Art matters
In the face of a great work of art, we so often stand mute, struck dumb. Countering contemporary assumptions that art is valued only according to taste or ideology, Peter De Bolla gives a voice - and vocabulary - to the wonder art can inspire
Print Book, English, 2003, ©2001
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Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2003, ©2001
157 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
9780674011106, 0674011104
1004441157
1. Introduction: Aesthetic Experience 2. Serenity: Barnett Newman's Vir Heroicus Sublimis 3. Clarity: Glenn Gould's Goldberg (1981) 4. Equanimity: Wordsworth's We Are Seven 5. Fragility: The Architecture of Wonder