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How long does it take to read Aesthetics?

Susan L. Feagin, Patrick Maynard

Aesthetics by Susan L. Feagin, Patrick Maynard takes about 7 hours 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 7 hours 40 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1997. 418 pages, about 114,950 words.

16 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 12 hours 46 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 7 hours 40 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 47 minutes

The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Can we ever claim to understand a work of art or be objective about it? Why have cultures thought it important to separate out a group of objects and call them art? What does aesthetics contribute to our understanding of the natural landscape? Are the concepts of art and the aesthetic elitist? Addressing these and other issues in aesthetics, this important new Oxford Reader includes articles by authors ranging from Aristotle and Xie-He to Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Michael Baxandall, and Susan Sontag. It focuses on why art and a variety of aesthetics matter to us, and on how perceivers participate in and contribute to the experience of appreciating a work of art. With its multicultural and multidisciplinary scope, this volume shows how anthropology, art history, Chinese theories of painting, and other perspectives both enrich and provide alternatives to classic philosophical accounts of art and the aesthetic.

Subjects: Esthetica, Aesthetics, Physicians, Medical Societies, History, General Surgery

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