Outline of aesthetics

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?
Aesthetics can be described as all of the following:
 * 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

 * 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

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

Aesthetics and art movements

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

Aesthetics by time and location

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

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

Ancient

 * Plato
 * Aristotle
 * Plotinus
 * Augustine

Pre-20th Century

 * 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

 * 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
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