Essays on Aesthetics

Anh Nguyen _ PS# 1335314 Prof. Voss / PHIL 1361 / MWF 10-11am Museum Assignment- Museum of Fine Art Houston / OCT 07th, 2016 Aesthetic Sentiment and Judgement According to David Hume, a great philosopher in 18th century, “Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.” As a result, “good art” is the judgement of individual base on their positive sentiment toward an artwork, and that is called the taste of art. Besides, David Hume also believes there is something will make an artwork

Journal 2 (Truth) Introduction Aesthetics and truth are interlinked as one induces the other. Aesthetics are the philosophy of taste and beauty and vary from person to person. These determine the varying realities and truths for an individual. The abilities of a person to identify beauty in things differ from another and this is why truth also varies among people as it depends upon the notions and conceptions expressed in terms of assertions. What is Cartesian Aesthetics and how did/does it affect design

This paper examines the role of aesthetics in omnichannel user experience by surveying existing research done in the fields of design, human-computer interaction (HCI), informatics, and cognitive psychology. Aesthetics are one of many important factors in HCI and research shows that aesthetics can significantly affect perception, cognition, and usability for computer systems, websites, and user interfaces. First, the paper identifies the components of aesthetics and their role in user experience

The "Aesthetic Movement" refers to the birth of principles which emphasised the element of art in the designs of metalwork, woodwork, ceramics, glass, furniture, textiles, wallpapers, books etc. We will only touch on a few examples. The movement incorporated both exotic and historical influences. It is widely agreed upon that the roots of the Aesthetic Movement lie in the reaction to Industrialisation (Nguyen, 2002). It is important to consider the foundation of The Aesthetic Movement, which is

trusts he can demonstrate that aesthetic judgment isn't on a very basic level unique in relation to customary hypothetical discernment of nature, and he trusts he can demonstrate that aesthetic judgment has a profound likeness to moral judgment. For these two reasons, Kant claims he can exhibit that the physical and moral universes – and the rationalities and types of felt that present them – are perfect, as well as bound together. Kant also goes on to explain Aesthetic judgment along these lines includes

Wonder is an aesthetic emotion. Aesthetic emotions are emotions that are felt during aesthetic activity or appreciation. These emotions may be of the everyday variety (such as fear, wonder or sympathy) or may be specific to aesthetic contexts. The emotion usually constitutes only a part of the overall aesthetic experience, but may play a more or less definitive function for that state. 2.2.1. Aesthetic Experiences Aesthetic experience is an exceptional state of mind that is qualitatively distinct

and Distance in Modernist Aesthetics In his essay “On the Origins of ‘Aesthetic Disinterestedness’” Jerome Stolnitz describes how aesthetic criticism began with Lord Shaftesbury’s idea of “the virtuous man as a spectator, devoted to ‘the very survey and contemplation’ of beauty in manners and morals, the initial ‘practical’ significance of ‘disinterested’ is supplanted altogether by the perceptual’,” a definition that would eventually grow from an ethical one to an aesthetic one (133). While much of

Shashikant Dr. Prashanta Chakravarty M.A. English (I Semester) 2nd November 2015 The Aesthetics of Kant and Hegel The theories of art put forward by Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831) have long been seen to represent two rival positions which nonetheless arise from a distinctive tradition of German philosophy. In both cases, a concern with problems of art and beauty represents only one part of their respective philosophical systems

An Aesthetics Of Aging Recall, reader if ever in the mountains a mist has caught you, through which you could not see except as moles do through skin … Dante, Comedy1 ARGUMENT: THE RELEASE FROM THE BODILY EGO Many recent studies on visual culture highlight the representation of the body in photography as a signifier of social constructions. Photography however has always played an important part in the construction of the subject, a perspective that I suggest in what follows, one that

Abstract Aesthetics is an esoteric subject but manages to be appealing to many readers. Aesthetics are a form of philosophy which deals with nature, beauty, art, and taste and appreciation for truly beautiful things. From art aesthetics to, aesthetic judgment, normativity in aesthetics et cetera et cetera. Aesthetics in general have been around for centuries. The most significant figures in the aesthetic tear of philosophy are figures such as Plato, Emmanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche