Outline of 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 Nature of aesthetics 2 Related academic areas 3 History of aesthetics 4 Concepts in aesthetics 5 Theories of aesthetics and art movements 6 Philosophers of art and aestheticians 7 See also 8 References 9 External links

Nature of aesthetics

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

• 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

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Theories of aesthetics and art movements

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

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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
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See also

References

External links

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