Susanne K. Langer Feeling And Form

S.K. Saxena Illustrator: NA: Hindustani Sangeet and A Philosopher of Art: Music, Rhythm, and Kathak Dance vis-a-vis Aesthetics of Susanne K. Langer (Series: New Vistas in Indian Performing Arts 2) D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd. 2001 ISBN: 9788124601808

New Hardcover 15 x 23 cm. The book is decidedly the very first of its kind. It seeks to weigh some basic facts and concepts of Hindustani sangeet (music, rhythm, and Kathak dance) against the art theories of Susanne K. Langer, an eminent aesthetician of the recent past; but nowhere without meticulous attention to the text of her writings. The expression theory of art has for long dominated the history of aesthetics. At the hands of Langer, however, the theory takes a new turn. She conceives of art not as a direct self-expression of the artist's immediate affective state, but as a symbolic expression of his knowledge of what she terms variously as felt life, sentience, or forms of feeling. Drawing freely upon examples from the region of Hindustani sangeet, the present book accepts Langer's protest against the popular view of artistic expression, but contends that there is a good deal in our music and dance which has nothing to do with feeling, and is admired simply because of its sweetness, clarity, shapeliness, and accordance with grammatical norms. In the chapter on music, while discussing Langer's emphasis on 'commanding form' in a total performance, the author proposes a quite new definition of raga which seeks to integrate the various points in its traditional characterizations. The third chapter too, which deals with Langer's view of rhythm, is not merely explanatory, but ventures to propose a fresh and fairly defensible definition of rhythm. The closing chapter, devoted to dance, not only essays to meet some key objections to Langer's writing on this art, but clarifies some atypical language that she uses in this context: apparition of vital powers; the dynamic image; virtual realities; and the created, 'superhuman' dance-personality. But perhaps the two most striking features of the book are: first, a lucid exposition of the essentials of Langer's aesthetics in the opening chapter; and, second, abounding illustrative references to Hindustani sangeet. Book Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. Langer's Theory of Art : Some Essentials Art as Expression Langer on Expression: Some Questions Creation of Art Some Basic Distinctions Artistic Expression as Logical Art as Symbolic 'Livingness' and Organic Character of Art Organic Form and Rhythms: Primary, Secondary An Important Distinction Art-Reality Difference (Contd.) How Art can (yet) Symbolize LIfe Sources of 'Livingness' in Art Felt Life and Art: A Parallel Organic Unity and a Poem 'Transformation' of Life in Art The Poem-Again 'Life' or Import of a Work of Art The 'Expressed' in Art: Interpreting Langer's View Form in Art Form, Artistic Import, and Logical Intuition Some Critical Remarks Art and the 'Forms' of Feeling Langer on Poetry: A Criticism Residual Disagreements 2. Of Music: Langer and an Indian Genre Raga in Indian Music Composition in Music Musical Elements and Acts in Life Objectivity of Composition (or Bandish) 'Commanding Form' -- Composition or Raga? Is Full-Blown Alapa a 'Form'? Langer on Music and Feeling The Great Office of Music The Crux of Langer's View The Value of Music Tonal Structures and 'Forms of Feeling' Is Music Essentially Non-Representational ? Music, Pure Duration, and 'Lived' Time Is the Import of Music Symbolic ? Intuitive Seizure of Music's Import But, then, how is Music's 'Sensuous' Form Symbolic ? An Alternative: The Beautiful in Music 'Illusions' in Music and its 'Great Office' Music's Substantial Qualities The Unity of Musical Form -- Illustrated Identical Gestalts with Unlike Expressiveness How is a Work 'Individual'? Artistic Form as Vital, Organic Art-Elements and Life-Ac Printed Pages: 396. First edition

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Langer, Susanne K. Feeling and form: a theory of art developed from "Philosophy in a new key" London Routledge & Kegan Paul 1963 ; fester Einband / hard cover; 1. Ed.

8vo, red cloth. Pp XVI, 431. The semantic theory of symbolism which Professor Langer developed in "Philosophy in a new key" is used in this book as the basis for a critique of art. Third Impression Hard Cover; Third Impression

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Langer, Susanne K. FEELING AND FORM A Theory of Art Developed from Philosophy in a New Key, 1953 New York Charles Scribner's Sons ; 1. Ed.

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Langer, Susanne K.: Feeling and Form. A Theory of Art. Developed From Philosophy in a New Key. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977. ISBN: 0023675004
Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - In Philosophy in a New Key, Susanne Langer developed a theory of symbolism, there applied to music, which she felt could be developed to embrace all the arts. In Feeling and Form she did just that. It offers the reader nothing less than a systematic, comprehensive theory of art, applied in turn to painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, music, the dance, drama, and the film. Born in New York City, Mrs. Langer studied for her A.B., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Radcliffe. She remained there as Tutor in Philosophy for fifteen years, later teaching at Columbia University, among other places, and at the Connecticut College for Women, where she is now Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Research Scholar. She established her reputation with an early book, An Introduction to Symbolic Logic, becoming world-famous after the publication of Philosophy in a New Key and Feeling and Form. (Verlagstext). ISBN 0023675004 - , ISBN-13: 9780023675003

431 S. Originalbroschur.

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