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Parsons, Michael J. – Journal of Aesthetic Education, 1980
This paper recounts the ideas of the American cognitive-developmental psychologist James Mark Baldwin (1861-1934) on aesthetic experience: his conceptualization of aesthetic experience as immediate, semblant, personalized, and idealized; and his three-stage theory of aesthetic development. (SJL)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Appreciation, Developmental Stages, Intellectual Experience