Significant Form

• Art: what is articulated and has import. (Langer, Feeling and Form, p. 31)

• “The basic concept is the articulate but non-discursive form having import without conventional reference, and therefore presenting itself not as a symbol in the ordinary sense, but as a “significant form,” in which the factor of significance is not logically discriminated, but is felt as a quality rather than recognized as a function. If this basic concept be applicable to all products of what we call “the arts,” …then all the essential propositions in the theory of music may be extended to the other arts, for they all define or elucidate the nature of the symbol and its import.” (Ibid., p.32)

See LifeAsArt, QualityWithoutaName, SymbolIsm.

--EdBuffaloe

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The first seems to say that computer programs and bridges are art. The second seems to say that representational art isn't art. What am I missing?

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Is what is "articulated" meant?

What if "it" is a "symbol" in desguise like a poem in morning clothes mourning its metamorphosis into a "significant form" which is the sunset which is both? Sex is the problem. We jump. We jump. From quality to function to all the arts to music as a possible theory to be used in "all" the arts. Blame it on language. Language is the problem articulating in process the nature of the non non-discursive.