Current Literature on Aesthetics

Abstract

Against the changing background of the educational theories and practices of our day it is clear that new ways of thinking, feeling, and communicating are evolving. To the teacher and to the artist these new ways are significant in so far as they have roots in the past, vitality and adaptability in the present, and give promise of fruit in the future. It is obvious that a culture with education in art appreciation stimulated, visually, by articles in such periodicals as Life, Time, and Look, by such illustrated volumes as those issued by Skira, Praeger, and Abrams, and by such encyclopedic undertakings as the multi-volumed survey of art history from the presses of McGraw-Hill, and, auditionally, by such radio and television programs as are now being offered, aided by individually phoned lectures in our now “living” museums, it is appropriate for both teacher and artist to join the layman in a new effort at orientation of art with the whole range of life.