Alongside "Living Powers" and "A is for Aesthetic" this book is intended to establish a conceptual frame for the Arts in Education series. The first and primary aim of this symposium is to put teachers of all the arts in touch with some of the most recent and the best writing on the nature of art.

Part 1 The renewal of aesthetics: modern philosophy and the neglect of aesthetics, Roger Scruton; the aesthetic in education, Louis Arnaud Reid. Part 2 Art as the pursuit of truth: the culture of links, Peter Brook; art, judgement and belief - towards the condition of music, Michael Tippett. Part 3 The primacy of feeling: the education of feeling, Rex Gibson; literature and the education of feeling, L.C.Knights; feeling and reason in the arts - the rationality of feeling, David Best. Part 4 The demise of Modernism: the father of art history, Ernst Gombrich; the domestication of outrage, Denis Donoghue; approaching the end of art, Arthur Danto; aesthetics after modernism, Peter Fuller. Part 5 Art and tradition: the arts in education, G.R.Bantock. Part 6 The recognition of myth: myth and education, Ted Hughes; myth and identity, Jerome Bruner. Part 7 Art and the creative process: individuation and the creative process, Anthony Storr; the pattern of art-making, Peter Abbs. Part 8 The teaching of the arts: art worlds in schools, Maxine Greene; teaching poetry, George Whalley; purpose in music education, Keith Swanwick and Dorothy Taylor. Part 9 Art and the community: the arts, education and the community, David Aspin. Part 10 Art as affirmation: real presences, George Steiner.