Download or read book Aesthetics Beyond the Arts written by Arnold Berleant and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume exhibit many sides of the perceptual complex that is the aesthetic field and develop them in different ways. They reinvigorate our understanding of such arts as music and architecture; they range across the natural landscape to the urban one; they reassess the place of beauty in the modern environment and reassess the significance of the contributions to aesthetic theory of Kant and Dewey; and they broach the kinds of meanings and larger understanding that aesthetic engagement with the human environment can offer.