July 1, 1941
The Photography of Moholy-Nagy
Since Moholy-Nagy has directed the School of Design in Chicago which he founded after the disbanding of the New Bauhaus there. He had been called from England in 1937 to […]
July 1, 1941
Recent Philosophies of Science
Although the name “philosophy of science” is a recent one, the types of inquiry which it covers are not. Speculation on the meaning and conditions of our knowledge of the […]
July 1, 1941
Death of a Thinker: A Note on the French Novel 1925-40
1. I Am Alone In August, 1925, in the village of Hillion on the North coast of Brittany, a man named Georges Palante shot himself in the head with a […]
January 1, 1941
Primitive Art
In its current application to art the term primitive is as vague and unspecific as the term heathen in its application to religion. A heathen sect is simply one which […]
September 23, 1940
George Santayana: The Philosopher as Poet
Mr. Santayana began his poetic career with three handicaps which he did not entirely overcome: he was a philosopher, he was addicted to Platonism, and he lived in the United […]
September 1, 1940
Basic English and Wordsworth (A Radio Talk)
Naturally no one says that keeping within the Basic words all the time would be a good way of writing poetry. The use of Basic with poetry is, in a […]
July 1, 1940
On Rereading Balzac: The Artist as Scapegoat
Balzac is little read nowadays; he is remembered as one of the more unkempt geniuses of an unkempt century. As a psychologist he is not to be compared with his […]
July 1, 1940
Recent Mexican Painting
Mexican art, till 1910, had been a subsidiary of European. The patrons of the arts, European bred, wanted at home a copy of what they sought in their trips abroad. […]
July 1, 1940
The World of Henry Miller
“Perhaps in reading this,” writes Henry Miller in Tropic of Capricorn, “one has still the impression of chaos but this is written from a live center.” The impression of chaos […]
July 1, 1940
On the Semantics of Poetry
Discussions about poetry incur a double danger. There is the danger of spoiling the poem under discussion by over-analysis, or by inopportune or inappropriate analysis; and there is the danger […]
July 1, 1940
Bert Brecht
Bert Brecht is not as well known as many German authors who have fled from the long arm of Hitlerism, but none is more representative than he is of Germany […]
July 1, 1940
Music Chronicle: Panorama of the Season in New York
The symbolic landscape before my mind’s eye is in motion. It resembles what might have been the earth’s crust during the Algonkian Epoch. The ruddy mountains, interspersed with hillocks and […]