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Thomas Munro (15 February 1897 in Omaha, Nebraska – April 14, 1974 in Sarasota, Florida[1]) was an American philosopher of art and professor of art history at Western Reserve University. He served as Curator of Education for the Cleveland Museum of Art for 36 years (1931–67).

He was educated at Amherst College (B.A. 1916) and Columbia University (M.A. 1917), where he was influenced by philosopher and educator John Dewey. Munro served as a sergeant with the psychological services of the Army Medical Corps before returning to Columbia to get his Ph.D.

Notable roles

• Visiting professor of modern art at the University of Pennsylvania (1924–27)
• Member of the philosophy faculty at Rutgers University (1928–31)
• Founder in 1942 of the American Society for Aesthetics
• Editor (1945–64) of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

Publications

• (1928) The Scientific Method in Aesthetics. PDF at Internet Archive
• (1941) Knowledge and Control in the Field of Aesthetics, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Vol. 1, No. 1
• (1949) The Arts and Their Interrelations At Internet Archive
• (1956) Art education, its philosophy and psychology: selected essays New York: Liberal Arts Press. At Internet Archive.
• (1963) Evolution in the Arts, and Other Theories of Culture History
• (1960) The Creative Arts in American Education: The Interrelation of the Arts in Secondary Education Harvard University Press
• (1965) Oriental Aesthetics
• (1969) Art and Violence Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

References

External links

• Cleveland Art Prize

На других языках

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- [en] Thomas Munro (art historian)

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[ru] Манро, Томас (эстетик)

Томас Манро (англ. Thomas Munro; 1897, Омаха, Небраска, США — 14 апреля 1974 Сарасота, Флорида, США) — американский эстетик, представитель неопозитивизма, профессор истории искусства в Университете Кейс Вестерн Резерв. Служил в качестве куратора образования в Кливлендском музее искусств с 1931 по 1967. Получил степень бакалавра в Амхерстском колледже (1916) и степень магистра в Колумбийском университете. Манро служил в качестве сержанта в психологической службе медицинского корпуса армии, прежде чем вернулся в Колумбию (Южная Каролина) для получения степени доктора философии.

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