ABSTRACT
It is probably not rash to assume that a given form of art arises or flourishes in response to the creative individual’s intuitive apprehension of needs within himself. By virtue of a well-nurtured sensitivity, the better artist will often anticipate the emergence of similar general needs on the part of his fellows. The existence of an aesthetic methodology, even its brilliant consummation, insures little in the absence of social responsiveness at some level. An elite reaction can function as a holding action, but a more general response will still be crucial for fruition. Some of the human conditions discussed below raise perplexing issues in regard to this previously natural interplay of proposal and disposition.
