The sense of beauty : being the outlines of aesthetic theory / George Santayana.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Santayana, George, 1863-1952, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 275 pages)

Other Title:

Sense of Beauty, The

Place of Publication:

New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1896.

Summary:

"This work contains the chief ideas gathered together for a course of lectures on the theory and history of aesthetics given at Harvard College from 1892 to 1895. The only originality the author claims is that which may result from the attempt to put together the scattered commonplaces of criticism into a system, under the inspiration of a naturalistic psychology. His effort throughout has been to recall those fundamental aesthetic feelings the orderly extension of which yields sanity of judgment and distinction of taste"--Pref. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved).

Contents:

The nature of beauty

The materials of beauty

Form

Expression.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references.