What Art Is Online

Supplement to What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand (Open Court, 2000)
by Louis Torres & Michelle Marder Kamhi

Chapter 1 - "The Psycho-Epistemology of Art"

This excerpt, on the amazon.com page for What Art Is, comprises the opening pages of the chapter--which deals with the first of Rand's four essays on the nature of art. It includes the sections entitled "The Purpose of Art," "Metaphysical Value-Judgments," "Rand's Definition of Art," "The Cognitive Function of Art," and "The Creative Process."