The photoplay; a psychological study (1916)

Record Details:

Title:
The photoplay; a psychological study
Date:
1916
Publisher:
New York [etc.] D. Appleton and company
Volume:
The photoplay; a psychological study
Leaf #:
000155
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Cornell University Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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THE PHOTOPLAY pathos and tragedy. True art has always been selection, but never selection of the beautiful elements in outer reality. But if the esthetic value is independent of the imitative approach to reality and inde- pendent of the elimination of unpleasant ele- ments or of the collection and addition of pleasant traits, what does the artist really se- lect and combine in his creation? How does he shape the world? How does nature look when it has been remolded by the artistic temperament and imagination? What is left of the real landscape when the engraver's needle has sketched it? "What is left of the tragic events in real life when the lyric poet has reshaped them in a few rhymed stanzas! Perhaps we may bring the characteristic fea- tures of the process most easily to recogni- tion if we contrast them with another kind of reshaping process. The same landscape which the artist sketches, the same historic event which the lyric poet interprets in his verses, may be grasped by the human mind in a wholly different way. We need only think of the scientific work of the scholar. He too may have the greatest interest in the landscape which the engraver has ren- 146