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.
Description of aesthetics
Aesthetics can be described as all of the following: 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 more...
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
External links
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