Outline of aesthetics

Short description: Overview of and topical guide to 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.

## Contents

* 1 Description of aesthetics
* 2 Related academic areas
* 3 History of aesthetics
* 4 Aesthetics and art movements
* 5 Aesthetics by time and location
* 6 Concepts in aesthetics
* 7 Philosophers of art and aestheticians
* 7.1 Ancient
* 7.2 Pre-20th Century
* 7.3 Contemporary
* 8 See also
* 9 References
* 10 External links

## 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

## Related academic areas

* Applied aesthetics
* Architecture
* Art
* Arts criticism
* Gastronomy
* Aesthetics of nature
* History of painting
* Painting
* Philosophy of film
* Aesthetic medicine
* Aesthetic dentistry
* Plastic surgery
* Aesthetics of music
* Philosophy of music
* Theory of painting
* Poetry
* Psychological aesthetics
* Aesthetics of science
* Sculpture
* Theological aesthetics

## History of aesthetics

* History of aesthetics
* History of aesthetics (pre-20th-century)

## Aesthetics and art movements

* Classicism
* Romanticism
* Historicism
* Marxist aesthetics
* Modernism
* Symbolism
* Postmodernism
* Psychoanalytic theory

## Aesthetics by time and location

* African aesthetic
* Itutu
* Ancient aesthetics
* Indian aesthetics
* Rasa
* Japanese aesthetics
* Iki
* Medieval aesthetics

## 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

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## Philosophers of art and aestheticians

### Ancient

* Plato
* Aristotle
* Plotinus
* Augustine

### Pre-20th Century

* 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

* 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

## References

1. ↑ "Aesthetics". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

## External links

* Outline of aesthetics at the Indiana Philosophy Ontology Project
* Outline of aesthetics at PhilPapers
* "Outline of aesthetics". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. http://www.iep.utm.edu/aestheti.
* 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

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Aesthetics topics

Philosophers|

* Abhinavagupta
* Theodor W. Adorno
* Leon Battista Alberti
* Thomas Aquinas
* Hans Urs von Balthasar
* Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
* Clive Bell
* Bernard Bosanquet
* Edward Bullough
* R. G. Collingwood
* Ananda Coomaraswamy
* Arthur Danto
* John Dewey
* Denis Diderot
* Hubert Dreyfus
* Curt John Ducasse
* Thierry de Duve
* Roger Fry
* Nelson Goodman
* Clement Greenberg
* Georg Hegel
* Martin Heidegger
* David Hume
* Immanuel Kant
* Paul Klee
* Susanne Langer
* Theodor Lipps
* György Lukács
* Jean-François Lyotard
* Joseph Margolis
* Jacques Maritain
* Thomas Munro
* Friedrich Nietzsche
* José Ortega y Gasset
* Dewitt H. Parker
* Stephen Pepper
* David Prall
* Jacques Rancière
* Ayn Rand
* Louis Lavelle
* George Lansing Raymond
* I. A. Richards
* George Santayana
* Friedrich Schiller
* Arthur Schopenhauer
* Roger Scruton
* Irving Singer
* Rabindranath Tagore
* Giorgio Vasari
* Morris Weitz
* Johann Joachim Winckelmann
* Richard Wollheim
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Theories|

* Classicism
* Evolutionary aesthetics
* Historicism
* Modernism
* New Classical
* Postmodernism
* Psychoanalytic theory
* Romanticism
* Symbolism
* more...

Concepts|

* Aesthetic emotions
* Aesthetic interpretation
* Art manifesto
* Avant-garde
* Axiology
* Beauty
* Boredom
* Camp
* Comedy
* Creativity
* Cuteness
* Disgust
* Ecstasy
* Elegance
* Entertainment
* Eroticism
* Gaze
* Harmony
* Judgement
* Kama
* Kitsch
* Life imitating art
* Magnificence
* Mimesis
* Perception
* Quality
* Rasa
* Reverence
* Style
* Sublime
* Taste
* Work of art

Related|

* Aesthetics of music
* Applied aesthetics
* Architecture
* Art
* Arts criticism
* Feminist aesthetics
* Gastronomy
* History of painting
* Humour
* Japanese aesthetics
* Literary merit
* Mathematical beauty
* Mathematics and architecture
* Mathematics and art
* Medieval aesthetics
* Music theory
* Neuroesthetics
* Painting
* Patterns in nature
* Philosophy of design
* Philosophy of film
* Philosophy of music
* Poetry
* Sculpture
* Theory of painting
* Theory of art
* Tragedy
* Visual arts

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