Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-294) and index.

part PART I The Renewal of Aesthetics -- chapter 1 Aesthetic Education: An Opening Manifesto / Peter Abbs -- chapter 2 The Arts Within a Plural Concept of Knowledge / Louis Arnaud Reid -- chapter 3 Modern Philosophy and the Neglect of Aesthetics / Roger Scruton -- part PART II Art as the Pursuit of Truth -- chapter 4 The Culture of Links / Peter Brook -- chapter 5 Art, Judgment and Belief: Towards the Condition of Music / Michael Tippett -- part PART III The Primacy of Feeling -- chapter 6 The Education of Feeling / Rex Gibson -- chapter 7 Literature and the Education of Feeling / L.C.Knights -- chapter 8 Feeling and Reason in the Arts: The Rationality of Feeling / David Best -- part Part IV The Demise of Modernism -- chapter 9 The Father of Art History : On the Influence of Hegel -- chapter 10 The Domestication of Outrage -- chapter 11 Approaching the End of Art / Arthur Danto -- chapter 12 Aesthetics after Modernism / Peter Fuller -- part PART V Art and Tradition -- chapter 13 The Arts in Education / G.H.Bantock -- part PART VI The Recognition of Myth -- chapter 14 Myth and Education / Ted Hughes -- chapter 15 Myth and Identity / Jerome Bruner -- part PART VII Art and the Creative Process -- chapter 16 Individuation and the Creative Process / Anthony Storr -- chapter 17 The Pattern of Art-Making / Peter Abbs -- part Part VIII The Teaching of the Arts -- chapter 18 Art Worlds in Schools / Maxine Greene -- chapter 19 Teaching Poetry / George Whalley -- chapter 20 Purpose in Music Education -- part PART IX Art and the Community -- chapter 21 The Arts, Education and the Community / David Aspin -- part PART X Art as Affirmation -- chapter 22 Real Presences / George Steiner.