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The Sense of Beauty is a book on aesthetics by the philosopher George Santayana. [1] The book was published in 1896 by Charles Scribner's Sons, and is based on the lectures Santayana gave on aesthetics while teaching at Harvard University. [2] Santayana published the book out of necessity, for tenure, rather than inspiration.
His novel Beauty Is a Wound was included in the list of 100 notable books by The New York Times. [4] The use of magic realism in the book has led to comparisons to Gabriel García Márquez . Kurniawan has insisted that Beauty Is a Wound is neither a historical novel nor a book about Indonesian history.
True Beauty is a television series in which contestants are competing to see who is the most beautiful. However, they think they are only being tested on outer beauty . The show is hosted by three judges, who judge the contestants on their inner beauty , in addition to their appearance.
"Negative capability" is the capacity of artists to pursue ideals of beauty, perfection and sublimity even when it leads them into intellectual confusion and uncertainty, as opposed to a preference for philosophical certainty over artistic beauty. The term, first used by John Keats in 1817, has been subsequently used by poets, philosophers and literary theorists to describe the ability to ...
The challenge to the assumption that beauty was central to art and aesthetics, thought to be original, is actually continuous with older aesthetic theory; Aristotle was the first in the Western tradition to classify "beauty" into types as in his theory of drama, and Kant made a distinction between beauty and the sublime.
Beauty is commonly described as a feature of objects that makes them pleasurable to perceive. Such objects include landscapes, sunsets, humans and works of art ...
The term beauty pageant refers originally to the Big Four beauty pageants: Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth. [1] [2] [3] Hundreds and thousands of beauty contests are held annually, [4] but the Big Four are considered the most prestigious, [5] and are widely covered and broadcast by news media.