Special Issue of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism published in 1944. Edited by Dagobert D. Runes. Contents include: "Editorial;" "The Visual Arts and Post-War Society," by Robert L. Lepper; "Contemporary Painting," by Lester D. Longman which incorporates a four-fold horizontal pull-out topographic map of "Post-Impressionism, 1885 - 1905"; "Theatre Today, Symptoms and Surmises," by George Beiswanger; "The Role of Architecture in Future Civilization," by Paul Zucker; "The Art of the Movies in American Life," by Milton S. Fox; "Music and Social Crisis," by Ernst Krenek; "Poetry Today and Tomorrow," by Robert P. Tristram Coffin; "Problems and Prospects of Civic Planning," by Theron I. Cain; "The Arts and Social Reconstruction," by Alfred Neumeyer; "Art, Aesthetics, and Liberal Education," by Thomas Munro; "Art Ahead," by Van Meter Ames; "The Social Message of Art," by Max Schoen; "Of Democracy and the Arts," by H.M. Kallen; and "Contributors."
