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| | Aesthetics - encyclopedia article about Aesthetics. |
 | | Within the visual arts aesthetic considerations are usually associated with the visual sense, however in both painting and sculpture the presence of the object is also perceived spatially and to some extent by the senses of smell, sound and texture as well as through recognised associations and context. | | | This was the basis of abstract impressionism Abstract impressionism is a type of Abstract expressionism where brushstrokes are uniform and non-energetic, similar to the brushstrokes of the Impressionists, where in the action painting style of Abstract expressionism brushes were often dispensed with and paint was applied non-uniformly and energetically. | | | Kenosis is the affect of lyric poetry which creates a sense of emptiness and timelessness. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Aesthetics |
| | Applied aesthetics is the accurate description and valuation of particular works of art; technical aesthetics, the training of the art-student in individual productions; art-history, the continuous record of the development of art, according to a definite plan. | | | The proper subject; therefore, of aesthetics is the great arts; the technique and the theories of the lesser arts have a narrower range of material. | | | In a history of art only the imitative arts and, possibly, music are, as a rule, included; aesthetics, on the other hand, takes in the arts of oratory as well, though mere eloquence, because of its eminently practical character, is generally omitted. |
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| | Art Bulletin, The: Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. - book review |
| | This is against the background of a subject increasingly dominated by philosophers in the aesthetics journals, particularly the Jour nal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and British Journal of Aesthetics, aesthetics textbooks, and even Blackwell's Companion to Aesthetics. | | | Aesthetics is approached at a level of generality that would appal the typical art historian. | | | If we take aesthetics to refer to critical reflections on art, nature, and culture, including philosophical aesthetics, the field extends to include the theorists of the various arts, cultural theorists, and, implicitly, art historians. |
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| | Aesthetics : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online |
| | The first is that the philosophy of art is basic, since the aesthetic appreciation of anything that is not art is the appreciation of it as if it were art. | | | But how acceptable is his conception of an aesthetic judgment and how successful is his attempted justification of the claims of pure aesthetic judgments (see Kant, I. 1 Aesthetics of art | | | The second fails to do justice to the significance for artistic appreciation of various features of works of art that are not immediately perceptible, such as a work’s provenance (see Artistic forgery) and its position in the artist’s oeuvre. |
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| | Oxford University Press: Encyclopedia of Aesthetics: Michael Kelly |
| | Featuring 600 original articles by distinguished scholars from many fields and countries, it is a comprehensive survey of major concepts, thinkers, and debates about the meaning, uses, and value of all the arts--from painting and sculpture to literature, music, theater, dance, television, film, and popular culture. | | | A lively and often humorous introduction to aesthetics, focusing on the actual world of art today | | | Of special interest are in-depth surveys of Western aesthetics and broad coverage of non-Western traditions and theories of art. |
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