References
- There may be some terminological confusion occasioned by varying uses of “intellect” and “intellectual.” In what follows, I (following Read) distinguish between two moments in mental life, between the discursive and the nondiscursive, the reflective and the intuitive. If one takes “intellect” to be the equivalent of “mind,” then one will suppose that both moments are equally “intellectual.” This is the usage I adopt, supposing that “anti-intellectual” means “hostile to intelligent or meaningful activity.” My reason for doing so is that it is only in this sense that the charge is necessarily damaging to an educational theorist. This is also the usage of Collingwood and Langer. If one wished to restrict “intellect” to the discursive level of mind, however, this would not be unusual. Read himself is inconsistent on the point, frequently using “intellectual,” (as in my first quotation), along with “moralistic,” “logical,” “abstract,” “grammatical,” and others, to indicate only the discursive level. Hence, when he expresses a dislike of the “intellectual,” this is not in itself sufficient to show that he is “anti-intellectual.”
- Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings, 3rd edition, London: Lund, Humphries and Co., 1949.
- The reference is to Morris Weitz, “The Role of Theory in Aesthetics,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, XV, September, 1956, 27–35; and W. E. Kennick, “Docs Traditional Aesthetics Rest on a Mistake?” Mind, LXII, 1958, 317-334, reprinted in C. Barrett ed., Collected Papers on Aesthetics, New York: Barnes and Noble, 1966.
- 3rd edition: London: Faber and Faber, 1958. Hereinafter referred to as ETA.
- See Icon and Idea, Harvard University Press, 1955, especially chapter one.
- Rudolph Arnheim's Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1944, is a well-known attempt to apply this kind of psychological finding to the visual arts.
- Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic, trans. Ainslie, revised ed., New York: Noonday Press, 1955, pp. 2–3.