…disadvantageous from the point of view of human survival. And in this connection I want to read a remarkable statement by Eugene Ionesco, the Playwright, which appeared in theatre arts under the title the marvelous come to life. Mr Ionesco says: a work of…

…a remarkable statement by Eugene Ionesco, the Playwright, which appeared in theatre arts under the title the marvelous come to life. Mr Ionesco says: a work of art is above all an adventure of the mind, an imaginary construct, the creation of a whole…

…dangers that threaten the theatre and beyond the theatre, the powers of the imagination. The living creative forces of the human spirit. Art, Ionesco is saying, is not art while it remains under the value system of the useful, that is to say of what is…

…This question, what does a tree represent, raises the profoundest problem of all: what is a tree for what is the universe for as Ionesco has asked? And to that question it isn't just that there is no answer, it's rather that the answer is that that is…

…because if he really saw the tree he would never ask the question: what is it for? It would answer itself. And so what Ionesco is looking towards is that there could be the possibility of there being works of art which one could behold and not ask the…