Books Edited by Murray Krieger, The Problems of Aesthetics

Edited (with Eliseo Vivas.) The Problems of Aesthetics: A Book of Readings. New York: Rinehart, 1953.

Contents:

• Preface:vi-vii.
  Section One: The Discipline of Aesthetics
  
• The Editors: "The Nature, the Teaching, and the Problems of Aesthetics":1-19.
• Louis Arnauld Reid: "Artists, Critics, and Philosophers":19-30.
• Douglas N. Morgan: "Psychology and Art Today: A Summary and Critique":30-47.
  Section Two: The Editors' Preface: "The Nature of Art":48-50.
  
• Jacques Maritain: "A Definition of Art":51-69.
• Benedetto Croce: "Art as Intuition":69-90.
• DeWitt H. Parker: "The Nature of Art":90-105.
• Charles W. Morris: "Science, Art and Technology":105-115.
  Section Three: The Editors' Preface: "The Creative Act":116-118.
  
• Henry James: "The 'Germ' of a Story:118-123.
• T.E. Hulme: "Bergson's Theory of Art":125-138.
• S. Alexander: "The Creative Process in the Artist's Mind":139-153.
• Sigmund Freud: "The Relation of the Poet to Day-Dreaming":153-160.
• Sigmund Freud: "Neurotic and Artist":161-162.
• Carl G. Jung: "On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetic Art":162-179.
  Section Four: The Editors' Preface: "The Aesthetic Object":180-182.
  Generic Traits
  
• D.W. Prall: "The Elements of Aesthetic Surface in General":182-193.
• D.W. Gotshalk: "Form":194-208.
• Clive Bell: "The Aesthetic Hypothesis":208-211.
• Arnold Isenberg: "Perception, Meaning, and the Subject-Matter of Art":211-225.
• Benbow Ritchie: "The Formal Structure of the Aesthetic Object":225-233.
• Isabel Creed Hungerland: "Iconic Signs and Expressiveness":234-239.
  Various Arts
  
• René Wellek and Austin Warren: "The Analysis of the Literary Work of Art":239-255.
• Henri-Matisse: "Notes of a Painter":255-261.
• W.H. Hadow: "Outlines of Musical Form":262-276.
  Section Five: The Editors' Preface: "The Aesthetic Experience":277-279.
  Varieties of Aesthetic Experience
  
• Henri Delacroix: "Varieties of Aesthetic Experience":279-285.
• Albert R. Chandler: "Types of Response to Color":285-290.
• Albert R. Chandler: "Types of Listeners":290-296.
• Vernon Lee: "Varieties of Musical Experience":296-304.
  Interpretations of Aesthetic Experience
  As Pleasure
  
• Henry Rutgers Marshall: "The Aesthetic Experience as Pleasure":304-314.
  As Empathy
  
• Herbert Sidney Langfeld: "Empathy":315-325.
  As Experience
  
• John Dewey: "Having an Experience":325-343.
  As Emotion
  
• R.G. Collingwood: "The Expression of Emotion":343-358.
  Receptivity to Feeling
  
• Curt John Ducasse: "The Aesthetic Attitude":358-368.
• Curt John Ducasse: "The Aesthetic Feelings":368-376.
  Controlled Emotion
  
• Stephen C. Pepper: "Emotion":376-386.
  As Organization of Impulses
  
• I.A. Richards: "The Aesthetic Response as Organization of Attitudes":386-395.
  As Distance
  
• Edward Bullough: "Psychical Distance as a Factor in Art and an Aesthetic Principle":396-405.
  As Intranstive Attention
  
• Eliseo Vivas: "A Definition of the Esthetic Experience":406-411.
  Section Six: The Editors' Preface: "The Aesthetic Judgment":412-413.
  The Function of Criticism
  
• Theodore Meyer Greene: "The Three Aspects of Criticism":414-418.
• R.P. Blackmur: "A Burden for Critics":418-430.
  The Validity of the Aesthetic Judgment
  
• George Boas: "The Authority of Criticism":430-436.
• Bernard C. Heyl: "Relativism Again":436-445.
• Arthur Child: "The Social-Historical Realtivity of Esthetic Value":445-462.
• C.E.M. Joad: "The Objectivity of Beauty":463-479. Section Seven: The Editors' Preface: "The Functions of Art":480-483.
  Art and Religion
  
• Leo Tolstoy: "The Religious Function of Art":483-498.
  Art and Society
  
• Nikolai Bukharin: "Poetry and Society":498-514.
• George Santayana: "Justification of Art":514-526.
• George Santayana: "Art and Happiness":526-530.
  Art and Morality
  
• W.K. Wimsatt, Jr.: "Poetry and Morals: A Relation Reargued":530-545.
• Sidney Zink: "The Moral Effect of Art":545-561.
  Art as Autonomous
  
• A.C. Bradley: "Poetry for Poetry's Sake':562-577.
• Clive Bell: "Art and Ethics": 578-583.
  Art and Truth
  
• I.A. Richards: "Poetry and Beliefs":583-589.
• Morris Weitz: "Art, Language and Truth":590-604.
• Dorothy Walsh: "The Cognitive Content of Art":604-618.
• Philip Leon: "Aesthetic Knowledge":619-625.