Aesthetic Experience
An aesthetic experience arises in response to works of art or other aesthetic objects. Although the term aesthetic itself was not introduced until the eighteenth century, it is cl...
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Aesthetic Judgment
In recent analytic aesthetics, there have been two prominent questions about aesthetic judgments. One is how to distinguish aesthetic judgments from other judgments. Answering this ...
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Aesthetic Qualities
It is generally, although not universally, agreed among philosophers that there is an important distinction to be drawn between the aesthetic qualities of objects, especially art o...
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Aesthetics
The Encyclopedia features two very detailed survey entries, Aesthetics, History of, and Aesthetics, Problems of, as well as the following entries: Beauty; Humor; Metaphor; Tragedy; and Ugli...
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Aesthetics, History of [addendum]
Twentieth-Century Aesthetics
Aesthetics continued to be intensively cultivated in all the main schools of twentieth-century philosophy. The following survey emphasize...
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Aesthetics, History Of
In the West, the history of systematic philosophizing about the arts begins with Plato. But his great achievement was preceded, and prepared for, by certain developments in the ...
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Aesthetics, Problems Of
The philosophical discipline of aesthetics deals with conceptual problems arising out of the critical examination of art and the aesthetic. Monroe Beardsley subtitled his 1958 ...
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Art, Expression In
Art is an expressive business, few would deny, but this assertion has meant quite different things to the large number of thinkers who have contemplated the concept of aesthetic exp...
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Traditional aesthetic restorative composites have to be applied in different colour shades (e.g. dentin and enamel colour) to obtain a natural looking result. With Clearfil Majesty Esthetic this is...
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Whose idea was it to host concurrent retrospectives of Romare Bearden and Isamu Noguchi at the Whitney Museum of American Art? It was a brilliant stroke, really. Noguchi's streamlined, abstract scu...
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The exhibition called Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-Based Art, organized by Marc Glimcher for the PaceWildenstein Galleries, has come and gone, but it has left in its wake an encyclopedic c...
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Abstract painters like to bitch and moan about their lot in life. Abstract art, they complain, was once the standard-bearer of high culture, but now it’s just another item on display in the d...
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Raising the Bar is the title of a show at Sideshow Gallery in Williamsburg, and it's been irking me to no end. What on earth can it mean? I know it's a sports analogy-something about setting new st...
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Upon entering The Drawing Impulse in American Art: 1900-1950, an exhibition of works on paper at the Hirschl and Adler Galleries, I was quick to dismiss it as pro forma and predictable, the result ...
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Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name, by Vendela Vida. Ecco, 226 pages, $23.95.
The impulse to lump these two novels together is understandable, since Heidi Julavits and Vendela Vida are co-fo...
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The signs are there. Maybe it's too early, but I'd suggest we're on the verge of a new aesthetic dispensation, a tendency I'd call "The Return of the Singular." That's what I'm calling it, anyway. ...
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