This anthology [includes the editors'] essays [which] were translated especially for this volume, [and] also for the editors' general introduction and the introductory essays for each selection.... This volume [is] an aid to the study of the powerful, recurrent ideas concerning art, beauty, critical method, and the nature of representation.... This collection makes clear the ways in which the philosophy of art relates to and is part of general philosophical positions. It [is a] sourcebook to students of philosophy, art history, and literary criticism.