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- A Mathematician's Apology - A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful - Abhinavagupta - Aesthetic atrophy - Aesthetic emotions - Aesthetic interpretation - Aesthetic Realism - Aesthetic realism (metaphysics) - Aesthetic relativism - Aestheticism - Aestheticization of politics - Aesthetics - Aesthetics of music - Affect (philosophy) - Albert Hofstadter ...
These ideas were imported to the English-speaking world largely through the efforts of Thomas Carlyle, whose Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825), Critical and Miscellaneous Essays and Sartor Resartus (1833–1834) introduced and advocated aestheticism while also, if not marking the earliest use of the word "aesthetic" in the English language ...
Aesthetics – branch of philosophy and axiology concerned with the nature of beauty. What type of thing is an aesthetic? Aesthetics can be described as all of the ...
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Aesthetics examines the philosophy of aesthetic value, which is determined by critical judgments of artistic taste; [2] thus, the function of aesthetics is the "critical reflection on art, culture and nature". [3] [4] Aesthetics studies natural and artificial sources of experiences and how people form a judgment about those sources of experience.
This pluralistic and diverse aesthetic reality has typically been created within different architectural and industrial design movements such as: Modernism, Postmodernism, Deconstructivism, Post-structuralism, Neoclassicism, New Expressionism, Supermodernism, etc. [2] [3] [4] All of these aesthetic realities represent a number of divergent ...
For Bellori, under the influence of the Neoplatonic aesthetic of Plotinus, the 'highest and eternal intellect' had fashioned the supreme archetypes of multifarious nature, the 'Ideas', out of his own being, as the 'perfection of natural beauty', and the artists of antiquity had looked beyond nature to the superior 'Idea' itself.
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