Arts and the Man : A short introduction to aesthetics by Edman, Irwin - 1939

New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1939. Revised Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of the revised and enlarged edition previously published in 1928 unter the title "The World, The Arts and the Artist." Pp 154. 8.25" x 5" . Original dust jacket with heavily toned spine strip, chips and short tears; not price clipped. Irwin Edman (1896 – 1954) was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy. "If the essay can be called an art form, Arts and the Man is certainly in a healthy state, for it fuses effectively the instrumental and the beautiful. It is a useful instrument, an introduction to art and philosophy that sends the reader to art itself, and it is written with a quiet lucidity and sincere love of beauty that give it the repose and balance and some of the perspective and refreshing quality of art itself." - Mildred Boie, Forum ; 8vo .