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THE PRINCIPLES OF AESTHETICS

BY
DEWITT H. PARKER
PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

PREFACE

This book has grown out of lectures to students at the University ofMichigan and embodies my effort to express to them the nature andmeaning of art. In writing it, I have sought to maintain scientificaccuracy, yet at the same time to preserve freedom of style andsomething of the inspiration of the subject. While intended primarilyfor students, the book will appeal generally, I hope, to people whoare interested in the intelligent appreciation of art.

My obligations are extensive,—most directly to those whom I have citedin foot-notes to the text, but also to others whose influence is tooindirect or pervasive to make citation profitable, or too obvious tomake it necessary. For the broader philosophy of art, my debt isheaviest, I believe, to the artists and philosophers during the periodfrom Herder to Hegel, who gave to the study its greatest development,and, among contemporaries, to Croce and Lipps. In addition, I havedrawn freely upon the more special investigations of recent times, butwith the caution desirable in view of the very tentative character ofsome of the results. To Mrs. Robert M. Wenley I wish to express mythanks for her very careful and helpful reading of the page proof.

The appended bibliography is, of course, not intended to be in anysense adequate, but is offered merely as a guide to further reading;a complete bibliography would itself demand almost a volume.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. Introduction: Purpose and Method
CHAPTER II. The Definition of Art
CHAPTER III. The Intrinsic Value of Art
CHAPTER IV. The Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience: The Elements of the Experience
CHAPTER V. The Analysis of the Aesthetic Experience: The Structure of the Experience
CHAPTER VI. The Problem of Evil in Aesthetics, and Its Solutionthrough the Tragic, Pathetic, and Comic
CHAPTER VII. The Standard of Taste
CHAPTER VIII. The Aesthetics of Music
CHAPTER IX. The Aesthetics of Poetry
CHAPTER X. Prose Literature
CHAPTER XI. The Dominion of Art over Nature: Painting
CHAPTER XII. The Dominion of Art over Nature: Sculpture
CHAPTER XIII. Beauty in the Industrial Arts: Architecture
CHAPTER XIV. The Function of Art: Art and Morality
CHAPTER XV. The Function of Art: Art and Religion
BIBLIOGRAPHY

THE PRINCIPLES OF AESTHETICS

CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION: PURPOSE AND METHOD

Although some feeling for beauty is perhaps universal among men, thesame cannot be said of the understanding of beauty. The average man,who may exercise considerable taste in personal adornment, in thedecoration of the home, or in the choice of poetry and painting, isat a loss when called upon to tell what art is or to explain why hecalls one thing "beautiful" and another "ugly." Even the artist andthe connoisseur, skilled to produce or accurate in judgment, are oftenwanting in clea

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