The Visual Arts Today Author:Gyorgy Kepes Contents — GYORGY KEPES Introduction 3 — MARGARET MEAD Work, Leisure, and Creativity 13 — SIGFRIED GIEDION The Roots of Symbolic Expression 24 — FELIX DEUTSCH Body, Mind, and Art 34 — LE CORBUSIER Architecture and the Arts 46 — JOHN E. BURCHARD Alienated Affections in the Arts 52 — Views on Art and Architecture: A Conversation 62 — EDUARD F. SEKL... more »ER The City and the Arts 74
STATEMENTS AND DOCUMENTS Vincent van Gogh, Juan Gris, Paul Klee, Jos? Ortega y Gasset, Fernand L?ger, Piet Mondrian, Joan Mir?, Pierre Soulages, Jean Dubuffet Albert Camus, Wassily Kandinsky, Jean Arp, Naum Gabo, Josef Albers, Jean H?lion, Saul Steinberg, Stuart Davis, Marcel Duchamp, Oskar Kokoschka Theodore Roszak, Ben Shahn 79
PAUL & ANN RAND Advertisement: Ad Vivum or Ad Hominem? 127
EDWARD STEICHEN On Photography 136
BORIS KAUFMAN Film Making as an Art 138
ROBERT GARDNER A Human Document 144
GEORGE AMBERG The Ambivalence of Realism 150
MAYA DEREN Cinematography: The Creative Use of Reality 154
THE NEW LANDSCAPE 173
PAUL WEISS Organic Form: Scientific and Aesthetic Aspects 181
ANDREAS SPEISER Symmetry in Science and Art 195
RUDOLF WITTKOWER The Changing Concept of Proportion 203
JAMES J. GIBSON Pictures, Perspective, and Perception 220
E. H. GOMBRICH On Physiognomic Perception 232
SUZANNE K. LANGER On Artistic Sensibility 246
W. J. H. B. SANDBERG Picasso's "Guernica" 249
JAMES S. ACKERMAN Art History and the Problems of Criticism 257