Outline of aesthetics

See also: Index of aesthetics articles

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

• History of aesthetics
  • History of aesthetics before the 20th century

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

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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
• more ...

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