Title & Author:

On the future of art / essays by Arnold J. Toynbee [and others] ; introduction by Edward F. Fry ; sponsored by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Publication:

New York : Viking Press, 1970.

Description:

ix, 134 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm

Series:

Viking compass books ; C308

Notes:
"Sponsored by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum."
Includes bibliographical references.
Art: communicative or esoteric? / Arnold J. Toynbee -- Architecture: silence and light / Louis I. Kahn -- Art and the structuralist perspective / Annette Michelson -- Creating the creative artist / B.F. Skinner -- Phenomenal art: form, idea, and technique / James Seawright -- The aesthetics of intelligent systems / J.W. Burnham -- Art as a form of reality / Herbert Marcuse.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"In today's world, the question of what the future will bring--if, indeed, we are to have a future at all--has become a matter of critical concern. Through developments in science and technology, we are rapidly approaching the point where we will be able to comprehend and even control the present in order to predict the future more accurately than ever before. But the influence of the creative individual is one aspect of the future that always eludes such predictions. In this collection of essays, based on a series of lectures given at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, seven prominent intellectuals and artists speculate on the future of art in light of their own ideas about what the world will be like. Although historian Arnold Toynbee, anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss (perceptively interpreted by critic Annette Michelson), psychologist B. F. Skinner, and philosopher Herbert Marcuse envision the future in very different ways, each chooses to consider the arts in terms of the artist's role in society. The artists themselves (architect Louis Kahn, sculptor James Seawright, artist-author J. W. Burnham) characteristically look ahead to the artistic possibilities offered by technological advances rather than to their relationship with a future public. Revised by the authors for book publication, edited and introduced by Edward Fry, Associate curator of the Guggenheim Museum, these essays make up a provocative symposium which sheds a great deal of light on present-day thinking as it anticipates the world of tomorrow." -- Provided by publisher

Resources:
E-book - Full text from Guggenheim Archives

ISBN:

0670525006
9780670525003
0670003085
9780670003082

Subject:

Art.
Aufsatzsammlung
Kunst

Form/genre:

Art.
Aufsatzsammlung.
works of art.
Œuvres d'art.

Added entries:

Toynbee, Arnold, 1889-1975, contributor.
Fry, Edward F., writer of introduction.
Toynbee, Arnold Joseph, 1889-1975
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, sponsor.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Holdings:

Location: Library main 79949
Call No.: ID:86-B15118
Status: Available