Æsthetics
Nature of beauty, art, and taste
Creation and appreciation of beauty
Scientific sensory or sensori-emotional values
Sentiment and taste judgement
Critical reflection on art (culture and nature)
Factors of æsthetics
Information
Concept / meme
Any kind of ordered (sequenced) event that affects the cultural or natural state of a dynamic system.
Reception and Retransmission
Quantity of shared audience-performer heritage
Receiving information on cultural or natural system and retransmit that information.
Reception of the meaning of a specific art, audience have a shared cultural background to interpret the cultural or nature of the work.
Concept spread through the behaviors that they generate in the audience.
Concepts which propagate less prolifically become extinct.
Concepts the survive, spread and evolve.
Relational
Cultural quantity of inter-relational and social context
Framework to understand the cultural or natural system in such a way that the positions and other properties are meaningful relative to each other
Ideological apparatus produces society
- Social work environment
- User-friendly interactivity
- Performer-audience community
- DIY (do-it-yourself) practices
Shared inter-subjective practices, theoretical and practical, which have a collective meaning
Performance
An cultural or natural event of one group's conduct, the performer(s), for another group, the audience.
Phenomenology
The experiential aspect of a cultural or natural system in terms consistent with the orientation of materials and their sensory properties.
Conceptualization
Concept (or idea) of cultural or natural system take precedence over traditional concerns
Process
Set of cultural or natural system procedures (steps) and decisions in state conversion (process) from one form (the beginning) to another form (the destination).
Operationalization
Fuzzy process concept to understand the cultural or natural system's processes in terms of empirical observations.
Operations definitions avoid defining artwork, cultural and natural processes in terms of some intrinsic essence.
Terms of the cultural or natural system in terms of the operations that clearly distinguish or measure it.
Set of processes of checking that a product, service, or system which meets specifications and that it fulfills presence and quantity.
External articles
Websites
- Charles Tucker, The Aesthetic Compass
Other
- Bascom, John. Aesthetics: Or, the Science of Beauty. Boston: Crosby, 1867
- Forbes, Avary W. H. The Science of Beauty: An Analytical Inquiry into the Laws of Æsthetics. London: Trübner & Co, 1881
- Bosanquet, Bernard. A History of Aesthetic. London: S. Sonnenschein, 1904
- Francis, René. Egyptian aesthetics. Open Court Pub. Co., 1912
- Parker, De W. H. The Principles of Aesthetics. Boston: Silver, Burdett and Co, 1920
- Hohendahl, Peter Uwe. Introduction to Reception Aesthetics. New German Critique 10 (1977): 29-63.
- Jauss, Hans R. Toward an Aesthetic of Reception. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1981.
- Bourriaud, Nicolas. Relational Aesthetics. Dijon: Les Presses du réel, 2004
- Davies, Stephen. A Companion to Aesthetics. Chichester, U.K: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.