A modern book of esthetics : an anthology

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Introduction : the meaning of art

pt. I. Imitation and imagination. Nature's imitation of art / Oscar Wilde

Truth and the stereotype / E.H. Gombrich

Emotion. Art as the expression of emotion / Eugene Veron

The communication of emotion / Leo Tolstoy

Art and the language of the emotions / C.J. Ducasse

Intuition-expression. The individual and the type / Henri Bergson

Intuition and expression / Benedetto Croce

Imaginative satisfaction of desire. Apollinian and Dionysian art / Friedrich Nietzsche

Wish-fulfillment and the unconscious / Sigmund Freud

Poetry's dream-work / Christopher Caudwell

Enhancement of experience. Having an experience / John Dewey

Virtual experience / Dorothy Walsh

Embodiment of values. The nature of beauty / George Santayana

Values, feeling and embodiment / Louis Arnaud Reid

pt. II. The work of art. The matter of the arts. The esthetic attitude in its embodiments / Bernard Bosanquet

Materials and techniques / Bernard Berenson

Seeing photographically / Edward Weston

The film age / Arnold Hauser

The dance / Etienne Gilson

Expressiveness. Tragedy / George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Expressiveness and symbolism / Susanne K. Langer

The composer and his message / Roger Sessions

The expressiveness of visual forms / Rudolf Arnheim

Form. Significant form / Clive Bell

The shape of content / Ben Shahn

Organic unity / Harold Osborne

Structure and organization / Horatio Greenough

Style / Meyer Schapiro

pt. III. The response to the esthetic object. The experiences of the beholder. A theory of esthetic experience / Immanuel Kant

Physical distance / Edward Bullough

The dehumanization of art / Jose Ortega y Gasset

Empathy, inner imitation and sense-feelings / Theodor Lipps

Education for aesthetic vision / Virgil C. Aldrich

The standards of the critic. The classification of critical reasons / Monroe C. Beardsley

The whole and the parts / Lucien Goldmann

Contextualizing criticism / Stephen C. Pepper

Easy and difficult beauty / Bernard Bosanquet

Benefit of clergy / George Orwell

The definitions of the philosopher. Games and definitions / Ludwig Wittgenstein

The role of theory in esthetics / Morris Weitz

Family resemblances and generalization concerning the arts / Maurice Mandelbaum

What is art? An institutional analysis / George Dickie

The concerns of the community. Esthetic play and human liberation / Friedrich Schiller

Art and history / Karl Marx

Art in an age of science and technology / Melvin Rader and Bertram Jessup

The esthetic assimilation of the machine / Lewis Mumford

Design with nature / Ian McHarg