Encyclopedia of Aesthetics

Abhinavagupta
Abject
Abstract Expressionism
Abstraction
Philosophical Perspective
Contemporary Perspective
Acoustics
Addison, Joseph
Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund
Survey of Thought
Adorno's Dialectic of Appearance
Adorno and Mimesis
Adorno's Philosophy of Music
Adorno and Kant
Aestheticism
Overview
Philosophical Critique
African Aesthetics
Agamben, Giorgio
Alberti, Leon Battista
Aleatoric Processes
Alembert, Jean Le Rond d'
Alienation, Aesthetic
Alison, Archibald
Allegory
Animal Aesthetics
Animism
Anthropology
Anti-Aesthetic
Anti-Art
Appreciation
Appropriation
Overview
Appropriation Art and Copyright Law
Aquinas, Thomas
Arab Aesthetics
Architecture
Early Greek Aesthetics
Medieval Architecture
Italian Renaissance Aesthetics
Enlightenment Architecture
Modern Overview
Modernism to Postmodernism
Computer-Assisted Design
Architecture and Collectivity
Arendt, Hannah
Aristotle
Survey of Thought
Aristotle on Mimesis
Aristotle on Form and Unity
Reception of Aristotle in Antiquity
Reception of Aristotle in Modernity
Arnheim, Rudolf
Survey of Thought
Dynamics of Art
Arnold, Matthew
Art for Art's Sake
Artifact
Artificial Intelligence
Artist
History of the Concept of the Artist
Sociology of the Artist
Art Market
Art World
Assyro-Babylonian Aesthetics
Attitude
Aesthetic Attitude
Pictorial Attitude
Auerbach, Erich
Augmented Reality
Augustine
Authenticity
Author
Autonomy
Overview
Critique of Autonomy
Autonomy and Its Feminist Critics
Autonomy and Architecture
Avant-Garde
Bachelard, Gaston
Badiou, Alain
Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhailovich
Baroque Aesthetics
Barthes, Roland
Overview
Photography
Bataille, Georges
Baudelaire, Charles
Survey of Thought
Baudelaire and Art
Baudrillard, Jean
Bauhaus
Baumgarten, Alexander Gottlieb
Baxandall, Michael
Bazin, André
Bearden, Romare
Beardsley, Monroe C.
Beattie, 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-Despréaux, Nicolas
Borges, Jorge Luis
Bosanquet, Bernard
Bötticher, Karl Gottlieb Wilhelm
Boulez, Pierre
Bourdieu, Pierre
Survey of Thought
Artistic Field
Bourgeois, Louise
Brecht, Bertolt
Breton, André
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, Hél?ne
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, ?tienne 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-Eug?ne
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, Félix
Gurney, Edmund
Habermas, Jürgen
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 Hölderlin
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
Hölderlin, Johann Christian Friedrich
Holocaust
Home, Henry
Hübsch, 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, S?ren Aabye
Kinaesthesia
Kitsch
Klein, Melanie
Knight, Richard Payne
König, 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
Lukács, György
Lyotard, Jean-François
Magic
Mallarmé, Stéphane
Malraux, André
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
Ranci?re, 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
Sensibilité
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
Valéry, 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
Wölfflin, Heinrich
Wollheim, Richard
Wordsworth, William
World Art
Worringer, Wilhelm
Wright, Frank Lloyd