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[More recent works on Greek drama: A.W. PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE, Dithyramb, Tragedy and Comedy, 1927; G. THOMSON, Aeschylus and Athens, 1941.]

For Primitive Art:

HIRN, Y. The Origins of Art, 1900. The main theory of the book the
    present writer believes to be inadequate, but it contains an
    excellent collection of facts relating to Art, Magic, Art and Work,
    Mimetic Dances, etc., and much valuable discussion of principles.

GROSSE, E. The Beginnings of Art, 1897, in the Chicago Anthropological
Series. Valuable for its full illustrations of primitive art, as
well as for text.

[BOAS, F., Primitive Art, 1927.]

For the Theory of Art:

TOLSTOY, L. What is Art? Translated by Aylmer Maude, in the Scott
Library.

FRY, ROGER E. An Essay in AEsthetics, in the New Quarterly, April 1909,
p. 174.

This is the best general statement of the function of Art known to me. It should be read in connection with Mr. Bullough’s article, quoted on p. 129, which gives the psychological basis of a similar view of the nature of art. My own theory was formulated independently, in relation to the development of the Greek theatre, but I am very glad to find that it is in substantial agreement with those of two such distinguished authorities on aesthetics. For my later conclusions on art, see Alpha and Omega, 1915, pp. 208-220.

[CAUDWELL, C., Illusion and Reality, 1937.]

For more advanced students:

DUSSAUZE, HENRI. Les Regles esthetiques et les lois du sentiment, 1911.

MUeLLER-FREIENFELS, R. Psychologie der Kunst, 1912.

INDEX

Abstraction, 224

Adonis, rites of, 19, 20, 54-56 ——, gardens of, 149 ——, as tree spirit, 149

AEschylus, 47

Aesthete, not artist, 214-215

Agon, 15

Anagnorisis, or recognition, 15

Anthesteria, spring festival of, 147-149

Apollo Belvedere, 171

Aristotle on art, 198

Art and beauty, 213 —— and imitation, 230 —— and morality, 215 —— and nature, 198 —— and religion, 225 ——, emotional factor in, 26 ——, social elements in, 241-248

Ascension festival, 69