The Symbolic Order: A Contemporary Reader On The Arts DebatePeter Abbs Alongside Living Powers and A is for Aesthetic this book is intended to establish a conceptual frame for the Arts in Education series. The first and primary aim of this symposium is to put teachers of all the arts in touch with some of the most recent and the best writing on the nature of art. |
Contents
PART I The Renewal of Aesthetics | 1 |
PART II Art as the Pursuit of Truth | 35 |
PART III The Primacy of Feeling | 49 |
Part IV The Demise of Modernism | 83 |
PART V Art and Tradition | 140 |
PART VI The Recognition of Myth | 155 |
PART VII Art and the Creative Process | 177 |
Part VIII The Teaching of the Arts | 207 |
PART IX Art and the Community | 246 |
PART X Art as Affirmation | 263 |
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