The American Imagination: A Critical Survey of the Arts from the Times Literary Supplement

Table of contents

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• Title Page v
• Foreword vii
• Contents xiii
• Taking Stock 1
• Jumbo Fish-Tails 11
• More Than Enough There 19
• The Characteristic Form 30
• The Limits of the Possible 35
• Eternal Verities 41
• The Reflecting Mirror 50
• The Community of the Campus 56
• Call Me Madam 69
• Hollywood and the Face 72
• By the Lights of Times Square 79
• The Re-Birth of the Musical 85
• The Off-Broadway Mixture 91

• Title Page v
• Foreword vii
• Contents xiii
• Taking Stock 1
• Jumbo Fish-Tails 11
• More Than Enough There 19
• The Characteristic Form 30
• The Limits of the Possible 35
• Eternal Verities 41
• The Reflecting Mirror 50
• The Community of the Campus 56
• Call Me Madam 69
• Hollywood and the Face 72
• By the Lights of Times Square 79
• The Re-Birth of the Musical 85
• The Off-Broadway Mixture 91
• The Nature of American Ballet 97
• The Abstract Image 104
• The Music Man 111
• Red and Black 119
• The Realist's Predicament 130
• The New Grand Tour 136
• The Small Screen 144
• Publish or Perish 151
• Religious Enthusiasm 157
• Guys in Advertising 167
• A Vocal Group 173
• A Nation of Art-Collectors 186
• Connoisseurship and Conservation 192
• The Printed Word 197
• Imaginative Historians 203