Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present: A Short History

Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present: A Short History. This work 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.