Frontmatter -- General Table of Contents -- Table of contents: Volume I -- Preface -- Foreword -- 1. Anthropological and historical sciences -- Chapter I. Social and cultural anthropology -- Chapter II. Archaeology and prehistory -- Chapter III. History -- 2. Aesthetics and the sciences of art -- Foreword -- Chapter IV. Art and the science of art today -- SECTION ONE: THE SITUATION AND MEANING OF ART TODAY -- A. In the Western countries -- B. In the Socialist countries -- C. In the non-Western countries -- SECTION TWO: THE PHILOSOPHICAL SCENE -- SECTION THREE: THE SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES -- 1. The historical approach -- 2. The comparative approach -- 3. The sociological approach -- 4. The experimental approach -- 5. The psychological approach -- 6. The psychoanalytical approach -- 7. The anthropological approach -- 8. The semiotic approach -- 9. The informational approach -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter V. Contemporary study of the principal problems in aesthetics and the various arts -- Introduction -- SECTION ONE: THE STUDY OF GENERAL PROBLEMS -- A. Artistic creation -- B. Reception of the work of art -- C. Problems of aesthetic values -- SECTION TWO: THE STUDY OF THE VARIOUS ARTS -- Introduction -- I. Visual arts -- II. Literature -- III. Music -- IV. The dramatic arts -- V. The art of cinema -- VI. Architecture and town-planning -- VII . The arts of information and the mass media -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ANNEX