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Examines the sources for art which have historically been concerned with the transcendent and the universal, without which art, and art education, run the risk of becoming anti-aesthetic.

Table of Contents

Introduction Intuition in Aesthetic Appreciation Aesthetics Leon Battista Alberti Georgio Vasari and the Origin of the Image of the Artist The Image of the Artist as Rebel and Social Critic Lomazzo and Bellori and the Hardening of the Term of Imitation The French Academy Roger De Piles The Evolution to Romanticism Johann J. Winckelman Sir Joshua Reynolds The Salon Shows Denis Diderot The Romantic Critics Charles Baudelaire Art for Art's Sake John Ruskin Walter Pater Modernist Art Criticism Roger Fry Clement Greenberg Art as Political Rhetoric Harold Rosenberg Post Modernism: Anomaly in Art Critical Theory Feminist Art Criticism The Search for Aesthetic Meaning in Art Education

About the Author

DAVID KENNETH HOLT holds an Ed.D. from Northern Illinois University. He is currently a writer and printmaker living in New Paltz, NY.