by Edgar Wind, Professor of the History of Art In the University of Oxford and Fellow of Trinity College
For more than a century now, Professor Wind claims, Western art has been produced and enjoyed on the assumption that it should pull the spectator away from his ordinary preoccupations. This, Professor Wind thinks, reduces the spectator to an observer who watches without participation; and he suggests what can be done to render our participation more vital.
Repeated on Tuesday at 8.0 (Third)
Next Sunday: 3: Critique of Connoisseurship
These Lectures are being printed in 'The Listener'