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Berleant has written the primer for a new aesthetics... Readers will be delighted by the hundreds of thoughtful and pertinent examples form neolithic to contemporary and from non-Western as well as Western sources... [Y]ou cannot help but admire the breadth of research and intellectual courage required to bring such a big book to light. -The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Art and Engagement presents a forceful argument for the originality and power of aesthetic perception. Demolishing the conceptual barriers erected by limiting Western traditions, the book discloses the condition of engagement involved in our most effective aesthetic encounters and suggests a new direction for aesthetic inquiry. -American Society for Aesthetics Newsletter [Berleant] brings his full repertoire of knowledge to bear on this most interesting of problems: just how, precisely, do we derive aesthetic reaction from confrontation with a work of art? ...This is a closely studied argument beginning with theoretical studies into the idea of 'engagement'...appropriate for those interested in its application to aesthetic inquiry. -Art Times

Berleant has written the primer for a new aesthetics... Readers will be delighted by the hundreds of thoughtful and pertinent examples form neolithic to contemporary and from non-Western as well as Western sources... [Y]ou cannot help but admire the breadth of research and intellectual courage required to bring such a big book to light. -The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Art and Engagement presents a forceful argument for the originality and power of aesthetic perception. Demolishing the conceptual barriers erected by limiting Western traditions, the book discloses the condition of engagement involved in our most effective aesthetic encounters and suggests a new direction for aesthetic inquiry. -American Society for Aesthetics Newsletter [Berleant] brings his full repertoire of knowledge to bear on this most interesting of problems: just how, precisely, do we derive aesthetic reaction from confrontation with a work of art? ...This is a closely studied argument beginning with theoretical studies into the idea of 'engagement'...appropriate for those interested in its application to aesthetic inquiry. -Art Times

Berleant has written the primer for a new aesthetics... Readers will be delighted by the hundreds of thoughtful and pertinent examples form neolithic to contemporary and from non-Western as well as Western sources... [Y]ou cannot help but admire the breadth of research and intellectual courage required to bring such a big book to light. --The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Art and Engagement presents a forceful argument for the originality and power of aesthetic perception. Demolishing the conceptual barriers erected by limiting Western traditions, the book discloses the condition of engagement involved in our most effective aesthetic encounters and suggests a new direction for aesthetic inquiry. --American Society for Aesthetics Newsletter [Berleant] brings his full repertoire of knowledge to bear on this most interesting of problems: just how, precisely, do we derive aesthetic reaction from confrontation with a work of art? ...This is a closely studied argument beginning with theoretical studies into the idea of 'engagement'...appropriate for those interested in its application to aesthetic inquiry. --Art Times

""Berleant has written the primer for a new aesthetics... Readers will be delighted by the hundreds of thoughtful and pertinent examples form neolithic to contemporary and from non-Western as well as Western sources... [Y]ou cannot help but admire the breadth of research and intellectual courage required to bring such a big book to light."" --The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism ""Art and Engagement presents a forceful argument for the originality and power of aesthetic perception. Demolishing the conceptual barriers erected by limiting Western traditions, the book discloses the condition of engagement involved in our most effective aesthetic encounters and suggests a new direction for aesthetic inquiry."" --American Society for Aesthetics Newsletter ""[Berleant] brings his full repertoire of knowledge to bear on this most interesting of problems: just how, precisely, do we derive aesthetic reaction from confrontation with a work of art? ...This is a closely studied argument beginning with theoretical studies into the idea of 'engagement'...appropriate for those interested in its application to aesthetic inquiry."" --Art Times

Berleant has written the primer for a new aesthetics... Readers will be delighted by the hundreds of thoughtful and pertinent examples form neolithic to contemporary and from non-Western as well as Western sources... [Y]ou cannot help but admire the breadth of research and intellectual courage required to bring such a big book to light. --The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Art and Engagement presents a forceful argument for the originality and power of aesthetic perception. Demolishing the conceptual barriers erected by limiting Western traditions, the book discloses the condition of engagement involved in our most effective aesthetic encounters and suggests a new direction for aesthetic inquiry. --American Society for Aesthetics Newsletter [Berleant] brings his full repertoire of knowledge to bear on this most interesting of problems: just how, precisely, do we derive aesthetic reaction from confrontation with a work of art? ...This is a closely studied argument beginning with theoretical studies into the idea of 'engagement'...appropriate for those interested in its application to aesthetic inquiry. --Art Times

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Arnold Berleant is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Long Island University and the author of Aesthetics of Environment (Temple).

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