Art and the creation of beauty -- Art the language of feeling. veron and tolstoi -- Criticism of crose's "Aesthetic" -- Art and the freudian wish -- Art as imitation; and as means of attraction -- Instrumentalist theory of art -- Play theory of art -- What is art? the answer proposed -- Aesthetic attitude -- Empathic and peripathic perception -- Ecpathy, objectification, and the aesthetic object -- Aesthetic feelings -- Aesthetic objects. From and content in designs and in dramatic entities -- Aesthetic values Standards of criticism