Feeling and Form: A Theory of Art (Susanne Langer)
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Susanne Langer develops a theory of art as the symbolic expression of human feeling.
She distinguishes artistic forms from the discursive symbols used in ordinary language and science.
Painting, music, dance, and literature create different kinds of imagined space, time, and experience.
These forms make patterns of feeling available without reducing them to literal statements.
The book treats artworks as expressive structures rather than records of an artist’s personal emotions.
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