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Overview of and topical guide to 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 What type of thing is an aesthetic?
	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






What type of thing is an aesthetic?[edit]

Aesthetics can be described as all of the following:


	Branch of philosophy –
	Branch of axiology –




Related academic areas[edit]

	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[edit]

	History of aesthetics
	History of aesthetics before the 20th century




Concepts in aesthetics[edit]

	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


more...


Theories of aesthetics and art movements[edit]

	Symbolism
	Romanticism
	Historicism
	Classicism
	Modernism
	Postmodernism
	Psychoanalytic theory


more...


Philosophers of art and aestheticians[edit]

	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 ...


See also[edit]


	Philosophy portal





References[edit]




External links[edit]

Aestheticsat Wikipedia's sister projects
	Definitions from Wiktionary
	Media from Wikimedia Commons
	News from Wikinews
	Quotations from Wikiquote
	Texts from Wikisource
	Textbooks from Wikibooks
	Resources from Wikiversity



	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


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