In our dynamic age, the advance of science is indeed rapid. Life itself urges scholars to look into new problems, suggests new themes and necessitates new approaches and methods of research, Aesthetics is no exception.

The book is addressed to a thinking interested and creative audience. Readers with no previous knowledge of the subject may find it difficult in places. But any science at the modern stage of its development is not easy to master.

If this book brings back to the reader his encounters with art, and if art and the beauty of life make him think about this book, the author will know his work has not been in vain.