The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture, and Literature Paperback – November 21, 1968

Gorgeous clarity. What a supreme stylist and penetrating thinker Gasset was.

I read the original version in Spanish and was so impressed by Ortega y Gasset's analysis of "new" (= modern) art, that I bought a copy in English for a friend. Assuming the translation is good, then this is a must-read for anyone who every looked at a Picasso painting or listened to a Debussy piano piece and said, What the heck *is* this?

This is an amazing book full of insights cemented by brilliant logic. Just one essay "In search if Goethe from within" already makes it worth buying.

An important work in the history of ideas and critical theory, overlooked in recent criticism. Some judgments are dated, but the reasoning is sound and inspiring. Connects twentieth century problems and ideas with philosophical positions dating back to Plato. Precise and forceful. Smokes Foucault. Especially helpful: "On Point of View in the Arts" and "In Search of Goethe from Within."

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Ortega's essays are brief, but deeply insightful. His perspectives on the development of western art is something worth considering, although his defense of where art should be headed may not rest well with readers who are uncomfortable with the notion of a dehumanized art.

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