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Author Rader, Melvin (Melvin Miller), 1903-1981.

Title A modern book of esthetics : an anthology / Edited with introd. and notes by Melvin Rader
Edition Third edition
Published [New York] : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, [1960]

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Description xxxii, 540 pages ; 25 cm
Contents Introducion The meaning of art -- pt. 1. Art and the creative process 1. Art as semblance -- 2. Art as beauty -- 3. Art as emotional expression -- 4. Art as intuition -- 5. Art as wish-fulfillment -- 6. Art as vivid experience -- 7. Can "art" be defined? -- pt. 2. The work of art 8. The "body" of the work -- 9. Expressiveness -- 10. Form -- 11. Form and function -- pt. 3. Appreciation and criticism 12. Empathy and abstraction -- 13. Distance and dehumanization -- 14. Isolation and synaesthesis -- 15. Criticism
Notes Bibliography: p. 535-560
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 505-533
Notes Also issued online
SUBJECT Serie Esthétique. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85801838
Subject Aesthetics.
LC no. 60008597