In this way, terms as, for example, "spatial division", "rhythmical arrangement" and "colour contrast" are introduced in an attempt to account for the intensity and emotional charge of a picture whereas any disinterested inspection would reveal these rather to lie in the social discrepancies between the people depicted, or between their world and that of the spectator. ... In a field in which increasingly more specialized books (on books on pictures) abound this is the ever noteworthy appeal to come back to our senses. ...

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Two main issues of disagreement were in the aesthetics of the actor and in the emotional smoothness of the performance. ... In 1936, Constantin Stanislavski wrote the first of three books explaining the system the actors at the MAT used. ... Because Boleslavsky, who particularly favoured the emotional work, left Stanislavski at the height of Stanislavski's interest in emotional psychology, Strasberg was presented with a prejudiced, slightly inaccurate view of Stanislavski's system. ...

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Poetry and Unreality is Plato's famous attack on poetry and by extension, all forms of art which are aimed at inducing pleasure. Plato claims that poetry is two stages removed from the truth. Artists have no contribution to a society and their creations are merely representations of the reality. Hen...

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• Grade Level: High School