A New Theory of Art

Approaches to Cultural Analysis

“…New relationships suggest new "structures of feeling," structures "at the very edge of semantic availability" (p. 134). Brook (1980) argues that this is a necessary condition of what art, properly so-called, is. However, the residuai and emergent exist as such only by their relation to the dominant, and they are always in danger of incorporation (Williams, 1977, pp.…”