[59] It is interesting to find, since the above was written, that the
Confession of Faith published in the catalogue of the Second
Post-Impressionist Exhibition (1912, p. 21) reproduces, consciously or
unconsciously, Tolstoy's view: _We have ceased to ask, "What does this
picture represent?" and ask instead, "What does it make us feel?"_
BIBLIOGRAPHY
For Ancient and Primitive Ritual the best general book of reference is:
FRAZER, J.G. _The Golden Bough_, 3rd edition, 1911, from which most of
the instances in the present manual are taken. Part IV of _The Golden
Bough_, i.e. the section dealing with _Adonis, Attis, and Osiris_,
should especially be consulted.
Also an earlier, epoch-making book:
ROBERTSON SMITH, W. _Lectures on the Religion of the Semites_, 1889 [3rd
edition, 1927]. For certain fundamental ritual notions, _e.g._
sacrifice, holiness, etc.
[For Egyptian and Babylonian ritual: _Myth and Ritual_, edited by
S.H. HOOKE, 1933.]
For the Greek Drama, as arising out of the ritual dance: Professor
GILBERT MURRAY'S _Excursus on the Ritual Forms preserved in Greek
Tragedy_ in J.E. HARRISON'S _Themis_, 1912, and pp. 327-40 in the same
book; and for the religion of Dionysos and the drama, J.E. HARRISON'S
_Prolegomena_, 1907, Chapters VIII and X. For the fusion of the ritual
dance and hero-worship, see W. LEAF, _Homer and History_, 1915, Chapter
VII. For a quite different view of drama as arising wholly from the
worship of the dead, see Professor W. RIDGEWAY, _The Origin of Tragedy_,
1910. An important discussion of the relation of _tragedy_ to the winter
festival of the _Lenaia_ appears in A.B. COOK'S _Zeus_, vol. i, sec. 6
(xxi) [1914].
[More recent works on Greek drama: A.W. PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE, _Dithyramb_,
_Tragedy and Comedy_, 1927; G. THOMSON, _Aeschylus and Athens_, 1941.]
For Primitive Art:
HIRN, Y. _The Origins of Art_, 1900. The main theory of the book the
present writer believes to be inadequate, but it contains an
excellent collection of facts relating to Art, Magic, Art and Work,
Mimetic Dances, etc., and much valuable discussion of principles.
GROSSE, E. _The Beginnings of Art_, 1897, in the Chicago Anthropological
Series. Valuable for its full illustrations of primitive art, as
well as for text.
[BOAS, F., _Primitive Art_, 1927.]
For the Theory of Art:
TOLSTOY, L. _What is Art?_ Translated by Aylmer Maude, in the Scott
Library.
FRY, ROGER E. _An Essay in Æsthetics_, in the _New Quarterly_, April 1909,
p. 174.
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