Collects Frank Sibley's major papers on philosophical aesthetics. This work is concerned with a group of related topics: the nature of aesthetic qualities and their relation to non-aesthetic qualities, the relation of aesthetic description to aesthetic evaluation, the different levels of evaluation, and, the objectivity of aesthetic judgement.

Frank Sibley (1923-1996) was one of the most important philosophers of aesthetics of the last fifty years, whose published papers are required reading for serious students of the subject. Approach to Aesthetics will be welcomed both for bringing together these well known papers, and for its inclusion of new, previously unpublished papers. This timeless body of work will continue to demand and reward the attention of scholars and students.

The book facilitates a survey of Sibley's contribution to aesthetics, and confirms his place as one of the outstanding thinkers of his generation.