Reflections on Art: A Source Book of Writings by Artists, Critics, and Philosophers

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Introduction ix
• Beauty as Feeling 3
• Art and Feeling 10
• Beauty and Significance 37
• The Paradox of Aesthetic Meaning 62
• On the Problem of Artistic Form 71
• The Aesthetic Problem of Distance 79
• The Nature of Dramatic Illusion 91
• Music and Silence. 103
• Time in the Plastic Arts 122
• Bergsonism and Music 142
• Music and Duration 152
• Notes on the Superposition of Temporal Modes in the Works of Art 161
• The Concept of "Tonal Body" 174
• The Essence of Rhythm 186
• Morphological Poetics 202
• A Boston Criticism of Whitman 229
• Modern Ballet 234
• Art and Craftsmanship 240
• The Eye Is A Part of the Mind 243
• On the Problem of Musical Hearing 262
• The Image in the Rock 298
• Problems of A Song-Writer 301
• The Histrionic Experience 311
• Sketch for A Pychology of the Moving Pictures 317
• Music and Myth in Their Mutual Relation 328
• Modern Architecture: Toward A Redefinition of Style 342
• Index 357

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