Modern Culture and the Arts

abstract Absurd actors aesthetic American André Bazin architect architecture arcology Arthur Adamov artist audience avant-garde beautiful become Berenice Abbott camera century character cinema communication create creative criticism culture dance direct cinema director dramatic dreams E. E. Cummings elements emotions epic epic theater existence experience expression fact feeling film film director function happen Henri Cartier-Bresson human idea illusion imagination imitation interest invention Ionesco jazz Jerry Uelsmann kind kitsch language listener literary literature living Marx Brothers material matter means ment Merce Cunningham mind moving nature never novel object painter painting performance photographer picture play poem poet poetic poetry popular art possible present problem produced pure reality relation sculpture seems sense social question society sound space spirit stage structure surrealist T. S. Eliot television theatre things tion tradition Ubu Roi visual words write