1. The image of man in the visual arts a] The human body and face as such b] The individual portrait c] The human group. The beautified man: Man no longer the essence of nature, but a piece of nature. As such shown in his ugliness or beautified (the latter especially in the religious realm). Now this alternative overcome in steps. The Harlekin, the prostitute. Expressing (using still natural form), distortion into parts and figures, dissection into elements, removal. The religious protest from the idea of creation. The portrait as special problem. Similarity but

intensified (brilliant portraits) - Emphasis on one element reducing similarity, ... Remaining problem of portrait in expressionist {style} or abstract style. Removal of indi- viduality. Man drawn into the group as into nature. The ecsta- tic or demonic group (no relations); the disappearance of groups In sculpture pieces of anorganic matter with holes Faces expressing anxiety and despair. Buildings great by their asceticism; but without [...] "symbols of the soul" The neoclassic longing. 2. The image of man in the novel. The adequacy of the novel to the industrial society. The educational, romantic, social, naturalistic, demonic-realistic

{demonic-romantic}, psychological, existential (Camus^h Fall) Positive elements? (Peste? Holy Sinner?) 3. The image of man in drama The social-bourgeois drama (Ibsenⁱ). Symbolic elements (Strindberg^j). Gorki^k? The Americans upto Bekker Man stripped of meaning. The empty time of "Goudet", not genuine waiting. The situation of hell (Sartre^l) not psy- chologically motivated. Not tragedy (Iceman cometh) but mere negativity. (Death of a salesman) "Cat on the hot tin roof" "Streetcar [...] named desire". Man less than tragic. But: The religious dama? 4. The image of man in poetry. Some of the earliest eruptions (Baudelaire^m, Rimbaudⁿ)

Here also the first reaction to religion. The possibility of the individual to escape 5. The image of man in dance and music Not the vital selfexpression, but the expression of something which is not the body itself (The god or demon dancing through the body. The old mask) Music?