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  2. Aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    At issue was the question of whether the aesthetic intentions of the artist in creating the work of art, whatever its specific form, should be associated with the criticism and evaluation of the final product of the work of art, or, if the work of art should be evaluated on its own merits independent of the intentions of the artist.

  3. Aestheticism - Wikipedia

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    Writers of the Decadent movement used the slogan "Art for Art's Sake" (L'art pour l'art), the origin of which is debated. Some claim that it was created by the philosopher Victor Cousin, although Angela Leighton notes that it was used by Benjamin Constant as early as 1804 in the work On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism and the Legacy of a Word (2007 ...

  4. Aesthetics of nature - Wikipedia

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    In fact, an art object should be called an artifact. [5] The crane is wildlife on its own and is not an art object. This can be related to Saito's definition of the cognitive view. In elaboration, the crane lives through various ecosystems such as Yellowstone. Nature is a living system which includes animals, plants, and Eco-systems.

  5. Outline of aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    An history of aesthetics; The Concept of the Aesthetic; Aesthetics entry in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy; Philosophy of Aesthetics entry in the Philosophy Archive; Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges: Introduction to Aesthetics; Art Perception Complete pdf version of art historian David Cycleback's

  6. Ancient aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    Aesthetics can also be used as a synonym to define taste or style [3] encapsulating artistic expression and activities such as rhetoric, tone, harmony, painting, composition art and music. [4] Aesthetics also encapsulates the look, feel, or sound of natural forms. [4] Aesthetics also encompasses the science of how an individual or a society ...

  7. Art as Experience - Wikipedia

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    There is no one word to combine "artistic" and "aesthetic," unfortunately, but "artistic" refers to the production, the doing and making, and "aesthetic" to appreciating, perceiving, and enjoying. For a work to be art, it must also be aesthetic. The work of the artist is to build an experience that will be experienced aesthetically.

  8. Wabi-sabi - Wikipedia

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    The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of appreciating beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete" in nature. [3] It is prevalent in many forms of Japanese art. [4] [5] Wabi-sabi is a composite of two interrelated aesthetic concepts, wabi and sabi .

  9. History of aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    In France aesthetic speculation grew out of the discussion by poets and critics on the relation of modern art; and Boileau in the 17th century, the development of the dispute between the "ancients" and the "moderns" at the end of the 17th century by B. le Bouvier de Fontenelle and Charles Perrault, and the continuation of the discussion as to ...