AbstractsPhilosophy & Theology

An Evaluation of the Esthetic Judgment of Students in Austin College

by Helen Miller




Institution: North Texas State College
Department:
Year: 1950
Keywords: esthetic judgment; students; Aesthetics.; Austin College (Sherman, Tex.)  – Students.
Record ID: 1515033
Full text PDF: http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83749/


Abstract

For the average person many opportunities for esthetic enjoyment of useful objects exist if the relationship between beauty and utility is understood. Furniture and other articles of daily use have acquired new and radical changes of design, based on function, which are altering esthetic concepts. This new approach to design is gradually being accepted by manufacturers and producers. Do purchasers appreciate and accept these structural and functional bases of contemporary design? If they do not, wherein does their deficiency lie, and how may it be corrected? This is the problem that the writer has attempted to investigate through this study.