Reviews for Nature and art as needs of the mind

The average rating for Nature and art as needs of the mind based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-12-10 00:00:00 Carlos Alvarez This anthology has an absolutely fantastic selection of texts - as the blurb states, over 150 articles/essays/manifestoes etc. are included. However, fitting 150 texts in one book is not an easy task, which means that they have to be abridged. I found this very frustrating, especially because many were abridged to the extent that they became difficult to follow. Woolf's "Modern Fiction" is reduced to one measly page, for example. Moreover, the editing throughout was kept to a minimum - some references and historical context explained beyond the brief biographies would have been great. On the whole then, a great selection but not such a great execution, especially not for grad-level classes. (Tl;dr: Copy the index and read the texts yourself!)

Review # 2 was written on 2015-05-19 00:00:00 ron jaworski In teaching modernism, it is essential to have the manifesti, the cultural criticism, the political discourses right at hand when discussing what makes modernism so "different", so that students can understand why there is a "before" and "after" with regard to modernism. This anthology provides an economical way to access all those source documents that is convenient for both them and for the professor. The selection is broad enough that you can tailor the selections to whichever facet of modernism you may be covering in class, and students will still have ample documents to explore when researching final projects. My copy of this anthology is well-worn and beaten up, and that's always a good sign for any book.