Art, The Image of the West (Art Ebook) pdf torrent

Pantheon | 1952 | Eng | Pdf | 245 pag | 47.6 MB

ART is the first evidence, the archidiom of man's being. Indispensable as a medium of expression even in primitive times, it has remained so down the ages, never supplanted by either the spoken or the written word. Voicing the otherwise unvoiceable, art both precedes and exceeds conscious awareness, telling more than man himself knows. A word indicates, stands for something; a work of art is what it signifies.
Poetry, with its special rhythm, its sound relations, word groupings and associations, has a reaching power beyond that of ordinary speech. However, inasmuch as all verbal expression differs with diflFerent peoples, one and the same word often changing its meaning with the passage of time, language as a whole is no guarantee of true communication