Outline of aesthetics
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to aesthetics:
Aesthetics – branch of philosophy and axiology concerned with the nature of beauty.
What type of thing is an aesthetic?
[edit]Aesthetics can be described as all of the following:[1]
- Branch of philosophy –
- the philosophical study of beauty
- the sublime
- Aesthetic judgments
- Aesthetic taste
- the philosophy of art
- Definitions of art
- Value of art
- Attitudes toward art
- the philosophical study of beauty
Related academic areas
[edit]- Applied aesthetics
- Architecture
- Art
- Arts criticism
- Gastronomy
- Aesthetics of nature
- History of painting
- Painting
- Philosophy of film
- Aesthetic medicine
- Aesthetics of music
- Philosophy of music
- Theory of painting
- Poetry
- Psychological aesthetics
- Aesthetics of science
- Sculpture
- Theological aesthetics
History of aesthetics
[edit]Aesthetics and art movements
[edit]Aesthetics by time and location
[edit]- African aesthetic
- Ancient aesthetics
- Indian aesthetics
- Internet aesthetic
- Japanese aesthetics
- Medieval aesthetics
Concepts in aesthetics
[edit]- Aesthetic emotions
- Art manifesto
- Art object
- Avant-garde
- Beauty
- Boring
- Camp
- Comedy
- Cool
- Creativity
- Cute
- Disgusting
- Ecstasy
- Elegance
- Entertainment
- Ephemerality
- Eroticism
- Fun
- Gaze
- Harmony
- Hauntology
- Humour
- Interpretation
- Judgement
- Kitsch
- Literary merit
- Lo-fi
- Mathematics and art
- Mathematical beauty
- Perception
- Picturesque
- Pretentious
- Rasa
- Style
- Sublime
- Taste
- Tragedy
Philosophers of art and aestheticians
[edit]Ancient
[edit]Pre-20th Century
[edit]- Francis Hutcheson
- David Hume
- Adam Smith
- Immanuel Kant
- Edmund Burke
- Johann Gottfried Herder
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Friedrich Schiller
- G. W. F. Hegel
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Contemporary
[edit]- Theodor W. Adorno
- Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
- Clive Bell
- Walter Benjamin
- Bernard Bosanquet
- Edward Bullough
- R. G. Collingwood
- Arthur Danto
- John Dewey
- George Dickie
- Hubert Dreyfus
- Curt John Ducasse
- Thierry de Duve
- Roger Fry
- Nelson Goodman
- Martin Heidegger
- Paul Klee
- Susanne Langer
- Theodor Lipps
- György Lukács
- Jean-François Lyotard
- Joseph Margolis
- Jacques Maritain
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Thomas Munro
- José Ortega y Gasset
- Dewitt H. Parker
- Stephen Pepper
- David Prall
- I. A. Richards
- George Santayana
- Irving Singer
- Richard Wollheim
- more ...
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ "Aesthetics". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
External links
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Aesthetics at Wikipedia's sister projects
Definitions from Wiktionary
Media from Commons
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Quotations from Wikiquote
Texts from Wikisource
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Resources from Wikiversity
- Outline of aesthetics at the Indiana Philosophy Ontology Project
- Outline of aesthetics at PhilPapers
- "Outline of aesthetics". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- Medieval Theories of Aesthetics article in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Revue online Appareil
- Postscript 1980- Some Old Problems in New Perspectives
- Aesthetics in Art Education: A Look Toward Implementation
- More about Art, culture and Education
- 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