron Copland
The listener / Roger Sessions
Experimental music: Doctrine / John Cage
What is jazz? / Barry Ulanov
Rock as folk art / Charles Belz
Section 3. The eye of man
Meditations on a hobby horse or the roots of artistic form / E.H. Gombrich
Concerning the spiritual in art / Wassily Kandinsky
The shaping forces of the artist / Paul Klee
Avant-garde and kitsch / Clement Greenberg
Statement: 1935 / Pablo Picasso
A conversation with Hans Hofmann / Irma B. Jaffe
Notes on sculpture / Henry Moore. Section 4. The word arts: the novel
The future of the novel / Henry James
The artist and the world / Joyce Cary
Commitment and reality / Andrew Hook
The end of the novel / Leslie Fiedler
Decline of the novel / JoseÌ Ortega y Gasset
The crisis in the growth of science fiction / Michel Butor
Science versus literature / Roland Barthes
Our bedfellow, the Marquis de Sade / Anthony Burgess
Section 5. The word arts: poetry
Pure poetry: Notes for a lecture / Paul ValeÌry
Three statements / E.E. Cummings
Making, knowing, and judging / W.H. Auden
Notes on the art of poetry / Dylan Thomas
The relations between poetry and painting / Wallace Stevens
On "Identity" / Theodore Roethke
Section 6. Theatre and dance
The problem play
A symposium / George Bernard Shaw
Theatre for learning or theatre for pleasure / Bertolt Brecht
The eternal law of the dramatist / Jean Giraudoux
The theatre of the absurd / Martin Esslin
Theatre takes place all the time, wherever one is / Kenneth Coutts-Smith
Space, time, and dance / Merce Cunningham
Composition in pure movement / Mary Wigman. Section 7. Television and motion pictures
Style and medium in the motion pictures / Erwin Panofsky
The fall and rise of the film director / Andrew Sarris
A statement / Luis BunÌuel
Film has nothing to do with literature / Ingmar Bergman
Acting, being, and the death of the movie aesthetic / Ernest Callenbach
Television: The medium in search of its character / Henry Steele Commager
Section 8. The film arts: photography
The photographer's eye / John Szarkowski
The ontology of the photographic image / AndreÌ Bazin
EugeÌne Atget / Berenice Abbott
Space-time and the photographer / LaÌszloÌ Moholy-Nagy
Edward Steichen
Berenice Abbott
Walker Evans
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Bill Brandt
Jerry Uelsmann
Edward Weston
Section 9. Architecture and design
The scope of total architecture / Walter Gropius
The architect, the artist / Gio Ponti
The designer in the modern world / George Nelson
The nature of urban spaces / I.M. Pei
What is "American" in architecture and design? / John A. Kouwenhoven
Arcology: The city in the image of man / Paolo Soleri