In this extensively revised and updated edition, 168 alphabeticallyarranged articles provide comprehensive treatment of the maintopics and writers in this area of aesthetics.Written by prominent scholars covering a wide-range of keytopics in aesthetics and the philosophy of artFeatures revised and expanded entries from the first edition,as well as new chapters on recent developments in aesthetics and alarger number of essays on non-Western thought about artUnique to this edition are six overview essays on the historyof aesthetics in the West from antiquity to modern times