Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

"Creative Intuition contains a wealth of concrete perception on the most varied aesthetic problems. It is impossible to do more than mention M. Maritain's beautifully balanced chapter on abstract art, his discussion of the difference between classical and modern poetic imagery, and gentle irony with which he chronicles the over-zealousness of modern critics who use Dante to denigrate modern poetry...It is a rare pleasure to read a work characterized by this habit of mind and this sensibility...the best attempt yet made to write a poetics of modern art." This book grew out of six lectures given at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in the spring of 1952.