Aesthetics

Aesthetic redirects here. For the EP by From First to the recognition, appreciation or criticism of art or an art
Last, see Aesthetic (EP).
work.
Philosophical aesthetics has not only to speak about art
and to produce judgments about art works, but has also
to give a denition of what art is. Art is an autonomous
entity for philosophy, because art deals with the senses (i.
e. the etymology of aesthetics) and art is as such free of
any moral or political purpose. Hence, there are two different conceptions of art in aesthetics: art as knowledge
or art as action, but aesthetics is neither epistemology nor
ethics.[12]

Aesthetics (/stks/; also spelled sthetics and

esthetics also known in Greek as , or
Aisthtik") is a branch of philosophy dealing with the
nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty.[1][2] It is more scientically dened
as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste.[3] More
broadly, scholars in the eld dene aesthetics as critical
reection on art, culture and nature.[4][5] In modern English, the term aesthetic can also refer to a set of principles underlying the works of a particular art movement or
theory: One speaks for example of the Cubist aesthetic.[6]

3 History of aesthetics before the

20th century

Etymology

Main article: History of aesthetics before the 20th

century

The word aesthetic is derived from the Greek

(aisthetikos, meaning esthetic, sensitive, See also : Beauty (ancient thought)
sentient), which in turn was derived from
(aisthanomai, meaning I perceive, feel, sense).[7] The
term aesthetics was appropriated and coined with new
meaning in the German form sthetik (modern spelling
sthetik) by Alexander Baumgarten for the rst time in
his dissertation Mediationes philosophicae de nonnullis
ad poema pertinentibus (Philosophical considerations
of some matters pertaining the poem) in 1735,[8] even
though his later denition in the fragment Aesthetica
(1753) is more often referred to as the rst denition of
modern aesthetics.[9]

Aesthetics and the philosophy of

art

Bronze sculpture, thought to be either Poseidon or Zeus, National

Archaeological Museum of Athens

Aesthetics is for the artist as Ornithology is

for the birds.
Barnett Newman[10][11]

Any aesthetic doctrines that guided the production and

interpretation of prehistoric art are mostly unknown. An
indirect concern with aesthetics can be inferred from
ancient art in many early civilizations, including Egypt,
Mesopotamia, Persia, Greece, China, the Etruscans,
Rome, India, the Celtic peoples, and the Maya, as each
of them developed a unique and characteristic style in its
art.

For some, aesthetics is considered a synonym for the philosophy of art since Hegel, while others insist that there
is a signicant distinction between these closely related
elds. In practice, aesthetic judgement refers to the sensory contemplation or appreciation of an object (not nec- Western aesthetics usually refers to Greek philosophers
essarily an art object), while artistic judgement refers to as the earliest source of formal aesthetic considerations.
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3 HISTORY OF AESTHETICS BEFORE THE 20TH CENTURY

Plato believed in beauty as a form in which beautiful

objects partake and which causes them to be beautiful.
He felt that beautiful objects incorporated proportion,
harmony, and unity among their parts. Similarly, in the
Metaphysics, Aristotle found that the universal elements
of beauty were order, symmetry, and deniteness.

ing to be manifest to itself, stage by stage, changing to a

perfection that only philosophy can approach. Art is the
rst stage in which the absolute spirit is manifest immediately to sense-perception, and is thus an objective rather
than subjective revelation of beauty.
For Arthur Schopenhauer aesthetic contemplation of
beauty is the most free that the pure intellect can be from
the dictates of will; here we contemplate perfection of
form without any kind of worldly agenda, and thus any
intrusion of utility or politics would ruin the point of the
beauty. It is thus for Schopenhauer one way to ght the
suering.
The British were largely divided into intuitionist and analytic camps. The intuitionists believed that aesthetic experience was disclosed by a single mental faculty of some
kind. For Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury this was identical to the moral sense, beauty just
is the sensory version of moral goodness. For Ludwig
Wittgenstein aesthetics consisted in the description of a
whole culture which is a linguistic impossibility. Hence
his viewpoint can be paraphrased as That which constitutes aesthetics lies outside the realm of the language
game.

Cubist painting by Georges Braque, Violin and Candlestick

(1910)

From the late 17th to the early 20th century Western

aesthetics underwent a slow revolution into what is often called modernism. German and British thinkers emphasised beauty as the key component of art and of the
aesthetic experience, and saw art as necessarily aiming at
absolute beauty.
For Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten aesthetics is the science of the sense experiences, a younger sister of logic,
and beauty is thus the most perfect kind of knowledge
that sense experience can have. For Immanuel Kant the
aesthetic experience of beauty is a judgment of a subjective but similar human truth, since all people should
agree that this rose is beautiful if it in fact is. However, beauty cannot be reduced to any more basic set of
features. For Friedrich Schiller aesthetic appreciation of
beauty is the most perfect reconciliation of the sensual
William Hogarth, self-portrait, 1745
and rational parts of human nature.
For Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, the philosophy
of art is the organon of philosophy concerning the relation between man and nature. So aesthetics began now
to be the name for the philosophy of art. Friedrich von
Schlegel, August Wilhelm Schlegel, Friedrich Schleiermacher and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel also gave
lectures on aesthetics as philosophy of art after 1800.

For Oscar Wilde, the contemplation of beauty for

beautys sake (augmented by John Ruskin's search for
moral grounding) was more than the foundation for much
of his literary career; he once stated, Aestheticism is a
search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of
the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of
the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the
For Hegel, all culture is a matter of absolute spirit com- secret of life..[13]

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Wilde famously toured the United States in 1882. He
travelled across the United States spreading the idea of
Aesthetics in a speech called The English Renaissance.
In his speech he proposed that Beauty and Aesthetics was
not languid but energetic. By beautifying the outward
aspects of life, one would beautify the inner ones. The
English Renaissance was, he said, like the Italian Renaissance before it, a sort of rebirth of the spirit of man.[14]
For Francis Hutcheson beauty is disclosed by an inner
mental sense, but is a subjective fact rather than an objective one. Analytic theorists like Henry Home, Lord
Kames, William Hogarth, and Edmund Burke hoped to
reduce beauty to some list of attributes. Hogarth, for example, thinks that beauty consists of (1) tness of the
parts to some design; (2) variety in as many ways as possible; (3) uniformity, regularity or symmetry, which is
only beautiful when it helps to preserve the character of
tness; (4) simplicity or distinctness, which gives pleasure
not in itself, but through its enabling the eye to enjoy variety with ease; (5) intricacy, which provides employment
for our active energies, leading the eye on a wanton kind
of chase"; and (6) quantity or magnitude, which draws
our attention and produces admiration and awe. Later
analytic aestheticians strove to link beauty to some scientic theory of psychology (such as James Mill) or biology
(such as Herbert Spencer).

New Criticism and The Intentional Fallacy

During the rst half of the twentieth century, a signicant shift to general aesthetic theory took place which attempted to apply aesthetic theory between various forms
of art, including the literary arts and the visual arts, to
each other. This resulted in the rise of the New Criticism school and debate concerning the intentional fallacy.
At issue was the question of whether the aesthetic intentions of the artist in creating the work of art, whatever
its specic form, should be associated with the criticism
and evaluation of the nal product of the work of art, or,
if the work of art should be evaluated on its own merits
independent of the intentions of the artist.

repudiated by theorists from the reader-response school

of literary theory. Ironically, one of the leading theorists from this school, Stanley Fish, was himself trained
by New Critics. Fish criticizes Wimsatt and Beardsley in
his essay Literature in the Reader (1970).[15]
As summarized by Gaut and Livingston in their essay The Creation of Art": Structuralist and poststructuralists theorists and critics were sharply critical of
many aspects of New Criticism, beginning with the emphasis on aesthetic appreciation and the so-called autonomy of art, but they reiterated the attack on biographical
criticisms assumption that the artists activities and experience were a privileged critical topic.[16] These authors contend that: Anti-intentionalists, such as formalists, hold that the intentions involved in the making of art
are irrelevant or peripheral to correctly interpreting art.
So details of the act of creating a work, though possibly
of interest in themselves, have no bearing on the correct
interpretation of the work.[17]
Gaut and Livingston dene the intentionalists as distinct
from formalists stating that: Intentionalists, unlike formalists, hold that reference to intentions is essential in
xing the correct interpretation of works. They quote
Richard Wollheim as stating that, The task of criticism
is the reconstruction of the creative process, where the
creative process must in turn be thought of as something
not stopping short of, but terminating on, the work of art
itself.[17]

5 Post-modern aesthetics and psychoanalysis

In 1946, William K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley published a classic and controversial New Critical essay entitled "The Intentional Fallacy", in which they argued
strongly against the relevance of an authors intention, or
intended meaning in the analysis of a literary work. For
Wimsatt and Beardsley, the words on the page were all
that mattered; importation of meanings from outside the
text was considered irrelevant, and potentially distracting.
In another essay, "The Aective Fallacy, which served
as a kind of sister essay to The Intentional Fallacy Example of the Dada aesthetic, Marcel Duchamp's Fountain
Wimsatt and Beardsley also discounted the readers per- 1917
sonal/emotional reaction to a literary work as a valid
means of analyzing a text. This fallacy would later be Early-twentieth-century artists, poets and composers

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challenged existing notions of beauty, broadening the
scope of art and aesthetics. In 1941, Eli Siegel, American philosopher and poet, founded Aesthetic Realism, the
philosophy that reality itself is aesthetic, and that The
world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.[18][19]
Various attempts have been made to dene Post-Modern
Aesthetics. The challenge to the assumption that beauty
was central to art and aesthetics, thought to be original, is
actually continuous with older aesthetic theory; Aristotle
was the rst in the Western tradition to classify beauty
into types as in his theory of drama, and Kant made a distinction between beauty and the sublime. What was new
was a refusal to credit the higher status of certain types,
where the taxonomy implied a preference for tragedy and
the sublime to comedy and the Rococo.

AESTHETICS AND SCIENCE

to develop a rigorous theory of aesthetics, focusing on the

concepts of beauty,[30] love[31] and sublimity.[32] In contrast to romantic theorists Sircello argued for the objectivity of beauty and formulated a theory of love on that
basis.
British philosopher and theorist of conceptual art aesthetics, Peter Osborne, makes the point that "'postconceptual art' aesthetic does not concern a particular
type of contemporary art so much as the historicalontological condition for the production of contemporary
art in general....[33] Osborne noted that contemporary art
is 'post-conceptual in a public lecture delivered in 2010.

Gary Tedman has put forward a theory of a subjectless

aesthetics derived from Karl Marxs concept of alienation, and Louis Althussers anti humanism, using elements of Freuds group psychology, dening a concept of
Croce suggested that expression is central in the way the 'aesthetic level of practice'.[34]
that beauty was once thought to be central. George Dickie Gregory Loewen has suggested that the subject is key in
suggested that the sociological institutions of the art world the interaction with the aesthetic object. The work of art
were the glue binding art and sensibility into unities.[20] serves as a vehicle for the projection of the individuals
Marshall McLuhan suggested that art always functions as identity into the world of objects, as well as being the ira counter-environment designed to make visible what is
ruptive source of much of what is uncanny in modern life.
usually invisible about a society.[21] Theodor Adorno felt As well, art is used to memorialize individuated biograthat aesthetics could not proceed without confronting the
phies in a manner that allows persons to imagine that they
role of the culture industry in the commodication of art are part of something greater than themselves.[35]
and aesthetic experience. Hal Foster attempted to portray the reaction against beauty and Modernist art in The
Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture. Arthur
Danto has described this reaction as kalliphobia (af- 7 Aesthetics and science
ter the Greek word for beauty, kallos).[22] Andr
Malraux explains that the notion of beauty was connected
to a particular conception of art that arose with the Renaissance and was still dominant in the eighteenth century
(but was supplanted later). The discipline of aesthetics,
which originated in the eighteenth century, mistook this
transient state of aairs for a revelation of the permanent
nature of art.[23] Brian Massumi suggests to reconsider
beauty following the aesthetical thought in the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari.[24]
Jean-Franois Lyotard re-invokes the Kantian distinction
between taste and the sublime. Sublime painting, unlike
kitsch realism, "... will enable us to see only by making it impossible to see; it will please only by causing
pain.[25][26]
Sigmund Freud inaugurated aesthetical thinking in
Psychoanalysis mainly via the Uncanny as aesthetical aect.[27] Following Freud and Merleau-Ponty,[28]
Jacques Lacan theorized aesthetics in terms of sublimation and the Thing.[29]

Initial image of a Mandelbrot set zoom sequence with continuously colored environment

The eld of experimental aesthetics was founded by

Gustav Theodor Fechner in the 19th century. Experimental aesthetics is characterized by a subject-based,
The relation of Marxist aesthetics to post-modern aesinductive approach. The analysis of individual expethetics is still a contentious area of debate.
rience and behavior based on experimental methods is
a central part of experimental aesthetics. In particular, the perception of works of art,[36] music, or modern
6 Recent aesthetics
items such as websites[37] or other IT products[38] is studied. Experimental aesthetics is strongly oriented towards
Guy Sircello has pioneered eorts in analytic philosophy the natural sciences. Modern approaches mostly come

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from the elds of cognitive psychology or neuroscience the poem Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats, or by the
(neuroaesthetics[39] ).
Hindu motto Satyam Shivam Sundaram (Satya (Truth)
In the 1970s, Abraham Moles and Frieder Nake were is Shiva (God), and Shiva is Sundaram (Beautiful)). The
among the rst to analyze links between aesthetics, fact that judgments of beauty and judgments of truth both
are inuenced by processing uency, which is the ease
information processing, and information theory.[40][41]
with which information can be processed, has been preIn the 1990s, Jrgen Schmidhuber described an sented as an explanation for why beauty is sometimes
algorithmic theory of beauty which takes the subjectivity equated with truth.[51] Indeed, recent research found that
of the observer into account and postulates: among people use beauty as an indication for truth in matheseveral observations classied as comparable by a given matical pattern tasks.[52] However, scientists including
subjective observer, the aesthetically most pleasing the mathematician David Orrell[53] and physicist Marcelo
one is the one with the shortest description, given Gleiser[54] have argued that the emphasis on aesthetic crithe observers previous knowledge and his particular teria such as symmetry is equally capable of leading scimethod for encoding the data.[42][43] This is closely entists astray.
related to the principles of algorithmic information
theory and minimum description length. One of his
examples: mathematicians enjoy simple proofs with a
short description in their formal language. Another very 9 Computational inference of aesconcrete example describes an aesthetically pleasing
thetics
human face whose proportions can be described by
very few bits of information,[44][45] drawing inspiration
Since about 2005, computer scientists have attempted to
from less detailed 15th century proportion studies by
develop automated methods to infer aesthetic quality of
Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Drer. Schmidhubers
images.[55][56][57][58] Typically, these approaches follow
theory explicitly distinguishes between whats beautiful
a machine learning approach, where large numbers of
and whats interesting, stating that interestingness cormanually rated photographs are used to teach a comresponds to the rst derivative of subjectively perceived
puter about what visual properties are of relevance to aesbeauty. Here the premise is that any observer continually
thetic quality. The Acquine engine, developed at Penn
tries to improve the predictability and compressibility
State University, rates natural photographs uploaded by
of the observations by discovering regularities such as
users.[59]
repetitions and symmetries and fractal self-similarity.
Whenever the observers learning process (which may Notable in this area is Michael Leyton, professor of psybe a predictive neural network; see also Neuroesthetics) chology at Rutgers University. Leyton is the president of
leads to improved data compression such that the the International Society for Mathematical and Computaobservation sequence can be described by fewer bits tional Aesthetics and the International Society for Group
than before, the temporary interestingness of the data Theory in Cognitive Science and has developed a genercorresponds to the number of saved bits. This compres- ative theory of shape.
sion progress is proportional to the observers internal There have also been relatively successful attempts with
reward, also called curiosity reward. A reinforcement regard to chess and music.[60] A relation between Max
learning algorithm is used to maximize future expected Bense's mathematical formulation of aesthetics in terms
reward by learning to execute action sequences that cause of redundancy and complexity and theories of musiadditional interesting input data with yet unknown but cal anticipation was oered using the notion of Informalearnable predictability or regularity. The principles can tion Rate.[61]
be implemented on articial agents which then exhibit a
form of articial curiosity.[46][47][48][49]

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Truth as beauty, mathematics

Mathematical considerations, such as symmetry and

complexity, are used for analysis in theoretical aesthetics. This is dierent from the aesthetic considerations
of applied aesthetics used in the study of mathematical
beauty. Aesthetic considerations such as symmetry and
simplicity are used in areas of philosophy, such as ethics
and theoretical physics and cosmology to dene truth,
outside of empirical considerations. Beauty and Truth
have been argued to be nearly synonymous,[50] as reected in the statement Beauty is truth, truth beauty in

Main article: Evolutionary aesthetics

Evolutionary aesthetics refers to evolutionary psychology
theories in which the basic aesthetic preferences of Homo
sapiens are argued to have evolved in order to enhance
survival and reproductive success.[62] One example being that humans are argued to nd beautiful and prefer
landscapes which were good habitats in the ancestral environment. Another example is that body symmetry is
an important aspect of physical attractiveness which may
be due to this indicating good health during body growth.

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Evolutionary explanations for aesthetical preferences are

important parts of evolutionary musicology, Darwinian
literary studies, and the study of the evolution of emotion.

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Applied aesthetics

Main article: Applied aesthetics

As well as being applied to art, aesthetics can also be applied to cultural objects such as crucix or tools. Aesthetic coupling between art-objects and medical topics was made by speakers working for the US Information Agency[63] This coupling was made to reinforce
the learning paradigm when English-language speakers
used translators to address audiences in their own country. These audiences were generally not uent in the
English language. It can also be used in topics as diverse as mathematics, gastronomy, fashion and website
design.[64][65][66]

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Aesthetic ethics

Political and Literary. Indianapolis, Literary Classics 5,

1987.) Thus, the sensory discrimination is linked to capacity for pleasure. For Kant enjoyment is the result
when pleasure arises from sensation, but judging something to be beautiful has a third requirement: sensation
must give rise to pleasure by engaging our capacities of
reective contemplation. Judgments of beauty are sensory, emotional and intellectual all at once.
Viewer interpretations of beauty possess two concepts
of value: aesthetics and taste. Aesthetics is the philosophical notion of beauty. Taste is a result of an education process and awareness of elite cultural values learned
through exposure to mass culture. Bourdieu examined
how the elite in society dene the aesthetic values like
taste and how varying levels of exposure to these values
can result in variations by class, cultural background, and
education.[70] According to Kant, beauty is subjective and
universal; thus certain things are beautiful to everyone.[71]
The contemporary view of beauty is not based on innate
qualities, but rather on cultural specics and individual
interpretations.

13.1 Factors involved in aesthetic judgment

Aesthetic ethics refers to the idea that human conduct and

behaviour ought to be governed by that which is beautiful and attractive. John Dewey[67] has pointed out that the
unity of aesthetics and ethics is in fact reected in our understanding of behaviour being fair the word having
a double meaning of attractive and morally acceptable.
More recently, James Page[68][69] has suggested that aesthetic ethics might be taken to form a philosophical rationale for peace education.

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Aesthetic judgment

Rainbows often have aesthetic appeal.

Judgments of aesthetical values seem often to involve

many other kinds of issues as well. Responses such as
disgust show that sensory detection is linked in instinctual
ways to facial expressions, and even behaviors like the gag
reex. Yet disgust can often be a learned or cultural issue too; as Darwin pointed out, seeing a stripe of soup in
a mans beard is disgusting even though neither soup nor
beards are themselves disgusting. Aesthetic judgments
may be linked to emotions or, like emotions, partially embodied in our physical reactions. Seeing a sublime view
of a landscape may give us a reaction of awe, which might
manifest physically as an increased heart rate or widened
eyes. These unconscious reactions may even be partly
constitutive of what makes our judgment a judgment that
Aesthetic judgments usually go beyond sensory discrim- the landscape is sublime.
ination. For David Hume, delicacy of taste is not merely Likewise, aesthetic judgments may be culturally condithe ability to detect all the ingredients in a composi- tioned to some extent. Victorians in Britain often saw
tion, but also our sensitivity to pains as well as plea- African sculpture as ugly, but just a few decades later,
sures, which escape the rest of mankind. (Essays Moral Edwardian audiences saw the same sculptures as being
Judgments of aesthetic value rely on our ability to discriminate at a sensory level. Aesthetics examines our
aective domain response to an object or phenomenon.
Immanuel Kant, writing in 1790, observes of a man If
he says that canary wine is agreeable he is quite content if
someone else corrects his terms and reminds him to say
instead: It is agreeable to me, because Everyone has
his own (sense of) taste". The case of beauty is dierent from mere agreeableness because, If he proclaims
something to be beautiful, then he requires the same liking from others; he then judges not just for himself but
for everyone, and speaks of beauty as if it were a property
of things.

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What is art"?

beautiful. Evaluations of beauty may well be linked to

desirability, perhaps even to sexual desirability. Thus,
judgments of aesthetic value can become linked to judgments of economic, political, or moral value.[72] In a current context, one might judge a Lamborghini to be beautiful partly because it is desirable as a status symbol, or
we might judge it to be repulsive partly because it signies for us over-consumption and oends our political or
moral values.[73]

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ing it requires a description of the entire phenomenon, as
Wittgenstein argued in his lectures on aesthetics. Likewise there has been long debate on how perception of
beauty in the natural world, especially perception of the
human form as beautiful, is supposed to relate to perceiving beauty in art or artefacts. This goes back at least to
Kant, with some echoes even in St. Bonaventure.

Aesthetic judgments can often be very ne-grained and 13.3

internally contradictory. Likewise aesthetic judgments
seem often to be at least partly intellectual and interpretative. It is what a thing means or symbolizes for us that
is often what we are judging. Modern aestheticians have
asserted that will and desire were almost dormant in aesthetic experience, yet preference and choice have seemed
important aesthetics to some 20th-century thinkers. The
point is already made by Hume, but see Mary Mothersill, Beauty and the Critics Judgment, in The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics, 2004. Thus aesthetic judgments
might be seen to be based on the senses, emotions, intellectual opinions, will, desires, culture, preferences, values, subconscious behavior, conscious decision, training,
instinct, sociological institutions, or some complex combination of these, depending on exactly which theory one
employs.

13.2

What is art"?

Harmony of colors

Are dierent art forms beautiful, disgusting, or boring in the same way? How best to dene the term art is a subject of con-

A third major topic in the study of aesthetic judgments

is how they are unied across art forms. We can call
a person, a house, a symphony, a fragrance, and a
mathematical proof beautiful. What characteristics do
they share which give them that status? What possible
feature could a proof and a fragrance both share in virtue
of which they both count as beautiful? What makes a
painting beautiful is quite dierent from what makes music beautiful, which suggests that each art form has its own
language for the judgement of aesthetics.[74]
At the same time, there is seemingly quite a lack of words
to express oneself accurately when making an aesthetic
judgment. An aesthetic judgment cannot be an empirical judgement. Therefore, due to impossibility for precision, there is confusion about what interpretations can
be culturally negotiated. Due to imprecision in the standard English language, two completely dierent feelings
experienced by two dierent people can be represented
by an identical verbal expression. Wittgenstein stated this
in his lectures on aesthetics and language games.
A collective identication of beauty, with willing participants in a given social spectrum, may be a socially negotiated phenomenon, discussed in a culture or context. Is
there some underlying unity to aesthetic judgment and is
there some way to articulate the similarities of a beautiful house, beautiful proof, and beautiful sunset?[75] Den-

stant contention; many books and journal articles have

been published arguing over even the basics of what we
mean by the term art.[76] Theodor Adorno claimed
in 1969 It is self-evident that nothing concerning art
is self-evident.[77][78] Artists, philosophers, anthropologists, psychologists and programmers all use the notion of
art in their respective elds, and give it operational denitions that vary considerably. Furthermore, it is clear that
even the basic meaning of the term art has changed several times over the centuries, and has continued to evolve
during the 20th century as well.
The main recent sense of the word art is roughly as an
abbreviation for creative art or "ne art. Here we mean
that skill is being used to express the artists creativity, or
to engage the audiences aesthetic sensibilities, or to draw
the audience towards consideration of the ner things.
Often, if the skill is being used in a functional object,
people will consider it a craft instead of art, a suggestion
which is highly disputed by many Contemporary Craft
thinkers. Likewise, if the skill is being used in a commercial or industrial way it may be considered design instead of art, or contrariwise these may be defended as art
forms, perhaps called applied art. Some thinkers, for instance, have argued that the dierence between ne art
and applied art has more to do with the actual function of
the object than any clear denitional dierence.[79] Art
usually implies no function other than to convey or com-

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municate an idea.

artistic function in another context (helping us to appreEven as late as 1912 it was normal in the West to assume ciate the beauty of the human gure). '
that all art aims at beauty, and thus that anything that Marxist attempts to dene art focus on its place in the
wasn't trying to be beautiful couldn't count as art. The mode of production, such as in Walter Benjamin's escubists, dadaists, Stravinsky, and many later art move- say The Author as Producer,[82] and/or its political role in
ments struggled against this conception that beauty was class struggle.[83] Revising some concepts of the Marxist
central to the denition of art, with such success that, philosopher Louis Althusser, Gary Tedman denes art in
according to Danto, Beauty had disappeared not only terms of social reproduction of the relations of producfrom the advanced art of the 1960s but from the ad- tion on the aesthetic level.[84]
vanced philosophy of art of that decade as well.[77] See also: Classicatory disputes about art
Perhaps some notion like expression (in Croces theories) or counter-environment (in McLuhans theory)
can replace the previous role of beauty. Brian Massumi
brought back beauty into consideration together with
13.4 What should art be like?
expression.[80] Another view, as important to the philosophy of art as beauty, is that of the sublime, elabMany goals have been argued for art, and aestheticians
orated upon in the twentieth century by the postmodern
often argue that some goal or another is superior in some
philosopher Jean-Franois Lyotard. A further approach,
way. Clement Greenberg, for instance, argued in 1960
elaborated by Andr Malraux in works such as The Voices
that each artistic medium should seek that which makes it
of Silence, is that art is fundamentally a response to
unique among the possible mediums and then purify itself
a metaphysical question ('Art', he writes, 'is an 'antiof anything other than expression of its own uniqueness as
destiny'). Malraux argues that, while art has sometimes
a form.[85] The Dadaist Tristan Tzara on the other hand
been oriented towards beauty and the sublime (princisaw the function of art in 1918 as the destruction of a
pally in post-Renaissance European art) these qualities,
mad social order. We must sweep and clean. Arm the
as the wider history of art demonstrates, are by no means
cleanliness of the individual after the state of madness,
[81]
essential to it.
aggressive complete madness of a world abandoned to the
Perhaps (as in Kennicks theory) no denition of art is hands of bandits.[86] Formal goals, creative goals, selfpossible anymore. Perhaps art should be thought of as expression, political goals, spiritual goals, philosophical
a cluster of related concepts in a Wittgensteinian fashion goals, and even more perceptual or aesthetic goals have
(as in Weitz or Beuys). Another approach is to say that all been popular pictures of what art should be like.
art is basically a sociological category, that whatever
art schools and museums and artists dene as art is considered art regardless of formal denitions. This insti- 13.5 The value of art
tutional denition of art (see also Institutional Critique)
has been championed by George Dickie. Most people Tolstoy dened art as the following: Art is a human
did not consider the depiction of a store-bought urinal activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by
or Brillo Box to be art until Marcel Duchamp and Andy means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelWarhol (respectively) placed them in the context of art ings he has lived through, and that other people are in(i.e., the art gallery), which then provided the association fected by these feelings and also experience them. Howof these objects with the associations that dene art.
ever, this denition is merely a starting point for his theProceduralists often suggest that it is the process by which
a work of art is created or viewed that makes it art, not
any inherent feature of an object, or how well received it
is by the institutions of the art world after its introduction
to society at large. If a poet writes down several lines,
intending them as a poem, the very procedure by which
it is written makes it a poem. Whereas if a journalist
writes exactly the same set of words, intending them as
shorthand notes to help him write a longer article later,
these would not be a poem. Leo Tolstoy, on the other
hand, claims in his What is art? (1897) that what decides
whether or not something is art is how it is experienced by
its audience, not by the intention of its creator. Functionalists like Monroe Beardsley argue that whether or not a
piece counts as art depends on what function it plays in a
particular context; the same Greek vase may play a nonartistic function in one context (carrying wine), and an

ory of arts value. To some extent, the value of art, for

Tolstoy, is one with the value of empathy. However,
sometimes empathy is not of value. In chapter fteen
of What Is Art?, Tolstoy says that some feelings are good,
but others are bad, and so art is only valuable when it
generates empathy or shared feeling for good feelings.
For example, Tolstoy asserts that empathy for decadent
members of the ruling class makes society worse, rather
than better. In chapter sixteen, he asserts that the best
art is universal art that expresses simple and accessible
positive feeling.[87]
Other possible views are these: Art can act as a means
to some special kind of knowledge. Art may give insight
into the human condition. Art relates to science and religion. Art serves as a tool of education, or indoctrination,
or enculturation. Art makes us more moral. It uplifts us
spiritually. Art is politics by other means. Art has the

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value of allowing catharsis. In any case, the value of art
may determine the suitability of an art form. Do they differ signicantly in their values, or (if not) in their ability
to achieve the unitary value of art?
But to approach the question of the value of art systematically, one ought to ask: for whom? For the artist? For
the audience? For society at large, and/or for individuals
beyond the audience? Is the value of art dierent in
each of these dierent contexts?
Working on the intended value of art tends to help dene
the relations between art and other acts. Art clearly does
have spiritual goals in many contexts, but what exactly is
the dierence between religious art and religion per se?
The truth is complex; art is both useless in a functional
sense, and also the most important human activity.

6. Special focus. Art is set aside from ordinary life and

made a dramatic focus of experience.

It might be objected, however, that there are too many exceptions to Duttons categories. For example, the installations of the contemporary artist Thomas Hirschhorn deliberately eschew technical virtuosity. People can appreciate a Renaissance Madonna for aesthetic reasons, but
such objects often had (and sometimes still have) specic
devotional functions. Rules of composition that might
be read into Duchamp's Fountain or John Cage's 433 do
not locate the works in a recognizable style (or certainly
not a style recognizable at the time of the works realisation). Moreover, some of Duttons categories seem too
broad: a physicist might entertain hypothetical worlds in
his/her imagination in the course of formulating a theory. Another problem is that Duttons categories seek
to universalise traditional European notions of aesthetics and art forgetting that, as Andr Malraux and others
have pointed out, there have been large numbers of cultures in which such ideas (including the idea art itself)
were non-existent.[91]

An argument for the value of art, used in the ctional

work The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, proceeds that,
if some external force presenting imminent destruction of
Earth asked humanity what its value waswhat should
humanitys response be? The argument continues that
the only justication humanity could give for its continued existence would be the past creation and continued
creation of things like a Shakespeare play, a Rembrandt
painting or a Bach concerto. The suggestion is that these
are the things of value which dene humanity.[88] Whatever one might think of this claim and it does seem to
undervalue the many other achievements of which human
beings have shown themselves capable, both individually
and collectively it is true that art appears to possess a 15 Criticism
special capacity to endure (live on) beyond the moment
of its birth, in many cases for centuries or millennia. This
The philosophy of aesthetics as a practice has been critcapacity of art to endure over time what precisely it is
icized by some sociologists and writers of art and sociand how it operates has been widely neglected in modety. Raymond Williams argues that there is no unique and
[89]
ern aesthetics.
or individual aesthetic object which can be extrapolated
from the art world, but that there is a continuum of cultural forms and experience of which ordinary speech and
14 Aesthetic universals
experiences may signal as art. By art we may frame several artistic works or creations as so though this referThe philosopher Denis Dutton identied six universal sig- ence remains within the institution or special event which
creates it and this leaves some works or other possible
natures in human aesthetics:[90]
art outside of the frame work, or other interpretations
1. Expertise or virtuosity. Humans cultivate, recog- such as other phenomenon which may not be considered
as art.
nize, and admire technical artistic skills.
Pierre Bourdieu disagrees with Kants idea of the aes2. Nonutilitarian pleasure. People enjoy art for arts
thetic. He argues that Kants aesthetic merely represake, and don't demand that it keep them warm or
sents an experience that is the product of an elevated class
put food on the table.
habitus and scholarly leisure as opposed to other possible
3. Style. Artistic objects and performances satisfy and equally valid aesthetic experiences which lay outrules of composition that place them in a recogniz- side Kants narrow denition.
able style.
Timothy Laurie argues that theories of musical aesthet4. Criticism. People make a point of judging, appreci- ics framed entirely in terms of appreciation, contemplation or reection risk idealising an implausibly unmoating, and interpreting works of art.
tivated listener dened solely through musical objects,
5. Imitation. With a few important exceptions like ab- rather than seeing them as a person for whom complex
stract painting, works of art simulate experiences of intentions and motivations produce variable attractions to
the world.
cultural objects and practices.[92]

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16.1

16 AESTHETICS IN NON-WESTERN CULTURES

Aesthetics in Non-Western cultures

Indian aesthetics

form of religious instruction. While the date of composition varies wildly among scholars, ranging from the
era of Plato and Aristotle to the seventh century CE. The
Ntyashstra presents the aesthetic concepts of rasas and
their associated bhvas in Chapters Six and Seven respectively, which appear to be independent of the work as a
whole. Eight rasas and associated bhvas are named and
their enjoyment is likened to savoring a meal: rasa is the
enjoyment of avors that arise from the proper preparation of ingredients and the quality of ingredients. What
rasa actually is, in a theoretical sense, is not discussed
and given the Ntyashstra's pithy wording it is unlikely
the exact understanding of the original author(s) will be
known.

Indian art evolved with an emphasis on inducing special

spiritual or philosophical states in the audience, or with
representing them symbolically. According to Kapila
Vatsyayan, Classical Indian architecture, sculpture,
painting, literature (kvya), music, and dancing evolved
their own rules conditioned by their respective media, but
they shared with one another not only the underlying spiritual beliefs of the Indian religio-philosophic mind, but
also the procedures by which the relationships of the sym- The theory of the rasas develops signicantly with the
bol and the spiritual states were worked out in detail.
Kashmiri aesthetician ndandavardhanas classic on poIn the Pan Indian philosophic thought the term 'Satyam etics, the Dhvanyloka which introduces the ninth rasa,
Shivam Sundaram' is another name for the concept of shnta-rasa as a specically religious feeling of peace
the Supreme. 'Sat' is the truth value, 'Shiv' is the good (nta) which arises from its bhva, weariness of the pleavalue & 'Sundaram' is the beauty value. Man through his sures of the world. The primary purpose of this text is to
'Srabana' or education, 'Manana' or experience and con- rene the literary concept dhvani or poetic suggestion, by
ceptualization and 'Sadhana' or practice, through dier- arguing for the existence of the rasa-dhvani, primarily
ent stages of life (Ashramas) comes to form and realize in forms of Sanskrit including a word, sentence or whole
the idea of these three values to develop a value system. work suggests a real-world emotional state or bhva, but
This Value-system helps develop two basic ideas 1) that thanks to aesthetic distance, the sensitive spectator relof 'Daksha' or the adept/expert and 2) of Mahana/Parama ishes the rasa, the aesthetic avor of tragedy, heroism or
or the Absolute and thus to judge anything in this universe romance.
in the light of these two measures, known as 'Adarsha'. A
person who has mastered great amounts of knowledge of
the grammars, rules, & language of an art-form are adepts
(Daksha), whereas those who have worked through the
whole system and journeyed ahead of these to become
a law unto themselves is called a Mahana. Individuals
idea of 'Daksha' and 'Mahana' is relative to the development of the concept of 'Satyam-Shivam-Sundaram.' For
example, Tagores idea of these two concepts should be
above any common mans and many perceive Tagore as
a 'Mahana' Artist in the realm of literature. This concept
of Satyam-Shivam-Sundaram, a kind of Value Theory is
the cornerstone of Indian Aesthetics.

The 9th10th century master of the religious system

known as the nondual Shaivism of Kashmir (or Kashmir Shaivism) and aesthetician, Abhinavagupta brought
rasa theory to its pinnacle in his separate commentaries
on the Dhvanyloka, the Dhvanyloka-locana (translated
by Ingalls, Masson and Patwardhan, 1992) and the Abhinavabharati, his commentary on the Ntyashstra, portions of which are translated by Gnoli and Masson and
Patwardhan. Abhinavagupta oers for the rst time a
technical denition of rasa which is the universal bliss
of the Self or Atman colored by the emotional tone of
a drama. Shnta-rasa functions as an equal member of
the set of rasas but is simultaneously distinct being the
most clear form of aesthetic bliss. Abhinavagupta likens
it to the string of a jeweled necklace; while it may not
be the most appealing for most people, it is the string
that gives form to the necklace, allowing the jewels of
the other eight rasas to be relished. Relishing the rasas
and particularly shnta-rasa is hinted as being as-goodas but never-equal-to the bliss of Self-realization experienced by yogis.

Of particular concern to Indian drama and literature are

the term 'Bhava' or the state of mind and rasa referring
generally to the emotional avors/essence crafted into the
work by the writer and relished by a 'sensitive spectator'
or sahdaya. Poets like Klidsa were attentive to rasa,
which blossomed into a fully developed aesthetic system.
Even in contemporary India the term rasa denoting avor or essence is used colloquially to describe the aesthetic experiences in lms; msala mix describes popular Hindi cinema lms which serve a so-called balanced
16.2 Chinese aesthetics
emotional meal for the masses, savored as rasa by these
spectators.
Chinese art has a long history of varied styles and emRasa theory blossoms beginning with the Sanskrit text phases. Confucius emphasized the role of the arts and
Ntyashstra (ntya meaning drama and shstra mean- humanities (especially music and poetry) in broadening
ing science of), a work attributed to Bharata Muni human nature and aiding li (etiquette, the rites) in bringwhere the Gods declare that drama is the 'Fifth Veda' ing us back to what is essential about humanity. His oppobecause it is suitable for the degenerate age as the best nent Mozi, however, argued that music and ne arts were

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Arab aesthetics

classist and wasteful, beneting the rich over the poor.

By the 4th century AD artists had started debating in writing over the proper goals of art as well. Gu Kaizhi has left
three surviving books on the theory of painting. Several
later artists or scholars both created art and wrote about
the creation of it. Religious and philosophical inuences
on art were common (and diverse) but never universal.
Modern Chinese aesthetic theory took shape during the
modernisation of China from Empire to republic in early
20th century. Thus thinkers like Kant, Hegel, Marx and
Heidegger have all been incorporated into contemporary
Chinese aesthetic theory, through philosophers like Li
Zehou.[93]

16.3

African aesthetics

The Great Mosque's signature trio of minarets overlooks the central market of Djenn. Unique Malian aesthetic

African art has existed in many forms and styles, with

relatively little inuence from outside Africa. Most of
it followed traditional forms; the aesthetic norms were
handed down orally as well as textually. Sculpture and
performance art are prominent, and abstract and partially
abstracted forms are valued, and were valued long before
inuence from the Western tradition began in earnest.
The Nok culture is testimony to this. The mosque of
Timbuktu shows that specic areas of Africa developed
unique aesthetics.

16.4

Arab aesthetics

11
the demands placed on the secular world to conform to
religious precepts. Islamic art frequently adopts secular
elements and elements that are frowned upon, if not forbidden, by some Islamic theologians.[94] Although the often cited opposition in Islam to the depiction of human
and animal forms holds true for religious art and architecture, in the secular sphere, such representations have
ourished in nearly all Islamic cultures.
The Islamic resistance to the representation of living beings ultimately stems from the belief that the creation
of living forms is unique to God, and it is for this reason that the role of images and image makers has been
controversial. The strongest statements on the subject of
gural depiction are made in the Hadith (Traditions of
the Prophet), where painters are challenged to breathe
life into their creations and threatened with punishment
on the Day of Judgment. The Qur'an is less specic
but condemns idolatry and uses the Arabic term musawwir (maker of forms, or artist) as an epithet for
God. Partially as a result of this religious sentiment, gures in painting were often stylized and, in some cases,
the destruction of gurative artworks occurred. Iconoclasm was previously known in the Byzantine period
and aniconicism was a feature of the Judaic world, thus
placing the Islamic objection to gurative representations
within a larger context. As ornament, however, gures
were largely devoid of any larger signicance and perhaps therefore posed less challenge.[95]
This tendency aected the narrowing eld of artistic
possibility to such forms of art as Arabesque, mosaic,
Islamic calligraphy, and Islamic architecture, as well as
any form of abstraction that can claim the status of nonrepresentational art.
Limited possibilities have been explored by artists as an
outlet to artistic expression, and has been cultivated to
become a positive style and tradition, emphasizing the
decorative function of art, or its religious functions via
non-representational forms such as Geometric patterns,
oral patterns, and arabesques.
Human portrayals can be found in early Islamic cultures
with varying degrees of acceptance by religious authorities. Human representation for the purpose of worship
is uniformly considered idolatry as forbidden in Sharia
law.[96][97]
The calligraphic arts grew out of an eort to devote oneself to the study of the Quran. By patiently transcribing
each word of the text, the writer was made to contemplate the meaning of it. As time passed, these calligraphic
works began to be prized as works of art, growing increasingly elaborate in the illumination and stylizing of
the text. These illuminations were applied to other works
besides the Quran, and it became a respected art form in
and of itself.

Arab art for the last 1400 years has taken place under the
context of Islam and is sometimes referred to as Islamic
art, although many Arab artists throughout time have not
been Muslim. The term Islamic refers not only to the
religion, but to any form of art created by people in an
Islamic culture or in an Islamic context, whether the artist
is Islamic or not. Not all Muslims are in agreement on Arabic is written from right to left, like other Semitic
the use of art in religious observance, the proper place scripts, and consists of 17 characters, which, with the
of art in society, or the relation between secular art and addition of dots placed above or below certain of them,

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provide the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet. Short vowels are not included in the alphabet, being indicated by
signs placed above or below the consonant or long vowel
that they follow. Certain characters may be joined to
their neighbors, others to the preceding one only, and
others to the succeeding one only. The written letters
undergo a slight external change according to their position within a word. When they stand alone or occur
at the end of a word, they ordinarily terminate in a bold
stroke; when they appear in the middle of a word, they
are ordinarily joined to the letter following by a small,
upward curved stroke. With the exception of six letters,
which can be joined only to the preceding ones, the initial and medial letters are much abbreviated, while the
nal form consists of the initial form with a triumphant
ourish. The essential part of the characters, however,
remains unchanged.[98]

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[89] Derek Allan, Art and Time, Cambridge Scholars, 2013

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[74] Consider Clement Greenbergs arguments in On Modernist Painting (1961), reprinted in Aesthetics: A Reader
in Philosophy of Arts.

19 Further reading

[75] Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgment.

[76] Davies, 1991, Carroll, 2000, et al.
[77] Danto, 2003
[78] Goodman,
[79] Novitz, 1992
[80] Brian Massumi, Deleuze, Guattari and the Philosophy of
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Carol Armstrong and Catherine de Zegher (eds.),

Women Artists at the Millennium. Massachusetts:
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Translated by Werner S. Pluhar, Hackett Publishing
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Kelly, Michael (Editor in Chief) (1998) Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press. 4 voll., pp. XVII-521, pp. 555, pp.
536, pp. 572; 2224 total pages; 100 b/w photos;
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E. S. Dallas (1866), The Gay Science, 2 volumes, on

the aesthetics of poetry.
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Stephen Davies (1991), Denitions of Art.
Terry Eagleton (1990), The Ideology of the Aesthetic.
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Evelyn Hatcher (ed.), Art as Culture: An Introduction to the Anthropology of Art. 1999

Alexander J. Kent, Aesthetics: A Lost Cause in

Cartographic Theory?" The Cartographic Journal,
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Sren Kierkegaard (1843), Either/Or, translated by
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Griselda Pollock, Encounters in the Virtual Feminist
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Markand Thakar Looking for the 'Harp' Quartet:
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Rochester Press, 2011.
Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?, Penguin Classics, 1995.
The London Philosophy Study Guide oers many
suggestions on what to read, depending on the students familiarity with the subject: Aesthetics
John M. Valentine, Beginning Aesthetics: An Introduction To The Philosophy of Art. McGraw-Hill,
2006. ISBN 978-0-07-353754-2
von Vacano, Diego, The Art of Power: Machiavelli, Nietzsche and the Making of Aesthetic Political Theory, Lanham MD: Lexington: 2007.
Thomas Wartenberg, The Nature of Art. 2006.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein, Lectures on aesthetics, psychology and religious belief, Oxford, Blackwell,
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Sen, R. K., Aesthetic Enjoyment: Its Background in
Philosophy and Medicine, Calcutta: University of
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Aesthetics at the Indiana Philosophy Ontology
Project
Aesthetics at PhilPapers
Aesthetics entry in the 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
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