Drummond Dawson - Required Reading #1

It is interesting how Jane Ellen Harrison expresses art. Around page 34, she discusses that art, in this case dance, should only utter emotion and not represent it. This agrees with Plato's art is imitation in that art may exempt an emotion such as sadness but it does not represent visually. One has to use the eyes to examine an artwork, that is true, but that is an constant within the equation of Plato; it does not matter. The artwork expresses sadness but visually it does not. Sadness is a concept not a visual phenomenon.