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... literal assertions are the simple expressive elements of language . But as soon as human conception finds an adequate symbol , it grows like Jack's beanstalk , and outgrows the highest reaches of what seemed such an adequate form of ...
... literal assertions are the simple expressive elements of language . But as soon as human conception finds an adequate symbol , it grows like Jack's beanstalk , and outgrows the highest reaches of what seemed such an adequate form of ...
Page 93
... literal discourse makes are use- less for this particular subject - matter , they obscure and falsify rather than communicate our ideas of vitality and sentience . Yet there is no understanding without symbolization , and no ...
... literal discourse makes are use- less for this particular subject - matter , they obscure and falsify rather than communicate our ideas of vitality and sentience . Yet there is no understanding without symbolization , and no ...
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... literal state- ment . The artistic form is a perceptual unity of some- thing seen , heard , or imagined — that is , the configuration , or Gestalt , of an experience . One may say that to call such an immediately perceived Gestalt ...
... literal state- ment . The artistic form is a perceptual unity of some- thing seen , heard , or imagined — that is , the configuration , or Gestalt , of an experience . One may say that to call such an immediately perceived Gestalt ...
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abstraction actual appearance Aristotle art symbol articulation artistic perception beauty Cecil Day Lewis Clive Bell color complex composition concept connotation convey creation Curt Sachs dance denotation devices discursive distinct dynamic form dynamic image effect elements emotion Ernest Nagel experience expressive form fact formulative function human feeling idea illusion imagination imitation import insight intuition intuitive knowledge Irwin Edman language lines literal living form logical form material meaning ment metaphor motion names nature normal object organic painting pattern perceive philosophical physical pictorial space picture plastic art poem poet poetic poetry present primary apparition primitive principles of art pure reality reason relations rhythmic rhythms Roger Fry sculpture seems semanticists semantics sense sensuous sentience shape significant form simply song sound statement structure subjective SUSANNE LANGER T. S. Eliot theory things thought tion tonal tones unity usually virtual space visual vital whole words