Glossary of Art Terms. 2014.
Aesthetic emotions — refer to emotions that are felt during aesthetic activity and/or appreciation. These emotions may be of the everyday variety (such as fear, wonder or sympathy) or may be specific to aesthetic contexts. Examples of the latter include the sublime,… … Wikipedia
aesthetic — a. pertaining to beauty or appreciation of beauty, or to pure sensation; n. science of aesthetic experience. ♦ aestheticism, n. Philosophy, doctrine that principle of beauty is alone fundamental. ♦ aesthetics, n. department of phil.… … Dictionary of difficult words
aesthetic illusion — Also written as esthetic illusion. Both terms are indebted to the Greek verb aisthanesthai (to notice, to perceive). They are used to denote the subjective experience that the content of a work of art is real. More specifically, they are used… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
aesthetic — aes|thet|ic1 esthetic [i:sˈθetık, es US es ] adj [Date: 1800 1900; : Greek; Origin: aisthetikos, from aisthanesthai to experience with the senses ] connected with beauty and the study of beauty ▪ From an esthetic point of view, it s a nice design … Dictionary of contemporary English
Art as Experience — (1934) is John Dewey s major writing on aesthetics, originally delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard (1932). Dewey s aesthetics have been found useful in a number of disciplines, including the new media.Dewey had previously… … Wikipedia
religious experience — Introduction specific experiences such as wonder at the infinity of the cosmos, the sense of awe and mystery in the presence of the holy, feelings of dependence on a divine power or an unseen order, the sense of guilt and anxiety… … Universalium
Timeline of Aesthetic Realism — This is a timeline of notable events in the history of the philosophy of aesthetic realism.*1902 Birth of Eli Siegel *1922 3 Publication of The Equality of Man and The Scientific Criticism in The Modern Quarterly . They were two of the first… … Wikipedia
Cool (aesthetic) — Uncool redirects here. For the Bumblefoot album, see Uncool (album). Something regarded as cool is an admired aesthetic of attitude, behavior, comportment, appearance and style, influenced by and a product of the Zeitgeist. Because of the varied… … Wikipedia
Openness to experience — is one of the domains which are used to describe human personality in the Five Factor Model[1][2] Openness involves active imagination, aesthetic sensitivity, attentiveness to inner feelings, preference for variety, and intellectual curiosity.[3] … Wikipedia
Black Aesthetic movement — or Black Arts movement Period of artistic and literary development among black Americans in the 1960s and early 70s. Based on the cultural politics of black nationalism, the movement sought to create art forms capable of expressing the varieties… … Universalium
