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The Arts Without Mystery
An essay discussing the dramatic transformation in the twentieth-century relationship between art and society offers insight into the disappearance of artistic standards, the development of esoteric art theories, the growth of avant-garde art, and other topics
151 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1984
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August 19, 2021
Donoghue is, as ever, challenging but as always, enriching. Reading these lectures forty years after his delivery of them - and his commentaries on them in the light of contemporary reactions to them - leaves one asking whether or not he was casting pearls before swine. Swine we may be, but as Wilde said, while wallowing in the gutter we can also look at the stars. Donoghue invites us and helps us to do so. How sad that he left us earlier this year. How wonderful, however, that he now participates in those very mysteries and the intimations of them which he shared with us in these lectures.
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