Encyclopedia of Aesthetics

James ; Beauty ; Overview ; Classical Concepts ; Medieval Concepts ; Beauty and Love ; Beckett, Samuel ; Bell, Arthur Clive Howard ; Benjamin, Walter ; Survey of Thought ; Benjamin and Surrealism ; Benjamin's Writing Style ; Berenson, Bernard ; Bergson, Henri-Louis ; Berkeley, George ; Beuys, Joseph ; Black Aesthetics ; Overview ; Black Aesthetics and the Black Arts Movement ; Black Mountain College ; Blair, Hugh ; Blanchot, Maurice ; Bloch, Ernst ; Bloomsbury Group ; Blumenberg, Hans ; Body ; Boileau-Despreaux, Nicolas ; Borges, Jorge Luis ; Bosanquet, Bernard ; Botticher, Karl Gottlieb Wilhelm ; Boulez, Pierre ; Bourdieu, Pierre ; Survey of Thought ; Artistic Field ; Bourgeois, Louise ; Brecht, Bertolt ; Breton, Andre ; Buddhist Aesthetics ; Bullough, Edward ; Burckhardt, Jacob ; Burke, Edmund ; Byzantine Aesthetics ; Cage, John ; Camp ; Canon ; Overview ; Whither the Art Historical Canon? ; Caribbean Aesthetics ; Caricature ; Cartography ; Cassirer, Ernst ; Cavell, Stanley ; Survey of Thought ; Cavell and Film ; Children's Art ; Chinese Aesthetics ; Overview ; Painting Theory and Criticism ; Aesthetics in Contemporary China ; Cixous, Helene ; Classicism ; Cochin, Charles-Nicolas ; Cognitive Science ; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor ; Collage ; Overview ; Collage and Poetry ; "The Pasted-Paper Revolution" Revisited ; Collectivism ; Collingwood, Robin George ; Color ; Color in the Arts ; Color Science ; Comedy ; Comics ; Commodity ; Comparative Aesthetics ; Computer Art ; Computing, Aesthetic ; Conceptual Art ; Overview ; History of the Unformed ; Images and Desire ; Conceptual Art and Philosophy ; Conceptualism ; Overview ; Latin American Conceptualism ; Moscow Conceptualism ; Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de ; Constructivism ; Contemporary Art ; Postmodern Transformation of Art ; Aesthetics of Contemporary Art ; Ontology ; Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish ; Cooper, Anthony Ashley ; Copyright ; Cousin, Victor ; Craft ; Craig, Edward Gordon ; Creativity ; Overview ; Explaining Creativity ; Psychological and Psychiatric Investigation ; Criticism ; Ancient Criticism ; Art Criticism ; Cultural Criticism ; Dance Criticism ; Literary Criticism ; Formalism in Art Criticism ; Croce, Benedetto ; Cubism ; Cultural Studies ; Cunningham, Merce ; Curating ; Overview ; New Media ; Intercultural Curating ; Cyberspace ; Dadaism ; Dahlhaus, Carl ; Damisch, Hubert ; Dance ; Overview ; Contemporary Thought ; Dance Studies ; Authenticity in Dance ; Dance and Film ; Contemporary Dance ; Da??in ; Danto, Arthur Coleman ; Survey of Thought ; Danto's End of Art Thesis ; Daoist Aesthetics ; Data Visualization ; Death ; Decadence ; Decolonizing Aesthetics ; Decorative Arts ; Definition of Art ; Delacroix, Ferdinand-Victor-Eugene ; Deleuze, Gilles ; Overview ; Deleuze and Film ; Depiction ; Depression ; Derrida, Jacques ; Survey of Thought ; Derrida and Deconstruction ; Derrida and Literature ; Derrida and Kant ; Design ; Overview ; History and Theory ; Destruction of Art ; Dewey, John ; Survey of Thought ; Theory of Expression ; Experience and the Organic Unity of Artworks ; Dewey and Art ; Dialogical Art ; Diaspora Criticism ; Dickie, George ; Diderot, Denis ; Survey of Thought ; Diderot and the Salon ; Difficulty, Aesthetics of ; Digital Media ; Digitization ; Dilthey, Wilhelm ; Disability Aesthetics ; Discourse ; Disgust ; Disinterestedness ; Drawing ; Dryden, John ; Du Bos, Jean-Baptiste ; Duchamp, Marcel ; Survey of Art ; En-Gendering of the Artistic Subject ; Dufrenne, Mikel ; Durand, Jean-Nicolas-Louis ; Eco, Umberto ; Eco-Art and Criticism ; Ecphrasis ; Education, Aesthetic ; Einstein, Carl ; Eisenstein, Sergei Mikhailovich ; Electronic Arts ; Electronic Music ; Visual Arts ; Embodiment ; Overview ; Embodied Interaction ; Emerson, Ralph Waldo ; Emotions ; Overview ; Emotions and Literature ; Empathy ; Empirical Aesthetics ; Environmental Aesthetics ; Overview ; Contemporary ; Epistemology ; Essentialism ; Overview ; Anti-Essentialism ; Ethnomusicology ; Evaluation ; Aesthetic Evaluation ; Cultural Evaluation ; Everyday Aesthetics ; Evolution ; Exhibition ; Experimentalism ; Music ; Film and Video ; Expressionism ; Expression Theory of Art ; Fanon, Frantz ; Farabi, Muhammad al- ; Fashion ; Dress in the World ; La Haute Couture ; Fashion as Art ; Fashion and Philosophy ; Fechner, Gustav Theodor ; Feeling ; Feminism ; Feminisms and Tradition ; Critique of Feminist Aesthetics ; Feminist Art History ; Fiction ; Overview ; Modern Literary Account of the Fictive ; Film ; Motion Pictures ; Visual Literacy ; Film and Documentary ; Film Noir ; Film Theory ; Film and Ideology ; Fluxus ; Folk Art ; Food ; Forgery ; Formalism ; Overview ; Formalism in Analytic Aesthetics ; Formalism as Art History ; Foucault, Michel ; French Aesthetics ; Eighteenth-Century French Aesthetics ; Contemporary Painting Theory ; Freud, Sigmund ; Survey of Thought ; Pathography ; Freud and Literature ; Freud and Music ; Fry, Roger Eliot ; Frye, Northrop ; Futurism ; Gadamer, Hans-Georg ; Survey of Thought ; Gadamer and Aesthetics ; Gadamer and the Truth of Art ; Gardens ; Overview ; Gardens as Art ; Gay Aesthetics ; Gaze ; Gell, Alfred ; Genius ; Overview ; Genius and Feminism ; Gentile, Giovanni ; Geoaesthetics ; Geography ; Gerard, Alexander ; Gesamtkunstwerk ; Giedion, Sigfried ; Gift ; Glass ; Glass Art ; Aesthetics of Glass ; Globalization ; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von ; Gombrich, Ernst Hans Josef ; Goodman, Nelson ; Survey of Thought ; Art in Action ; Contemporary Legacy ; Gothic Aesthetics ; Gottsched, Johann Christoph ; Gramsci, Antonio ; Graphic Design ; Graphic Novel ; Greenberg, Clement ; Grotesque ; Guattari, Felix ; Gurney, Edmund ; Habermas, Jurgen ; Habit ; Haiku ; Hamann, Johann Georg ; Hanslick, Eduard ; Haptic Aesthetics ; Harlem Renaissance ; Hauser, Arnold ; Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich ; Survey of Thought ; Hegel on the Historicity of Art ; Hegel's Conception of the End of Art ; Heidegger, Martin ; Survey of Thought ; "The Origin of the Work of Art" and Its Legacy ; Heidegger's Confrontation with Aesthetics ; Heidegger's Displacement of the Concept of Art ; Philosophical Heritage in Heidegger's Concept of Art ; Heidegger and Holderlin ; Hellenistic Aesthetics ; Visual Arts ; Philosophers and Literary Critics ; Helmholtz, Hermann von ; Herder, Johann Gottfried ; Hermeneutics ; Herz, Marcus ; Heydenreich, Karl Heinrich ; Historicism ; Historicism and Philosophy ; New Historicism in Literary Theory ; Historicism in Art History ; Historicism and Architecture ; Hogarth, William ; Holderlin, Johann Christian Friedrich ; Holocaust ; Home, Henry ; Hubsch, Heinrich ; Hume, David ; Survey of Thought ; "Of the Standard of Taste" ; Theory of Beauty ; Humor ; Husserl, Edmund Gustav Albrecht ; Hutcheson, Francis ; Hypertext ; Ibn Rushd ; Ibn Sina ; Icon ; Iconoclasm ; Iconoclasm and Iconophobia ; Iconoclasm in Early Modern Britain and Colonial New England ; Iconography and Iconology ; Ideas, Aesthetic ; Ideology ; Imagery ; Visual Imagery in Reading ; Reading Images ; Image Theory ; Imagination ; The Imaginary ; Contemporary Thought ; Phenomenological Accounts ; Impressionism ; Improvisation ; Overview ; Jazz Improvisation ; Experimental Music ; Indian Aesthetics ; Overview ; Indian Theories of Interpretation ; Indifference ; Indigenous Aesthetics ; Ineffability ; Information Theory ; Ingarden, Roman Witold ; Insane, Art of the ; Installation Art ; Institutional Theory of Art ; Intention ; Overview ; Intentional Fallacy ; Interpretation ; Interpretation in Art ; Analytic Interpretation ; Social Space of Interpretation ; Irigaray, Luce ; Irony ; Isenberg, Arnold ; Islamic Aesthetics ; Overview ; Islamic Music ; Visual Experience in Islamic Culture ; Modern and Contemporary Architecture in West Asia and North Africa ; Islamic Art History ; Jameson, Fredric ; Japanese Aesthetics ; Overview ; Kire and Iki ; Jazz ; Jokes ; Judd, Donald ; Kahn, Louis Isadore ; Kandinsky, Wassily ; Kant, Immanuel ; Survey of Thought ; Kant on Beauty ; Kant on the Sublime ; Kant on Nature and Art ; History of Kantian Aesthetics ; Kant and Art History ; Kant and Hermeneutics ; Feminism and Kantian Aesthetics ; Kant, Duchamp, and Judgment ; Katharsis ; Kierkegaard, Soren Aabye ; Kinaesthesia ; Kitsch ; Klein, Melanie ; Knight, Richard Payne ; Konig, Johann Ulrich von ; Kracauer, Siegfried ; Kristeva, Julia ; Lacan, Jacques Marie ; Survey of Thought ; Visual and Literary Arts ; Landscape ; Landscape from the Ancients to the Seventeenth Century ; Landscape from the Eighteenth Century to the Present ; Landscape Architecture ; Landscape Assessment ; Langer, Susanne Knauth ; Latin American Aesthetics ; Latin American Aesthetics and Modernity ; Twentieth-Century Latin American Aesthetics ; Contemporary Latin American Aesthetics ; Contemporary Cuban Aesthetics ; Lavater, Johann Caspar ; Law and Art ; Overview ; Cultural Property ; Government-Funded Art and the First Amendment ; Censorship ; Trademarks and Art ; Law and Literature ; Aesthetic Judgment in Law ; Intellectual Property ; Leavis, Frank Raymond ; Le Corbusier ; Lee, Vernon ; Leonardo da Vinci ; Lesbian Aesthetics ; Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim ; Levinas, Emmanuel ; Literature ; Literary Aesthetics ; What is Literature? ; Literature and Cognition ; Locke, Alain Leroy ; Longinus ; Lotze, Rudolph Hermann ; Luhmann, Niklas ; Lukacs, Gyorgy ; Lyotard, Jean-Francois ; Magic ; Mallarme, Stephane ; Malraux, Andre ; Mannheim, Karl ; Marcuse, Herbert ; Margolis, Joseph ; Marin, Louis ; Maritain, Jacques ; Marx, Karl Heinrich ; Marxism ; Overview ; Marxism and Materialism ; Masculinity ; Mass Art ; Mathematics ; Mattheson, Johann ; McLuhan, Marshall ; Meaning ; Medieval Aesthetics ; Medium ; Meier, Georg Friedrich ; Melancholy ; Mendelssohn, Moses ; Merleau-Ponty, Maurice ; Overview ; Contemporary Art ; Meta-Aesthetics ; Metaphor ; Overview ; Metaphor and Philosophy of Language ; Metaphor and Nonverbal Arts ; Metaphor and Art History ; Derrida and de Man on Metaphor ; Metaphor in Criticism and Aesthetic Description ; Metonymy ; Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig ; Migratory Aesthetics ; Mimesis ; Minimal Art ; Models, Artists' ; Modernism ; Overview ; Modernity and Tradition in Architecture ; Modern Music ; Modern Dance ; Modern Literature ; Africa ; China ; India ; Mondrian, Piet ; Monuments ; Overview ; Twentieth-Century Countermonuments ; Morality ; Moral Rights of Art ; Overview ; Moral Rights Laws ; Moritz, Karl Philipp ; Morris, William ; Multimedia ; Museums ; Museums and Aesthetics ; Museology ; Sociological Perspectives on Museums ; Music ; Musil, Robert ; Nancy, Jean-Luc ; Narrative ; Internal Narratives of Art History ; Narrative and the Visual and Literary Arts ; National Endowment for the Arts ; Overview ; Controversies ; Nature ; Nature and Artistic Creation ; Japanese Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature ; Contemporary Thought ; Negritude ; Neuroaesthetics ; Neuroscience ; Art ; New Criticism ; Newman, Barnett ; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm ; Survey of Thought ; Nietzcsche, Schopenhauer, and Disinterestedness ; Nietzsche's Literary Style ; Nietzsche and Visuality ; Nietzsche on Tragedy ; Noise ; Notation ; Musical Notation ; Dance Notation ; Novalis ; Novel ; Obscenity ; Aesthetics in Obscenity Law ; Obscenity in Art ; Ontology of Art ; Historical Ontology ; Analytic Ontology ; Ontology of Dance ; Ontology of Architecture ; Opera ; Originality ; Originality in the Visual Arts ; Originality in Literature ; Origins of Aesthetics ; Overview ; History of Aisth?sis ; Theological Origins of Aesthetics ; Ornament ; Outsider Art ; Panofsky, Erwin ; Pareyson, Luigi ; Parody ; Participatory Art ; Pastiche ; Pater, Walter Horatio ; Paul, Jean ; Peirce, Charles Sanders ; Pepper, Stephen ; Perception ; Aesthetics of Perception ; Picture Perception ; Music Perception ; Performance ; Performance Art ; Overview ; Feminist Performance Art ; Performativity ; Personification of Art ; Perspective ; Overview ; Psychology of Perspective ; Phenomenology ; Photography ; Overview ; Daguerreotype ; Photography and Technology ; Catachresis ; Chance ; Documentary Photography ; Picasso, Pablo ; Picturesque ; Piles, Roger de ; Plato ; Plato and the Arts ; Plato on Mim?sis ; Plato's Use of Poetry ; Plato on the Effects of Art ; Plato and Modern Aesthetics ; Play ; Pleasure ; Plotinus ; Poetics ; Overview ; Avant-Garde ; Poetry ; Politics ; Overview ; Politicized Art ; Aestheticized Politics ; AIDS, Aesthetics, and Activism ; Pop Art ; Pope, Alexander ; Popular Culture ; Pornography ; Portraiture ; History ; Contemporary Portraiture ; Postcolonialism ; Postdramatic Theater ; Postmodernism ; Overview ; Postmodern Dance ; Postmodern American Poetry ; Poststructuralism ; Poussin, Nicolas ; Poverty ; Pragmatism ; Prague School ; Pre-Columbian Aesthetics ; Preservation ; Pretty ; Price, Uvedale ; Priestley, Joseph ; Primitivism ; Proust, Marcel ; Psychology of Art ; Public Art ; Qualities, Aesthetic ; Race ; Ranciere, Jaques ; Raphael, Max ; Rasa ; Realism ; Realism and Aesthetics ; Pictorial Realism ; Reception Aesthetics ; Reid, Thomas ; Reinhardt, Ad ; Relational Aesthetics ; Relativism ; Religion ; Overview ; Religion and Art ; Art of the Reformation ; Renaissance Italian Aesthetics ; Representation ; Reynolds, Joshua ; Rhetoric ; Overview ; Exemplarity ; Richards, Ivor Armstrong ; Ricoeur, Paul ; Riegl, Alois ; Ritual ; Robotics ; Rock Music ; Roman Aesthetics ; Romanticism ; Philosophy and Literature ; Visual Arts ; Music ; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel ; Rousseau, Jean-Jacques ; Ruins ; Ruskin, John ; Russian Aesthetics ; Religious Aesthetics ; Russian Formalism ; Socialist Realism ; Sanskrit Aesthetics ; Santayana, George ; Sartre, Jean-Paul ; Schaeffer, Pierre Henri Marie ; Schapiro, Meyer ; Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von ; Schenker, Heinrich ; Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von ; Schinkel, Karl Friedrich ; Schlegel, August Wilhelm von ; Schlegel, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von ; Schmarsow, August ; Schoenberg, Arnold Franz Walter ; Schopenhauer, Arthur ; Survey of Thought ; Tragedy and the Sublime ; Science ; Overview ; Contemporary Thought ; Sculpture ; Overview ; Classical Sculpture ; Modern Sculpture ; Sculpture since 1960 ; Semiotics ; Semiotics as a Theory of Art ; Semiology of Music ; Semiotics and Architecture ; Semper, Gottfried ; Sensation ; Sensibilite ; Sentimental ; Sexuality ; Shelley, Percy ; Sibley, Frank ; Sidney, Philip ; Silence ; Simmel, Georg ; Situationist Aesthetics ; Smith, Adam ; Smithson, Robert ; Sociology of Art ; Solger, Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand ; Sontag, Susan ; Sorel, Charles ; Sound ; Sound Art ; Spectacle ; Sports ; Stein, Gertrude ; Steinberg, Leo ; Stokes, Adrian Durham ; Stravinsky, Igor Fedorovich ; Street Art and Graffiti ; Structuralism ; Style ; Sublime ; The Sublime from Longinus to Montesquieu ; The Sublime from Burke to the Present ; Feminine Sublime ; Sublime and the Visual Arts ; Suger ; Sulzer, Johann Georg ; Suprematism ; Surrealism ; Surrealism and the Visual Arts ; Surrealism and Literature ; Sustainability ; Symbolism ; French Symbolism ; Russian Symbolism ; Synaesthesia ; Systems Theory ; Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe ; Taste ; Early History ; Modern and Recent History ; Television ; Text ; Textile ; Theater ; Theological Aesthetics ; Theories of Art ; Theory, History of ; Thing ; Tolstoy, Leo Nikolaevich ; Tragedy ; Greek Tragedy ; Freud on Tragedy ; Modern and Contemporary Tragedy ; Transdisciplinary Aesthetics ; Trauma ; Trilling, Lionel ; Truth ; Ugliness ; Unconscious ; Universals ; Utopia ; Ut Pictura Poesis ; Valery, Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules ; Value ; Vasari, Giorgio ; Venturi, Robert, and Denise Scott Brown ; Vico, Giovanni Battista ; Video ; Video Games ; Virtual Reality ; Visual Culture ; Visual Studies ; Wackenroder, Wilhelm Heinrich ; Wagner, Richard ; Walton, Kendall ; War ; Warburg, Aby Moritz ; Warhol, Andy ; Wartofsky, Marx W. ; Weitz, Morris ; Wilde, Oscar ; Williams, Raymond ; Winckelmann, Johann Joachim ; Wine ; Winnicott, Donald Woods ; Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann ; Survey of Thought ; Reception of Wittgenstein ; Wittgenstein and Literary Theory ; Wittkower, Rudolf ; Wolfflin, Heinrich ; Wollheim, Richard ; Wordsworth, William ; World Art ; Worringer, Wilhelm ; Wright, Frank Lloyd