Many of the answers sought by the contemporary philosophy of art come from questions that artists themselves have raised with their works. And the art audience also offers its own answers. The Contemporary Aesthetics seeks to specify the question that provokes such answers, because in that question the ontology of the work of art that is presupposed is shown.

The present text is designed as a manual. Without stopping beyond the essentials in biographies or considerations of the general philosophy of the aforementioned thinkers, Sixto J. Castro details his developments with regard to questions of Aesthetics and the role that art, beauty and objects exert in his thought. they usually fall in that field of study.

In the first part of this work, the author makes an approximation to some of the fundamental theorists who have shaped the aesthetic discipline, those characters -some known in our field and others not so much- who are of fundamental importance in continental and Anglo-Saxon traditions . In the second part some of the fundamental questions of philosophy of art that are currently being debated are developed. Therefore, in Philosophy of art. The art thought, the reader, more than finding definitive answers, will discover arguments for the debate.