Abstract

Art and Jazz

This article presents information on book "The Seven Lively Arts," by author Gilbert Seldes. According to the author art values differ only in degree; and so closely related and mixed is the stuff of lire that it is practically impossible at times to ascertain at what point an emotional element attains independence and distinction in its own right. Thus it happens that beginners in aesthetics, on discovering the same psychological constituents in higher and lower forms, are moved to unseemly enthusiasms, and are led to magnify the significance of the antic or "lively arts," as Seldes labels them. Psychological values have been so driven into creative processes that the end and purpose of these processes have been buried in a mass of subjective commentary.