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- Title
On the 'Immediacy' of Art.
- Authors
Romanos, George D.
- Abstract
ART COMMONLY IS VIEWED as a medium of communication and understanding; and thus, comparisons with what is ordinarily called "language" are inevitable. A felt distinctive feature of aesthetic experience, much acclaimed, is its so-called directness or immediacy. The peculiar nature of the aesthetic wherein this immediacy is imagined to derive or consist, however, is very unobvious; and consequently, formulations of the alleged difference between art and language in this regard are frequently left at only a metaphorical level. <BR> In the present essay I shall briefly examine the aesthetic views of three philosophers -- Henri Bergson, D. W. Prall, and John Dewey -- which exhibit fundamentally different points of departure and emphasis in attempting to establish the common central position that the kind of understanding or communication achieved through art is somehow intrinsically more direct and immediate than that made possible by the use of language. By assuming at the start only an intuitive grasp of what is meant by "art" and "language" I will try, through consideration of the views here mentioned, to progressively clarify the issues and isolate some of the problems involved in so contrasting art and language. In accomplishing this objective, recourse will repeatedly be made to the critical comments and suggestions of Nelson Goodman, as contained chiefly in his essay, "The Way the World Is," [1] and his book, Languages of Art.[2].
- Subjects
ART; LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism, 1977, Vol 36, Issue 1, p73
- ISSN
0021-8529
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/430751