Author of the book, laureate of the USSR State Prize, People's Artist of the RSFSR, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences B. M. Nemensky raises important, sometimes controversial issues of aesthetic education in a modern comprehensive school. Emphasizing the need for a wide introduction of art into school practice, B. M. Nemensky rightly sees this as one of the main ways to form the spiritual culture of the younger generation, its active civic position.