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Outline of aesthetics

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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to aesthetics:

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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 –
  • 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

  • History of aesthetics

    • Concepts in aesthetics

  • Aesthetic emotions
  • Art manifesto
  • Art object
  • Avant-garde
  • Beauty
  • Boring
  • Comedy
  • Camp
  • Creativity
  • Cute
  • Discordant
  • 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

    • more...

    Theories of aesthetics and art movements

  • Symbolism
  • Romanticism
  • Historicism
  • Classicism
  • Modernism
  • Postmodernism
  • Psychoanalytic theory

    • more...

    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 ...

    • References

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