Five brilliant essays on the renewal in the arts at a time when civilization was on the threshold of sweeping change. The authors discuss not merely a change in the forms or the subject matter of the arts but a spiritual phenomenon. Each emphasizes the artist's responsibility both to the individual self and to the society that he or she expresses.
Contributors Lewis Mumford, Pete Viereck, James A. Michener, William Schuman, and Marc Connelly.