Modern culture and the arts / [edited by] James B. Hall [and] Barry Ulanov

[Section 1 The meeting of the Arts] The decay of lying / Oscar Wilde -- Art for Art's sake / E. M. Forster -- Deceptive analogies: specious and real relationships among the Arts / Suzanne Langer -- The dehumanization of Art / José 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 / José 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 Valéry -- 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 Buñuel -- 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 / André Bazin -- Eugène Atget / Berenice Abbott -- Space-Time and the photographer / László 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 -- Illusion as structure / Richard Lippold.

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