Intro -- CONTENTS -- Prologue: Light and Shadows -- PART I: AESTHETICS, NATURE, AND CULTURE -- Chapter 1. The Aesthetic in Life and Culture -- 2. The Development of the Aesthetic Impulse -- PART II: SENSORY DELIGHTS -- 3. Pleasures of the Proximate Senses -- 4. Voices, Sounds, and Heavenly Music -- 5. Visual Delight and Splendor -- PART III: A CULTURAL-AESTHETIC SPECTRUM -- 6. Australian Aborigines, the Chinese, and Medieval Europeans -- 7. American Place and Scene -- PART IV: SYNTHESIS OF SPACE AND THE STATE -- 8. Synesthesia, Metaphor, and Symbolic Space -- 9. Ritual and the Aesthetic-Moral State -- The Chinese Aesthetic-Moral State: T'ang Empire -- Renaissance Venice as an Aesthetic-Moral State -- France: The Sun King's Aesthetic-Moral State -- America the Beautiful and the Moral -- PART V: AESTHETICS AND MORALITY -- 10. Good and Beautiful -- Epilogue: Shadows and Light -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index. |