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.

What type of thing is an aesthetic?[edit]

Aesthetics can be described as all of the following:^[1]

• Branch of philosophy –
  • the philosophical study of beauty
    • the sublime
    • Aesthetic judgments
    • Aesthetic taste
  • the philosophy of art
    • Definitions of art
    • Value of art
    • Attitudes toward art

Related academic areas[edit]

• Applied aesthetics
• Architecture
• Art
• Arts criticism
• Gastronomy
• Aesthetics of nature
• History of painting
• Painting
• Philosophy of film
• Aesthetic medicine
  • Aesthetic dentistry
  • Plastic surgery
• Aesthetics of music
• Philosophy of music
• Theory of painting
• Poetry
• Psychological aesthetics
• Aesthetics of science
• Sculpture
• Theological aesthetics

History of aesthetics[edit]

• History of aesthetics
  • History of aesthetics (pre-20th-century)

Aesthetics and art movements[edit]

• Classicism
• Romanticism
• Historicism
• Marxist aesthetics
• Modernism
  • Symbolism
• Postmodernism
  • Psychoanalytic theory

Aesthetics by time and location[edit]

• African aesthetic
  • Itutu
• Ancient aesthetics
• Indian aesthetics
  • Rasa
• Internet aesthetic
• Japanese aesthetics
  • Iki
• Medieval aesthetics

Concepts in aesthetics[edit]

• Aesthetic emotions
• Art manifesto
• Art object
• Avant-garde
• Beauty
• Boring
• Camp
• Comedy
• Cool
• Creativity
• Cute
• Disgusting
• Ecstasy
• Elegance
• Entertainment
• Ephemerality
• Eroticism
• Fun
• Gaze
• Harmony
• Humour
• Interpretation
• Judgement
• Kitsch
• Literary merit
• Lo-fi
• Mathematics and art
• Mathematical beauty
• Perception
• Picturesque
• Pretentious
• Rasa
• Style
• Sublime
• Taste
• Tragedy

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Philosophers of art and aestheticians[edit]

Ancient[edit]

• Plato
• Aristotle
• Plotinus
• Augustine

Pre-20th Century[edit]

• Francis Hutcheson
• David Hume
• Adam Smith
• Immanuel Kant
• Edmund Burke
• Johann Gottfried Herder
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Friedrich Schiller
• G. W. F. Hegel
• Arthur Schopenhauer
• Friedrich Nietzsche

Contemporary[edit]

• Theodor W. Adorno
• Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
• Clive Bell
• Walter Benjamin
• Bernard Bosanquet
• Edward Bullough
• R. G. Collingwood
• Arthur Danto
• John Dewey
• George Dickie
• Hubert Dreyfus
• Curt John Ducasse
• Thierry de Duve
• Roger Fry
• Nelson Goodman
• Martin Heidegger
• Paul Klee
• Susanne Langer
• Theodor Lipps
• György Lukács
• Jean-François Lyotard
• Joseph Margolis
• Jacques Maritain
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty
• Thomas Munro
• José Ortega y Gasset
• Dewitt H. Parker
• Stephen Pepper
• David Prall
• I. A. Richards
• George Santayana
• Irving Singer
• Richard Wollheim
• more ...

See also[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• 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