123 pp. "While the chapters which follow are useful for individual study, they were expressly designed for use in informal group discussion. The writers raise issues, examine problems in contemporary art which have caused clashes of ideas, and explore conflicting ways of seeing and thinking. ...The four people who wrote these chapters brought to them four different points of view, and many other views are quoted." CONTENTS: Types of Judgment; The Independence of Form; The Search for the Absolute; The Dominance of Emotion; The Creation of New Symbols; Making the Mind Visible: Surrealism; Creativity and Craftsmanship; Sources of Form: The New Environment; The Function of the Painter; Freedom and Responsibility; Biographies of Painters; Schools of Painters; Selected Reading; Acknowledgements.
