MPC 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Robert Musil, Susanne Langer, Leo Tolstoy
14 Feb 2017
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Forms of expression are squeezed (cid:894)pressed(cid:895) out (cid:894)like a grapefruit(cid:895); speal o(cid:374)e"s (cid:373)i(cid:374)d. You can express joy, and other emotions. What feelings result from that squeezing out. History: people used to wear masks to convey their emotion in theatre. Artists: one definition is that they are people who use their experiences and skill to embody their emotions in a work of art with a view of stimulating the same emotion in its audience. Big e expression: refers to an artistic movement from some time. North america in the late 50s in the movement. An expression can be being an expression of. Implies that there is someone whose expression it is. Does not imply any professor, either artists or audience. Art can be expressive of an emotion without being an expression of the emotion. Betraying an emotion v. expressing and emotion. What is art - his book - tranmission, infecting.
