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This chapter is an overview of three broad questions, each of which pertains to American musical authors their boundary-crossing, multidisciplinary works. What did music represent to the American public and the literary establishment in the early twentieth century? What role does the sense of hearing play in the reading act? And what relative value does popular culture enjoy in comparison to the "high" arts?It is one of the most famous and in uential ideas in the history of aesthetic theory: "All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music." This pronouncement appears in "The School of Giorgione," an 1877 essay by the Oxford don Walter Pater that is nominally about painting, but is more broadly concerned with the interrelations and common aims of all the arts. Laying out the principles of true aesthetic appreciation, Pater begins by conceding that each art has "its own peculiar and untranslatable sensuous charm" (122). He also notes, however, that the arts "are able, not indeed to supply the place of each other, but reciprocally to lend each other new forces" (124). A sculpture can possess elements of tragic drama, a sonnet can call a picture to mind, and every artistic w

Author

T. Austin Graham

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published

2013

Language

EN