The Arts Without Mystery
Denis Donoghue, the Henry James Professor of Letters at New York University, gives the second of six lectures on the place of the arts in modern society.
2: The Domestication of Outrage
'The disproportion between the artist and his work - the fact that a little work goes a long way to sustain a personality, marks a reversal of the traditional relation between the two. It was long thought a sign of success in an artist that he disappeared Into his work, leaving no merely personal residue. But we have now reached a situation in which privacy and reserve can be converted to visible purpose.'
(Rptd: Sunday 5.0 pm, R3) (This lecture appears in the LISTENER dated 18 Nov)