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Five brilliant essays on the renewal in the arts at a time when civilization was on the threshold of sweeping change. The authors discuss not merely a change in the forms or the subject matter of the arts but a spiritual phenomenon. Each emphasizes the artist's responsibility both to the individual self and to the society that he or she expresses.
Contributors: Lewis Mumford, Pete Viereck, James A. Michener, William Schuman, and Marc Connelly.
Contents
Introduction
-Sculley Bradley
From Revolt to Renewal
-Lewis Mumford
Beyond Revolt: The Education of a Poet
-Peter Viereck
On Freedom in Music
-William Schuman
The Conscience of the Contemporary Novel
-James A. Michener
The Old Theatre and the New Challenge
-Marc Connelly
