The Twilight of Romanticism
A Work of Art Exists on Two Levels. On the one hand it embodies a deeply felt experience, a moment of rapturous awareness projected by a creative temperament. On the other, it embodies a way of shaping sensuous material — sounds, colors, blocks of marble, words — into artistic forms, according to techniques and procedures that derive from the nature of that material. In other words, a work of art possesses an expressive content and a formal content. …
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