"The Social History of Art, 1953 The Social History of Art, Arnold Hauser (1892-1978) , 1951 Hungarian-Germanart historianand sociologist who was perhaps the leadingMarxistin the field. assimilated Jewish origin. Now within the fantasy-world of Hegel's metaphysical system there was at least a reason "
"I am aware of the extreme crudity of thls model and would not dream of saddling anyone with the theory in this form. It is clear for instance, that our Western music has other dimensions than those entered into the diagram, the most important being that between tension and resolution based on the di"
"The entirely anticipated obviously brings no fresh information; it is the unexpected that is news. This way of looking at signals in terms of their expectedness or unexpectedness has proved fruitful in the analysis of style in music and language. But it may also have its share in the present cult of"
"One of the weakest points in the theory of natural resonance is this tendency to equate any failure to respond with a failure to understand. 天然共鸣理论的一个致命弱点 就是将未能回应等同于未能理解 的倾向。 Our ability to interpret the emotional imapct of one or the other depends on our understanding that this is the most dissonan"
"It suggests that the dimensions of louder, of faster and of higher may tend to be experienced as parallel. There are memorable passages in music, such as the climix of Bethoven's Leonora No. 3 in which these dimensions are used to reinforce each other and volume, speed and pitch rise to tremendous t"
"Perhaps great anger and some sadness would lead to two red, and one blue stamp. Only a fit of reckless fury, however, would break through the rules altogether and affix three red stamps at the gratuitous expense of 1-1/2-d. But in such a fit of extreme expressionist abandon, our correspondent would "