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Underlying this treatise is the objectivist philosophy which has located Ayn Rand in the mainstream of American thought.

Customer Reviews
Customer rating is 5 of 5  Ayn Rand is a great writer   2010-01-30
By Kristin Bauer
This book is wonderful for an artist or an Ayn Rand lover, she is just truly a master of expression.
Customer rating is 5 of 5  Very Interesting essay about art and its value on our lives   2010-01-18
By Fredy Flores Gutierrez (Honduras, Tegucigalpa)
I bought this book looking for tips and "inspiration" for my own writing, and I got more than that, this book is a clear view about the philosophy or Rand and the purpose of the romantic literature, it brings interesting questions about the decline of this movement and the causes that started it, also I would strongly reccomend it to anyone that wants to start writing since a great part of this book deal with the core concepts of a proper work of fiction.
Customer rating is 5 of 5  The Romantic Manifesto   2009-08-13
By Eunice Williams (Sperry, Oklahoma USA)
Everything about the purchase of this book was great and deserves a five star rating. One's personal library concerning philosophy and the importance of understanding art from a different perspective would be incomplete without this book.
Customer rating is 5 of 5  Complicated But Good   2008-08-11
By Knarf
I'm aware that Ian is regarded as one of the greatest writers, if not the greatest female writer's ever known, but I found it very difficult to get through her book. However, I did enjoy reading it and I did gain some insight for my efforts. It's been some time since I read her book and I still find myself thinking about many of the things she talked about: That's not true with most books I read. My advice is to have a dictionary by your side while reading Ian's book.
Customer rating is 5 of 5  Entertaining and thought-provoking   2007-08-13
By Pieter (Johannesburg)
This is a compelling work on the nature and meaning of art. Besides containing Rand's manifesto, it is also a highly entertaining piece of criticism and analysis of art, culture and psychology.

In the introductory chapter: The Psycho-Epistemology Of Art, Rand defines art as a selective recreation of reality according to the artist's metaphysical value judgements. Art brings one's concepts to the perceptual level of conscience and enables one to grasp them directly as if they were precepts.

Chapter 2, Philosophy And Sense Of Life, deals with the "merciless recorder" that is the integrating mechanism of the subconscious mind. The next chapter, Art And Sense Of Life, opens with a fascinating observation on a hypothetical painting. Here Rand further explains the concept of a sense of life as it manifests in art. She argues that the emotion involved in art is automatically immediate and that it holds a deeply personal value-significance to the person experiencing it.

Art And Cognition is devoted to the question: What are the valid forms of art, and why? Here the author explores literature, painting, sculpture, music and architecture in turn. I find her speculations on music particularly thought-provoking.

Rand refers to Aristotle in discussing the attributes of the novel in Basic Principles Of Literature: theme, plot, characterization and style. Chapter 6 provides a definition of Romanticism, which recognizes volition, as opposed to Naturalism which denies it. She identifies determinism as the basic premise of naturalism in The Aesthetic Vacuum Of Our Age and hails the appearance of the novel in the 19th century as the vehicle of Romanticism.

Other essays include discussions on bootleg romanticism and moral treason in art, whilst the actual manifesto appears in chapter 11: The Goal Of My Writing and chapter 10: Introduction To Ninety-Three. This essay is an abbreviated version of the introduction she wrote for a 1962 edition of the book by Victor Hugo. The Romantic Manifesto concludes with The Simplest Thing In The World, a short story that illustrates the nature of the creative process.

Throughout this fascinating book, Rand provides examples of different manifestations of art plus informed criticism of personalities and a wide variety of works like Anna Karenina, Thomas Aquinas, The Avengers, Balzac, Dostoevsky, Lord Byron, Camille, Günter Grass, Salvador Dali, Don Carlos, Dumas, Flaubert, Ian Fleming, Gone With The Wind, Goya, O Henry, Alfred Hitchcock, Victor Hugo, Boris Karloff, Fritz Lang, Ira Levin, Michelangelo, Edgar Allan Poe, Friedrich Schiller, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Jan Vermeer, HG Wells, Thomas Wolfe and Emile Zola. Both high and popular culture is covered.

One does not need to agree with Rand's analyses and manifesto to find this a most stimulating and highly entertaining read. Many of her insights are valid and quite relevant to the state of culture and civilization today.

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