Aesthetics and art theory an historical introduction - Osborne, Harold 1905-1987 (New York, N.Y. E.P. Dutton Co., Inc., 1970)
The classical concept of art. Art as craft ; A socioeconomic theory of art ; Appendix 1 : the social position of the artist ; Appendix 2 : functional theories of beauty -- Naturalism. Greek and Renaissance naturalism ; Critical criteria of naturalism ; Appendix : the concept of Mimesis -- Naturalism. Realism ; Anti-idealism ; Perfectionist idealism ; Normative idealism ; Metaphysical idealism ; Appendix : symmetry and proportion -- The aesthetics of Chinese pictorial art. The six canons of painting ; Critical standards -- Medieval and Renaissance aesthetics. The theological character of medieval aesthetics ; Didactic function and the moral criterion ; St. Thomas Aquinas ; Principles of Renaissance aesthetics -- Eighteenth-century British aesthetics. The disinterested attitude ; Feeling as the source of aesthetic experience ; The standard of taste -- Kant's critique of judgment -- The Aesthetics of romanticism. Inspiration ; Genius ; Appendix : imagination -- Theories of expression and communication. Art as self-expression ; Art as emotional communication ; Art as emotional embodiment -- Aesthetics in the twentieth century. Analytical philosophy ; Art and emotion ; The autonomy of the artwork ; Sociological aesthetics ; Marxism ; Organic unity ; Aesthetic value.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-313) and index.
Keywords: Aesthetics -- History