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?
Aesthetics can be described as all of the following:
- Branch of philosophy –
- Branch of axiology –
Related academic areas
- Aesthetics of music
- Applied aesthetics
- Architecture
- Art
- Arts criticism
- Gastronomy
- History of aesthetics (pre-20th-century)
- History of painting
- Painting
- Philosophy of film
- Philosophy of music
- Poetry
- Sculpture
- Theory of painting
History of aesthetics
Concepts in aesthetics
- Aesthetic emotions
- Art manifesto
- Art object
- Avant-garde
- Beauty
- Boring
- Comedy
- Camp
- Creativity
- Cute
- Disgusting
- Ecstasy
- Elegance
- Eroticism
- Entertainment
- Fun
- Gaze
- Harmony
- Humour
- Interpretation
- Judgment
- Kitsch
- Literary merit
- Mathematics and art
- Mathematical beauty
- Perception
- Pretentious
- Rasa
- Style
- Sublime
- Taste
- Tragedy
Theories of aesthetics and art movements
Philosophers of art and aestheticians
- Theodor W. Adorno
- Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- David Hume
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- G. W. F. Hegel
- Immanuel Kant
- Paul Klee
- Jean-François Lyotard
- Joseph Margolis
- Martin Heidegger
- Nelson Goodman
- Richard Wollheim
- Thierry de Duve
- George Santayana
- Hubert Dreyfus
- John Dewey
- Friedrich Schiller
- György Lukács
- Jacques Maritain
- Bernard Bosanquet
- Clive Bell
- I. A. Richards
- José Ortega y Gasset
- R. G. Collingwood
- David Prall
- Dewitt H. Parker
- Edward Bullough
- Irving Singer
- Roger Fry
- Stephen Pepper
- Susanne Langer
- Theodor Lipps
- Thomas Munro
- Curt John Ducasse
- Arthur Danto
- more ...
See also
References
External links
- 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