Nobody can foresee the ways which the new art of the
photoplay will open, but everybody ought to recognize even today that it
is worth while to help this advance and to make the art of the film a
medium for an original creative expression of our time and to mold by it
the esthetic instincts of the millions. Yes, it is a new art--and this
is why it has such fascination for the psychologist who in a world of
ready-made arts, each with a history of many centuries, suddenly finds a
new form still undeveloped and hardly understood. For the first time the
psychologist can observe the starting of an entirely new esthetic
development, a new form of true beauty in the turmoil of a technical
age, created by its very technique and yet more than any other art
destined to overcome outer nature by the free and joyful play of the
mind.
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BOOKS BY HUGO MUeNSTERBERG
Psychology and Life
pp. 286, Boston, 1899
Grundzuege der Psychologie
pp. 565, Leipzig, 1900
American Traits
pp. 235, Boston, 1902
Die Amerikaner
pp. 502 and 349, Berlin, 1904 (Rev, 1912)
Principles of Art Education
pp. 118, New York, 1905
The Eternal Life
pp. 72, Boston, 1905
Science and Idealism
pp. 71, Boston, 1906
Philosophie der Werte
pp. 486, Leipzig, 1907
On the Witness Stand
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