MUNRO, Thomas

An encyclopedic art historian, Munro championed as early as 1928 Scientific Method in Esthetics, which he defined as broadly experimental and empirical, but not limited to quantitative measurement; utilizing the insights of art criticism and philosophy as hypotheses, but deriving objective data from two main sources—the analysis and history of form in the arts, and psychological studies of the production, appreciation, and teaching of the arts. However, to establish the preconditions for such an...