Art and Morality: Essays in the Spirit of George Santayana

by Morris Grossman

Book Overview

The guiding theme of these essays by aesthetician, musician, and Santayana scholar Morris Grossman is the importance of preserving the tension between what can be unified and what is disorganized, random, and miscellaneous. Grossman described this as the tension between art and morality: Art arrests a sense of change and yields moments of unguarded enjoyment and peace; but soon, shifting circumstances compel evaluation, decision, and action. According...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823257231
• ISBN13: 9780823257232
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"