Life and art: N. Medtner’s musicand its meaning

Schizophrenic Art: Its Meaning in Psychotherapy

these two girls' productions, particularly the various types of distortion of the naturalistic appearance of objects, are also employed by the most original and successful artists, for instance, Paul Klee and Picasso. She says we do not know whether these artists achieved this mode of expression through subjective experimentation, or by being influenced by seeing the art of mentally disturbed p...

Isostasy and its Meaning

The theory of isostasy supposes that, in regions which have not been disturbed recently, each vertical column of the earth's crust with a certain minimum radius and extending to a depth of about IOO km has approximately the same mass. To find the deviation from this approximation in a given region, the density must be assumed as a function of depth. Such assumptions used at present for calculat...

Meaning in life and mortality.

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this exploratory study was to see if meaning in life is associated with mortality in old age. METHODS Interviews were conducted with a nationwide sample of older adults (N = 1,361). Data were collected on meaning in life, mortality, and select control measures. RESULTS Three main findings emerged from this study. First, the data suggest that older people with a str...

Performance Art/Life Art/ Mediafication

The Meaning of Life

EY PROF. J. K. MAJUMDAR, M. A., PH. D, A deal of ambiguity attaches to the question as to the meaning of the term 'Hfe". The term "Hfe" has usually been confined to biological phenomena ; "the initial question of Biology", we are told, "is the nature and characteristics of living matter—the determination of that wherein 'livingness' consists."^ The term "life" has been taken to be the character...