Arnold Berleant
Art and Engagement (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 19910
ISBN 0-87722-797-7

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A bold alternative to the eighteenth century aesthetic of disinterestedness, aesthetic engagement makes the appreciative experience of both the traditional and contemporary arts more intelligible. After considering the historical and theoretical underpinnings of the idea of engagement, successive chapters demonstraste its importance in landscape painting, architecture and environmental design, literature, music, dance, and film. Emerging from these original studies of the arts is the recognition that the different arts involve experiences that possess their own claim to reality.

Table of Contents

PART ONE. AESTHETICS AND EXPERIENCE
    Chapter One. Experience and Theory in Aesthetics
    Chapter Two. The Unity of Aesthetic Experience

PART TWO. ENGAGEMENT AND THE ARTS
   Chapter Three. The Viewer in the Landscape
   Chapter Four. Architecture as Environmental Design
   Chapter Five. The Reader's Word
   Chapter Six. Musical Generation
   Chapter Seven. Dance as Performance

PART THREE. ART AND REALITY
   Chapter Eight. Film and Other Realities of Art - I
   Chapter Nine. Film and Other Realities of Art - II
   Chapter Ten. Conclusion: The End of Aesthetics