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Aesthetics (/stks/; also spelled sthetics and esthetics also known in Greek as ) is a branch
of philosophy dealing with the nature of art, beauty, and
taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty.[1][2]
It is more scientically dened as the study of sensory or
sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of
sentiment and taste.[3] More broadly, scholars in the eld
dene aesthetics as critical reection on art, culture and
nature.[4][5]
3 Post-renaissance aesthetics
More specic aesthetic theory, often with practical implications, relating to a particular branch of the arts is divided into areas of aesthetics such as art theory, literary
theory, lm theory and music theory. An example from
art theory is aesthetic theory as a set of principles underlying the work of a particular artist or artistic movement:
such as the Cubist aesthetic.[6]
Etymology
For some, aesthetics is considered a synonym for the philosophy of art since Hegel, while others insist that there
is a signicant distinction between these closely related
elds. In practice aesthetic judgement refers to the sensory contemplation or appreciation of an object (not nec- For Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten aesthetics is the sciessarily an art object), while artistic judgement refers to ence of the sense experiences, a younger sister of logic,
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its specic form, should be associated with the criticism
and evaluation of the nal product of the work of art, or,
if the work of art should be evaluated on its own merits
independent of the intentions of the artist.
In 1946, William K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley published a classic and controversial New Critical essay entitled "The Intentional Fallacy", in which they argued
strongly against the relevance of an authors intention, or
intended meaning in the analysis of a literary work. For
Wimsatt and Beardsley, the words on the page were all
that mattered; importation of meanings from outside the
text was considered irrelevant, and potentially distracting.
In another essay, "The Aective Fallacy, which served
as a kind of sister essay to The Intentional Fallacy
Wimsatt and Beardsley also discounted the readers personal/emotional reaction to a literary work as a valid
means of analyzing a text. This fallacy would later be
repudiated by theorists from the reader-response school
of literary theory. Ironically, one of the leading theorists from this school, Stanley Fish, was himself trained example of the Dada aesthetic, Marcel Duchamp's Fountain
1917
by New Critics. Fish criticizes Wimsatt and Beardsley in
[13]
his essay Literature in the Reader (1970).
As summarized by Gaut and Livingston in their essay The Creation of Art": Structuralist and poststructuralists theorists and critics were sharply critical of
many aspects of New Criticism, beginning with the emphasis on aesthetic appreciation and the so-called autonomy of art, but they reiterated the attack on biographical criticismss assumption that the artists activities and
experience were a privileged critical topic.[14] These authors contend that: Anti-intentionalists, such as formalists, hold that the intentions involved in the making of art
are irrelevant or peripheral to correctly interpreting art.
So details of the act of creating a work, though possibly
of interest in themselves, have no bearing on the correct
interpretation of the work.[15]
Gaut and Livingston dene the intentionalists as distinct
from formalists stating that: Intentionalists, unlike formalists, hold that reference to intentions is essential in
xing the correct interpretation of works. They quote
Richard Wollheim as stating that, The task of criticism
is the reconstruction of the creative process, where the
creative process must in turn be thought of as something
not stopping short of, but terminating on, the work of art
itself.[15]
world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.[16][17]
Various attempts have been made to dene Post-modern
aesthetics. 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 rst 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. What was new
was a refusal to credit the higher status of certain types,
where the taxonomy implied a preference for tragedy and
the sublime to comedy and the Rococo.
Croce suggested that expression is central in the way
that beauty was once thought to be central. George Dickie
suggested that the sociological institutions of the art world
were the glue binding art and sensibility into unities.[18]
Marshall McLuhan suggested that art always functions as
a counter-environment designed to make visible what
is usually invisible about a society. Theodor Adorno felt
that aesthetics could not proceed without confronting the
role of the culture industry in the commodication of art
and aesthetic experience. Hal Foster attempted to portray the reaction against beauty and Modernist art in The
Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture. Arthur
Danto has described this reaction as kalliphobia (after the Greek word for beauty, kallos).[19] Andr
Malraux explains that the notion of beauty was connected
to a particular conception of art that arose with the Renaissance and was still dominant in the eighteenth century
(but was supplanted later). The discipline of aesthetics,
which originated in the eighteenth century, mistook this
transient state of aairs for a revelation of the permanent
nature of art.[20] Brian Massumi suggests to reconsider
beauty following the aesthetical thought in the philoso-
Recent aesthetics
inductive approach. The analysis of individual expeIt is not always clear, easy, or relevant to categorize all rience and behavior based on experimental methods is
recent aesthetics into either modern(ist) or post-modern. a central part of experimental aesthetics. In particular, the perception of works of art,[33] music, or modern
Guy Sircello has pioneered eorts in analytic philosophy
items such websites[34] or other IT products[35] is studto develop a rigorous theory of aesthetics, focusing on the
ied. Experimental aesthetics is strongly oriented towards
concepts of beauty,[27] love[28] and sublimity.[29] In conthe natural sciences. Modern approaches mostly come
trast to romantic theorists Sircello argued for the objecfrom the elds of cognitive psychology or neuroscience
tivity of beauty and formulated a theory of love on that
(neuroaesthetics[36] ).
basis.
In the 1970s, Abraham Moles and Frieder Nake were
British philosopher and theorist of conceptual art aesthetamong the rst to analyze links between aesthetics,
ics, Peter Osborne, makes the point that post-conceptual
information processing, and information theory.[37][38]
art aesthetic does not concern a particular type of
contemporary art so much as the historical-ontological In the 1990s, Jrgen Schmidhuber described an
condition for the production of contemporary art in gen- algorithmic theory of beauty which takes the subjectivity
eral ...[30] Osborne noted that contemporary art is 'post- of the observer into account and postulates: among
several observations classied as comparable by a given
conceptual in a public lecture delivered in 2010.
subjective observer, the aesthetically most pleasing
Gary Tedman has put forward a theory of a subjectless
one is the one with the shortest description, given
aesthetics derived from Karl Marxs concept of alienthe observers previous knowledge and his particular
ation, and Louis Althussers anti humanism, using elemethod for encoding the data.[39][40] This is closely
ments of Freuds group psychology, dening a concept of
related to the principles of algorithmic information
the 'aesthetic level of practice'.[31]
theory and minimum description length. One of his
Gregory Loewen has suggested that the subject is key in examples: mathematicians enjoy simple proofs with a
the interaction with the aesthetic object. The work of art short description in their formal language. Another very
serves as a vehicle for the projection of the individuals concrete example describes an aesthetically pleasing
identity into the world of objects, as well as being the ir- human face whose proportions can be described by
ruptive source of much of what is uncanny in modern life. very few bits of information,[41][42] drawing inspiration
As well, art is used to memorialize individuated biogra- from less detailed 15th century proportion studies by
phies in a manner that allows persons to imagine that they Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Drer. Schmidhubers
are part of something greater than themselves.[32]
theory explicitly distinguishes between whats beautiful
As already stated, the relation of Marxist aesthetics to and whats interesting, stating that interestingness corpostmodern aesthetics is still a contentious area of debate. responds to the rst derivative of subjectively perceived
beauty. Here the premise is that any observer continually
tries to improve the predictability and compressibility
of the observations by discovering regularities such as
7 Aesthetics and science
repetitions and symmetries and fractal self-similarity.
Whenever the observers learning process (which may
The eld of experimental aesthetics was founded by be a predictive neural network; see also Neuroesthetics)
Gustav Theodor Fechner in the 19th century. Exper- leads to improved data compression such that the
imental aesthetics is characterized by a subject-based, observation sequence can be described by fewer bits
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than before, the temporary interestingness of the data
corresponds to the number of saved bits. This compression progress is proportional to the observers internal
reward, also called curiosity reward. A reinforcement
learning algorithm is used to maximize future expected
reward by learning to execute action sequences that cause
additional interesting input data with yet unknown but
learnable predictability or regularity. The principles can
be implemented on articial agents which then exhibit a
form of articial curiosity.[43][44][45][46]
10 Evolutionary aesthetics
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11 Applied aesthetics
Main article: Applied aesthetics
As well as being applied to art, aesthetics can also be applied to cultural objects such as crucix or tools. Aesthetic coupling between art-objects and medical topics was made by speakers working for the US Information Agency[59] This coupling was made to reinforce
learning paradigm when English-language speakers
9 Computational inference of aes- the
used translators to address audiences in their own country. These audiences were generally not uent in the
thetics
English language. It can also be used in topics as dimathematics, gastronomy, fashion and website
Since about 2005, computer scientists have attempted to verse as[60][61][62]
design.
develop automated methods to infer aesthetic quality of
images.[52][53][54][55] Typically, these approaches follow
a machine learning approach, where large numbers of
manually rated photographs are used to teach a com- 12 Aesthetic ethics
puter about what visual properties are of relevance to aesthetic quality. The Acquine engine, developed at Penn Aesthetic ethics refers to the idea that human conduct and
State University, rates natural photographs uploaded by behaviour ought to be governed by that which is beautiusers.[56]
ful and attractive. John Dewey[63] has pointed out that the
Notable in this area is Michael Leyton, professor of psychology at Rutgers University. Leyton is the president of
the International Society for Mathematical and Computational Aesthetics and the International Society for Group
unity of aesthetics and ethics is in fact reected in our understanding of behaviour being fair the word having
a double meaning of attractive and morally acceptable.
More recently, James Page[64][65] has suggested that aes-
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thetic ethics might be taken to form a philosophical ratio- education.[68] According to Kant, beauty is subjective and
nale for peace education.
universal; thus certain things are beautiful to everyone.[69]
The contemporary view of beauty is not based on innate
qualities, but rather on cultural specics and individual
interpretations.
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Aesthetic judgment
Judgments of aesthetic value rely on our ability to discriminate at a sensory level. Aesthetics examines our
aective domain response to an object or phenomenon.
Immanuel Kant, writing in 1790, observes of a man If
he says that canary wine is agreeable he is quite content if
someone else corrects his terms and reminds him to say
instead: It is agreeable to me, because Everyone has
his own (sense of) taste". The case of beauty is dierent from mere agreeableness because, If he proclaims
something to be beautiful, then he requires the same liking from others; he then judges not just for himself but
for everyone, and speaks of beauty as if it were a property
of things.
Aesthetic judgments usually go beyond sensory discrimination. For David Hume, delicacy of taste is not merely
the ability to detect all the ingredients in a composition, but also our sensitivity to pains as well as pleasures, which escape the rest of mankind. (Essays Moral
Political and Literary. Indianapolis, Literary Classics 5,
1987.) Thus, the sensory discrimination is linked to capacity for pleasure. For Kant enjoyment is the result
when pleasure arises from sensation, but judging something to be beautiful has a third requirement: sensation
must give rise to pleasure by engaging our capacities of
reective contemplation. Judgments of beauty are sensory, emotional and intellectual all at once.
Likewise, aesthetic judgments may be culturally conditioned to some extent. Victorians in Britain often saw
African sculpture as ugly, but just a few decades later,
Edwardian audiences saw the same sculptures as being
beautiful. Evaluations of beauty may well be linked to
desirability, perhaps even to sexual desirability. Thus,
judgments of aesthetic value can become linked to judgments of economic, political, or moral value.[70] In a current context, one might judge a Lamborghini to be beautiful partly because it is desirable as a status symbol, or
we might judge it to be repulsive partly because it signies for us over-consumption and oends our political or
[71]
Viewer interpretations of beauty possess two concepts moral values.
of value: aesthetics and taste. Aesthetics is the philo- Aesthetic judgments can often be very ne-grained and
sophical notion of beauty. Taste is a result of an educa- internally contradictory. Likewise aesthetic judgments
tion process and awareness of elite cultural values learned seem often to be at least partly intellectual and interprethrough exposure to mass culture. Bourdieu examined tative. It is what a thing means or symbolizes for us that
how the elite in society dene the aesthetic values like is often what we are judging. Modern aestheticians have
taste and how varying levels of exposure to these values asserted that will and desire were almost dormant in aescan result in variations by class, cultural background, and thetic experience, yet preference and choice have seemed
14.3
What is art"?
14.2
Are dierent art forms beautiful, disgusting, or boring in the same way?
14.3
What is art"?
How best to dene the term art is a subject of constant contention; many books and journal articles have
been published arguing over even the basics of what we
mean by the term art.[74] Theodor Adorno claimed
in 1969 It is self-evident that nothing concerning art
is self-evident.[75][76] Artists, philosophers, anthropolo-
Harmony of colors
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orated upon in the twentieth century by the postmodern
philosopher Jean-Franois Lyotard. A further approach,
elaborated by Andr Malraux in works such as The Voices
of Silence, is that art is fundamentally a response to
a metaphysical question ('Art', he writes, 'is an 'antidestiny'). Malraux argues that, while art has sometimes
been oriented towards beauty and the sublime (principally in post-Renaissance European art) these qualities,
as the wider history of art demonstrates, are by no means
essential to it.[79]
Perhaps (as in Kennicks theory) no denition of art is
possible anymore. Perhaps art should be thought of as
a cluster of related concepts in a Wittgensteinian fashion
(as in Weitz or Beuys). Another approach is to say that
art is basically a sociological category, that whatever
art schools and museums and artists dene as art is considered art regardless of formal denitions. This institutional denition of art (see also Institutional Critique)
has been championed by George Dickie. Most people
did not consider the depiction of a store-bought urinal
or Brillo Box to be art until Marcel Duchamp and Andy
Warhol (respectively) placed them in the context of art
(i.e., the art gallery), which then provided the association
of these objects with the associations that dene art.
Proceduralists often suggest that it is the process by which
a work of art is created or viewed that makes it art, not
any inherent feature of an object, or how well received it
is by the institutions of the art world after its introduction
to society at large. If a poet writes down several lines,
intending them as a poem, the very procedure by which
it is written makes it a poem. Whereas if a journalist
writes exactly the same set of words, intending them as
shorthand notes to help him write a longer article later,
these would not be a poem. Leo Tolstoy, on the other
hand, claims in his What is art? (1897) that what decides
whether or not something is art is how it is experienced by
its audience, not by the intention of its creator. Functionalists like Monroe Beardsley argue that whether or not a
piece counts as art depends on what function it plays in a
particular context; the same Greek vase may play a nonartistic function in one context (carrying wine), and an
artistic function in another context (helping us to appreciate the beauty of the human gure). '
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The truth is complex; art is both useless in a functional the works realisation). Moreover, some of Duttons catsense, and also the most important human activity.
egories seem too broad: a physicist might entertain hyAn argument for the value of art, used in the ctional pothetical worlds in his/her imagination in the course of
work The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, proceeds that, formulating a theory. Another problem is that Duttons
if some external force presenting imminent destruction of categories seek to universalise traditional European noEarth asked humanity what its value waswhat should tions of aesthetics and art forgetting that, as Andr Malhumanitys response be? The argument continues that raux and others have pointed out, there have been large
ideas (including the
the only justication humanity could give for its contin- numbers of cultures in which such[89]
idea art itself) were non-existent.
ued existence would be the past creation and continued
creation of things like a Shakespeare play, a Rembrandt
painting or a Bach concerto. The suggestion is that these
are the things of value which dene humanity.[86] What- 16 Criticism
ever one might think of this claim and it does seem to
undervalue the many other achievements of which human
The philosophy of aesthetics as a practice has been critbeings have shown themselves capable, both individually
icized by some sociologists and writers of art and sociand collectively it is true that art appears to possess a
ety. Raymond Williams argues that there is no unique and
special capacity to endure (live on) beyond the moment
or individual aesthetic object which can be extrapolated
of its birth, in many cases for centuries or millennia. This
from the art world, but that there is a continuum of culcapacity of art to endure over time what precisely it is
tural forms and experience of which ordinary speech and
and how it operates has been widely neglected in modexperiences may signal as art. By art we may frame sev[87]
ern aesthetics.
eral artistic works or creations as so though this reference remains within the institution or special event which
creates it and this leaves some works or other possible
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art outside of the frame work, or other interpretations
such as other phenomenon which may not be considered
The philosopher Denis Dutton identied six universal sig- as art.
natures in human aesthetics:[88]
Pierre Bourdieu disagrees with Kants idea of the aesthetic. He argues that Kants aesthetic merely repre1. Expertise or virtuosity. Humans cultivate, recog- sents an experience that is the product of an elevated class
nize, and admire technical artistic skills.
habitus and scholarly leisure as opposed to other possible
and equally valid aesthetic experiences which lay out2. Nonutilitarian pleasure. People enjoy art for arts
side Kants narrow denition.
sake, and don't demand that it keep them warm or
put food on the table.
3. Style. Artistic objects and performances satisfy
rules of composition that place them in a recognizable style.
17 History of aesthetics
Main article: History of aesthetics before the 20th cen4. Criticism. People make a point of judging, appreci- tury
ating, and interpreting works of art.
Any aesthetic doctrines that guided the production and
5. Imitation. With a few important exceptions like abstract painting, works of art simulate experiences of
the world.
6. Special focus. Art is set aside from ordinary life and
made a dramatic focus of experience.
It might be objected, however, that there are rather
too many exceptions to Duttons categories. For example, the installations of the contemporary artist Thomas
Hirschhorn deliberately eschew technical virtuosity. People can appreciate a Renaissance Madonna for aesthetic
reasons, but such objects often had (and sometimes still
have) specic devotional functions. Rules of composition that might be read into Duchamp's Fountain or John
Cage's 433 do not locate the works in a recognizable Bronze sculpture, thought to be either Poseidon or Zeus, National
style (or certainly not a style recognizable at the time of Archaeological Museum of Athens
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HISTORY OF AESTHETICS
17.5
Arab aesthetics
known as the nondual Shaivism of Kashmir (or Kashmir Shaivism) and aesthetician, Abhinavagupta brought
rasa theory to its pinnacle in his separate commentaries
on the Dhvanyloka, the Dhvanyloka-locana (translated
by Ingalls, Masson and Patwardhan, 1992) and the Abhinavabharati, his commentary on the Ntyashstra, portions of which are translated by Gnoli and Masson and
Patwardhan. Abhinavagupta oers for the rst time a
technical denition of rasa which is the universal bliss
of the Self or Atman colored by the emotional tone of
a drama. Shnta-rasa functions as an equal member of
the set of rasas but is simultaneously distinct being the
most clear form of aesthetic bliss. Abhinavagupta likens
it to the string of a jeweled necklace; while it may not
be the most appealing for most people, it is the string
that gives form to the necklace, allowing the jewels of
the other eight rasas to be relished. Relishing the rasas
and particularly shnta-rasa is hinted as being as-goodas but never-equal-to the bliss of Self-realization experienced by yogis.
17.3
Chinese aesthetics
Chinese art has a long history of varied styles and emphases. Confucius emphasized the role of the arts and
humanities (especially music and poetry) in broadening
human nature and aiding li (etiquette, the rites) in bringing us back to what is essential about humanity. His opponent Mozi, however, argued that music and ne arts were
classist and wasteful, beneting the rich over the poor.
By the 4th century AD artists had started debating in writing over the proper goals of art as well. Gu Kaizhi has left
three surviving books on the theory of painting. Several
later artists or scholars both created art and wrote about
the creation of it. Religious and philosophical inuences
on art were common (and diverse) but never universal.
17.4
African aesthetics
The Great Mosque's signature trio of minarets overlooks the central market of Djenn. Unique Malian aesthetic
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African art has existed in many forms and styles, with
relatively little inuence from outside Africa. Most of
it followed traditional forms; the aesthetic norms were
handed down orally as well as textually. Sculpture and
performance art are prominent, and abstract and partially
abstracted forms are valued, and were valued long before
inuence from the Western tradition began in earnest.
The Nok culture is testimony to this. The mosque of
Timbuktu shows that specic areas of Africa developed
unique aesthetics.
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and Augustinian thinkers. With the shift from the Middle [13] Leitch, Vincent B. , et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of
Theory and Criticism. New York: W. W. Norton & ComAges to the Renaissance, art likewise changed its focus,
pany, 2001.
as much in its content as in its mode of expression.
[14] Gaut and Livingston, The Creation of Art, p.3.
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20 Further reading
Mario Perniola, 20th Century Aesthetics. Towards A Theory of Feeling, translated by Massimo
Verdicchio, London-New Delhi-New York-Sydney,
Bloomsbury, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4411-1850-9.
Chung-yuan, Chang (19631970). Creativity and
Taoism, A Study of Chinese Philosophy, Art, and Poetry. New York: Harper Torchbooks. ISBN 0-06131968-6.
Handbook of Phenomenological Aesthetics. Edited
by Hans Rainer Sepp and Lester Embree. (Series: Contributions To Phenomenology, Vol. 59)
Springer, Dordrecht / Heidelberg / London / New
York 2010. ISBN 978-90-481-2470-1
[80] Benjamin, Walter, Understanding Brecht, trans. Anna Bostock, Verso Books, 2003, ISBN 978-1859844182
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Mario Costa (1999) (in Italian), L'estetica dei media. Avanguardie e tecnologia, Milan: Castelvecchi,
ISBN 88-8210-165-7.
Kelly, Michael (Editor in Chief) (1998) Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press. 4 voll., pp. XVII-521, pp. 555, pp.
536, pp. 572; 2224 total pages; 100 b/w photos;
ISBN 978-0-19-511307-5. Covers philosophical,
historical, sociological, and biographical aspects of
Art and Aesthetics worldwide.
Evelyn Hatcher (ed.), Art as Culture: An Introduction to the Anthropology of Art. 1999
Michael Ann Holly and Keith Moxey (eds.), Art History and Visual Studies. Yale University Press, 2002.
ISBN 0-300-09789-1
Carol Armstrong and Catherine de Zegher (eds.),
Women Artists at the Millennium. Massachusetts:
October Books/MIT Press, 2006. ISBN 0-26201226-X
George Santayana (1896), The Sense of Beauty. Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory. New York,
Modern Library, 1955.
Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just. Princeton,
2001. ISBN 978-0-691-08959-1
Friedrich Schiller, (1795), On the Aesthetic Education of Man. Dover Publications, 2004.
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Alan Singer and Allen Dunn (eds.), Literary Aesthetics: A Reader. Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2000.
ISBN 978-0-631-20869-3
Wadysaw Tatarkiewicz, A History of Six Ideas: an
Essay in Aesthetics, The Hague, 1980. ISBN 97890-247-2233-4
Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges: Introduction to Aesthetics
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