ABSTRACT
Some philosophers pointed to the study of ‘beauty’ as the proper subject of aesthetics. Some others declared that the only occupation fit for aesthetics is the study of ‘art’; that is, the study of the existant body of works of art, and the study of the tributary disciplines, such as the histories of art and literature and the various theories of art and literature. For the theory of beauty assumes that the fundamental datum of aesthetics is the existence of beauty. Its first task is therefore to define and describe the nature of beauty in terms as precise as possible, or, in other words, to construct a model of beauty. The philosophy of art, on the other hand, assumes that the fundamental datum of aesthetics is the existence of the creative urge in men, which, emancipated by degrees from its primary practical purposes, assumes the form of artistic creation.
