"Recent Aesthetics"

Vernon Lee’s essay, "Recent Aesthetics," in The Quarterly Review provides a detailed account of recent developments in psychological aesthetics, including a discussion of Theodor Lipps’s Spatial Aesthetics and Optical Illusion (1897) and his use of the concept of Einfühlung. Image: Photograph of Vernon Lee (Violet Paget), author unknown. This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired.