Reflections on art, a source book of writings by artists, critics, and philosophers; edited by Susanne K. Langer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Langer, Susanne K. (Susanne Katherina Knauth), 1895-1985, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Philosophy.

Art.

Aesthetics.

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Physical Description:

xviii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1968 (reprint), 1958

Contents:

Beauty as feeling / Virgil C. Aldrich

Art and feeling / Otto Baensch

Beauty and significance / Louis Arnaud Reid

The paradox of aesthetic meaning / Lucius Garvin

On the problem of artistic form / Paul Stern

The aesthetic problem of distance / Georg Mehlis

The nature of dramatic illusion / Charles Morgan

Music and silence / Gisèle Brelet

Time in the plastic arts / Étienne Souriau

Bergsonism and music / Gabriel Marcel

Music and duration / Basil de Selincourt

Notes on the superposition of temporal modes in works of art / Micheline Sauvage

The concept of "tonal body" / Hans Heinz Dräger

The essence of rhythm / Raymond Bayer

Morphological poetics / Günther Müller

A Boston criticism of Whitman / John Burroughs

Modern ballet / Émile Vuillermoz

Art and craftsmanship / Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

The eye is a part of the mind / Leo Steinberg

On the problem of musical hearing / Helmut Reinhold

The image in the rock / John B. Flannagan

Problems of a song-writer / Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

The histrionic experience / Peter Richard Rohden

Sketch for a psychology of the moving pictures / André Malraux

Music and myth in their mutual relation / Max Kraussold

Modern architecture: toward a redefinition of style / Vincent J. Scully, Jr.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Langer, Susanne K. (Susanne Katherina Knauth), 1895-1985. Reflections on art.

OCLC:

1592887814