Arguing for the inclusion of programmes in arts appreciation in schools, Miller presents a theory of aesthetic experience and describes the features of a programme in art appreciation which could attain educationally important goals.

Arguing for the inclusion of programmes in arts appreciation in schools, Miller presents a theory of aesthetic experience and describes the features of a programme in art appreciation which would attain educationally important goals. He embraces three fields - formal aesthetics, educational psychology and aesthetic education - to illustrate the way art experience strengthens basic and liberal education. Miller points out that it rehearses learners in the skill of close attending; relates perception to higher mental processes; and through concrete objectrication, projects the connotative half of mental processes. This book assesses art, language and reason as distinct, but interconnected, symbolisms and though it accepts the common view that reason is the highest intellectual operation, it argues that art experience is a preparation for that highest function.

The Experience of Art
What is Art?
Good Art?
Katie and the Arts
Good Art and Bad Art
The Place of Art in the Hierarchy of Learning
The Place of Art in the Life of the Mind
Art in the School
Art in the Classroom.