Mystery of the Portal Dance Trevor
Mystery of the Portal Dance Trevor "Abstract thoughts deaden artistic fantasy. This is a terrible product of a materialistic age: scholars write commentaries; learned descriptions of the art of…
Specifikacia Mystery of the Portal Dance Trevor
Mystery of the Portal Dance Trevor
"Abstract thoughts deaden artistic fantasy. This is a terrible product of a materialistic age: scholars write commentaries; learned descriptions of the art of Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo are coffins in which genuine artistic feeling, living art, lie buried. Becoming more and more logical, one takes to writing commentaries on works of art.
Abstract thoughts have murdered the work of art." -- Rudolf SteinerThe philosopher and educationalist Rudolf Steiner was also a radical dramatist who wrote four lengthy and complex plays. If one picks up a Faust or Hamlet commentary, it is like touching a corpse. The first of these, The Portal of Initiation, is rich in content and artistically presented, but leaves us with questions: Why is the first scene so long and many speeches so lengthy?
Why are our usual expectations of drama not met? Was Steiner really a