The Human Situation 13: Art
Aldous Huxley
Jonathan
May 12, 20269 November 1959UC Santa Barbara, CA
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The lecture argues that art helps humans impose order and meaning on experience through symbols, imagination, and form. It contrasts art with science and philosophy, surveys major artistic methods and historical styles, and ends by suggesting music and the arts reveal both inner life and deeper cosmic order.
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