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    A Study of Space Arts in Relationship to Appreciation
    (University of Oregon, 1936-09) Grossman, Catherine
    Several fields of cultural endeavor have sought to explain the appreciative experience with reference to the various concepts characterizing it in each field. Philosophers have thought to explain the appreciative theory in terms of a single element. Psychologists have been concerned with the empirical and objective elements of the appreciative experience as they relate to the abilities and capacities of individual appreciators. Educators have considered the appreciation of art with reference to the part it plays in establishing desirable social attitudes and enabling evaluations of aesthetic values. Artists have centered their attention upon the aesthetic and functional elements of those materials which are the common substance of the arts. The concept of these thinkers with reference to art appreciation have been sought in effort to clarify the problem period emergent from the consideration given to the appreciation of art on the part of these thinkers are those concerns which sent her about the nature of the appreciative problem with respect to the social and individual personality factors characterizing it. Because of the existing confusion regarding the nature of these factors, this study was undertaken as an attempt to determine the elements which characterize the appreciative experiences of a selected group of students with reference to certain art forms. From such an analysis it was hoped to learn more about the appreciation of space art insofar as it is dependent upon perception and to gain insight into the nature and source of such perception. The entire study considers the appreciation of space art in regard to its worth as a factor of social advancement.