The purpose of the monograph is to identify instructional practices in art criticism that are based upon historical developments in aesthetics. Part 1 presents a history of the transformation of the aesthetics into the three areas of art doctrine, art history, and art criticism. Part 2 provides an overview of major developments in the history and theory of art criticism from antiquity through modern aesthetics. Part 3 presents major aesthetic schemes and criticism models in contemporary art education. Four criticism models encompass many of the historical approaches to art criticism and are transferable into teaching materials: (1) mechanistic criticism; (2) formistic criticism; (3) contextualistic criticism; and (4) organismic criticism. The basis of four aesthetic schemes in contemporary art education provides further information: (1) aesthetic responding schemes; (2) analytic schemes; (3) interpretive schemes; and unifying schemes. Part 4 presents sample units of subject-centered