Susanne K. Langer

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The lectures here collected between two covers do not form a consecutive discourse; with exception of the three Matchette Lectures, grouped under the general title of "Pivotal Concepts in the Philosophy of Art," these were all separate addresses (to which is added one published essay, "Abstraction in Science and Abstraction in Art"). Each lecture was given to a different audience. For this reason, the basic ideas-the "pivotal concepts" on which my whole art theory turns had to be expounded, or at least sketched, on almost every occasion. In a book such reiteration would, of course, be intolerable; hence the deletions and backward references in the text. Although the various audiences dancers, music students, college students, learned societies-usually represented some special interest or attitude to be met by the evening's talk, yet the lectures when put together prove to have a common theme, dictated by those central concepts that direct every special inquiry. Art has many problems, and every problem has many facets. But the basic issues-what is created, what is expressed, what is experienced-underlie them all, and all special solutions are developments of the crucial answers. The single lectures, therefore, may seem to be on as many single subjects, but they are really somewhat arbitrary small spotlights turned on the same great topic, the nature of Art. "The Dynamic Image" was published in Dance Observer (Vol. XXIII, No. 6), July, 1956.