| Description |
vii, 247 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Introductory note / Peter Abbs -- [On art] -- 2. Limits of permissiveness / Herbert Read -- [On poetry] -- 3. Paper tygers or, the circus animals' desertion in the new pop poetry / Ian Robinson. 4. Ted Hughes's crow and the longing for non-being / David Holbrook -- [On the novel] -- 5. Precarious complacency : a note on the contemporary novel / S. W. Dawson. 6. Suicide : the condition of consciousness and essay on Albert Camus's The outsider and The fall / Masud Khan -- [On language] -- 7. Language of enlightenment / A. C. Capey -- [On music] -- 8. Condition of music / John McCabe. 9. Pop song, the manipulated ritual / Charles Parker -- [On architecture] -- 10. Roads, office blocks, and the new misery / Fred Inglis -- [On philosophy] -- 11. What's the good? / F. R. Lea -- [On the scientific and philosophical background] -- 12. Mechanical world-picture / Peter Abbs. |
| Subject |
Arts, Modern -- 20th century.
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Arts, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Added Author |
Abbs, Peter, 1942-
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Black rainbow. London : Heinemann Educational, 1975 (OCoLC)594055885 |
| ISBN |
0435180258 : £3.80 |
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9780435180256 |
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