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Chapter VII.
The Phenomenological Theory of Art as a
Virtual Symbol: Susanne Langer
 
[introduction.]
 

p Susanne Langer (born December 20, 1895) is well known in the USA and abroad for her writings on philosophy and aesthetics: Philosophy in a New Key (1942), Feeling and Form (1953), Problems ot Art (1957), Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, Vol. I (1967) and others.  [146•1 

In Langer’s opinion the contradictions and confusion in the existing theories of art are mainly attributable to the fear harboured by many theoreticians for the concept “ artistic symbol”. She regards her immediate objective in aesthetics as the interpretation of art in the “new key" of symbolism.

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Notes

[146•1]   In Soviet literature on aesthetics critical discussions of Langer can be found in articles by Victor Martynov, Yelena Nemirovskaya and the present author (13; 14; 25; 26).

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