“For those of us who want to know what philosophers have said about beauty and the arts, this book will be especially useful.”
—Philosophical Review
“Beardsley’s book accomplishes to perfection what the writer intended. It illuminates an area of history from a certain perspective as was never done before. . . . The distinguishing feature of his book is a n excitement over everything I aesthetics that has to do with symbols, meanings, language, and modes of interpretation. And this excitement has brought to light facets of the history of the subject never noticed before, or at least, not so clearly.”
—Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
