Pinker, Steven
How the Mind Works, 215n13
Plato, 46, 47, 55, 67, 102, 202n10,
204n19
Republic, 41
plot, as mapping device, 154
poetry, 156–57
feedback in, 156
and right brain, 157–58
tangling in, 158–59
traditional-modernist distinction, 162
Poliakoff, Serge, 9
Pollock, Jackson, 72, 173, 220–21n25[a]
Polti, Georges, 213n3
Pop Art, 44, 171, 192
Popper, Karl, 152
on art, and dogma, 101–02, 106
on avant-garde music, 98
on avant-gardism, 100–01, 103, 105
on cantus firmus, 101, 106
as composer, 99
on composers, 99–101, 103
on harmonic evolution, 104
on historicism, 105–06, 213n13
on music
and commerce, 107
and dogma, 107–08
problem solving in, 101, 103, 104,
107
and self-expression, 101, 103, 107
and society, 106
on plainchant, 102
on progressivism, 100, 103, 104
on revolutionary social change, 102–03
at the Schönberg society, 99–100
on traditions, 102, 108
“Towards a Rational Theory of
Tradition,” 212n9, 213n16
Unended Quest, 98, 101, 211n2
on Western harmony, 101
Porter, Cole, 135
postmodern art, 42, 44–45, 56, 167
genres of, 177
postmodernism, 34–36, 39, 41, 42–49,
51–52, 56–57, 130–31, 141,
144–48, 158, 165, 167, 168,
170–77, 200n2
bankruptcy of, 129–130critique of, 131–32, 141
poststructuralist theory, 144, 155, 157
Pound, Ezra, 27, 163, 198n41
pre-adaptation, 117
Pride and Prejudice (Austen), 148
Prigogine, Ilya, 152
Proust, Marcel, 156, 190
Remembrance of Things Past, 153Quinn, Marc, 225n50Ragans, Rosalind, 225n45
Rainey, Lawrence, 197n22
Rand, Ayn, 46, 48, 166, 169, 181, 185,
203–04n13
“Art and Sense of Life,” 216n5[a]
on art, as mimetic, 42
The Romantic Manifesto, 216n5[a]
Rauschenberg, Robert, 9, 177
redundancy
in communication, 160
in complexity, 159
Reinhardt, Ad, 42
Black Painting, 120
religion, crisis of, 64
religious speech, 64, 207n30, 207n32,
207n33
Rembrandt van Rijn, 3, 5, 9, 23, 39
Richter, Gerhard, 177
right brain
and metaphor, 158
and poetry, 157
Roblin, Ronald, 202n8
Rogers, Ginger, 90, 93
Rolling, James Haywood, Jr., 226n56[b],
226n56[c]
romantic irony, 61
Rorty, Richard, 80, 210n14
Rosenblum, Robert, 171
Rothko, Mark, 44
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 28
Ruscha, Ed, 177
Russian formalist critics, 144–45Sacks, Oliver242 Index