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Susanne Langer's Concept of Secondary Illusion in Music and Art

1995; University of Illinois Press; Volume: 29; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/3333290

1543-7809

Mary J. Reichling,

Art, Technology, and Culture

It seems especially timely in this centennial year of the birth of Susanne Langer to take a closer look at a concept in her writing that has received little if any attention in the literature and yet is an important key to explaining her wide appeal among musicians and artists. That is her notion of illusions and particularly her quite original concept of secondary illusions. Other writers have noted renewed interest in aesthetic illusion but attribute