Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present - Beardsley, Monroe C
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At once a treatise for professionals and a guide for newcomers to the subject, Aesthetics is ideal both as an introductory survey of the literature on theories of art and beauty from earliest times to the present and as a text for courses in the philosophy of art. The author examines all major aspects of Western aesthetic thought, and a third of the book focuses specifically on 19th-and-20th century aesthetic theory.

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At once a treatise for professionals and a guide for newcomers to the subject, Aesthetics is ideal both as an introductory survey of the literature on theories of art and beauty from earliest times to the present and as a text for courses in the philosophy of art. The author examines all major aspects of Western aesthetic thought, and a third of the book focuses specifically on 19th-and-20th century aesthetic theory.
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Monroe C. Beardsley (1915-1985) work in aesthetics is best known for its championing of the instrumentalist theory of art and the concept of aesthetic experience. He was elected president of the American Society for Aesthetics in 1956. He also wrote an introductory text on aesthetics and edited a well-regarded survey of anthology of philosophy. He is also the author of The Aesthetic Point of View: Selected Essays and The European Philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche.