September 1974
(Volume 1, Number 1)

Table of Contents

• Wayne C. Booth: "Kenneth Burke's Way of Knowing"
• Kenneth Burke: "In Response to Booth: Dancing with Tears in My Eyes"
• Quentin Bell: "Art and the Elite"
• Henry Nash Smith: "The Scribbling Women and the Cosmic Success Story"
• Elder Olson: "On Value Judgements in the Arts"
• Joshua C. Taylor: "Two Visual Excursions: I. Art and the Ethnological Artifact II. Literary Values in the Visual Arts"
• Frank Kermode: "Novels: Recognition and Deception"
• Morris Philipson: "Mrs. Dalloway, 'What's the Sense of Your Parties?"
• Rudolf Arnheim: "On the Nature of Photography"
• Leonard B. Meyer: "Concerning the Sciences, the Arts-- AND the Humanities"

ARTISTS ON THE CRITICISM OF THEIR ART

• Eudora Welty:
  • I."Is Phoenix Jackson's Grandson Really Dead? II. "A Worn Path"