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- 1969-1971 (Creation)
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8 files
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Comprises material relating to a series of 6 lectures delivered by Bronowski entitled: 'The Power of Artifacts' (23 Feb); 'The Speaking Eye, the Visionary Ear' (2 Mar); 'Music, Metaphor and Meaning' (9 Mar); 'The Act of Recognition' (16 Mar); 'Imagination as Plan and as Experiment' (23 Mar); and 'The Play of Values in the Work of Art' (30 Mar).
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One file (original reference Box 46, file 8) was removed as it contained duplicate copies of typescripts of the lectures.
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See Bronowski 13/15 for audio recordings of the lectures, and Bronowski 4/3/1 for further files relating to the lectures.
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The 'Art as a Mode of Knowledge' lectures were published in a posthumous collection of Bronowski's essays entitled 'The Visionary Eye: Essays in the Arts, Literature, and Science' (the M.I.T. Press, 1978).