Concerning Beauty, by Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Download a PDF Sample (1 MB)"With running comments, often caustic and sometimes witty, on such abstract schematizations [mentioned previously] interpolated among his own personal observations covering some forty years of study and appreciation of art and nature, Professor Mather comes to the conclusion in this book that most theories of esthetics are so much moonshine and worthless to aid any one in experiencing beauty. Only direct personal experience of concrete works of art or forms in nature, he says in effect, can awaken the spectator to a genuine esthetic pleasure... Professor Mather's cogent and mature observations 'Concerning Beauty' are well worth the serious attention of the reader." —The New York Times, 1935
Mather is the namesake of the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism. Awarded annually by the College Art Association, it remains one of the most important honors for writings in visual art.
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