Outline of aesthetics
Overview of and topical guide to aesthetics
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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.
Description of aesthetics
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
History of aesthetics
Aesthetics and art movements
Aesthetics by time and location
Concepts in aesthetics
- 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
Ancient
Pre-20th Century
Contemporary
- 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
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