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    Aesthetic Theory (German: Ästhetische Theorie) is a book by the German philosopher Theodor Adorno, which was culled from drafts written between 1956 and...
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    century, a significant shift to general aesthetic theory took place which attempted to apply aesthetic theory between various forms of art, including...
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  • Theories of aesthetic response or functional theories of art are in many ways the most intuitive theories of art. At its base, the term "aesthetic" refers...
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  • [1897], pp. 9–13. Tolstoy 1995 [1897], p. 9. Jahn, Gary R. (1975). "The aesthetic theory of Leo Tolstoy's What is Art?". Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism...
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  • Davis Women, Race, and Class Are Prisons Obsolete? Theodor Adorno Aesthetic Theory Negative Dialectics Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer Dialectic of Enlightenment...
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    Aesthetic Theory: Essential Texts is an anthology of the most important texts written on aesthetics and beauty since Plato till nowadays. It is edited...
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    century, a significant shift to general aesthetic theory took place which attempted to apply aesthetic theory between various forms of art, including...
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    critiques of contemporary Western culture. Adorno's posthumously published Aesthetic Theory, which he planned to dedicate to Samuel Beckett, is the culmination...
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    quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual, or artistic. The term especially refers to a greatness beyond...
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    Church theologian Thomas Aquinas for Stephen Dedalus's aesthetic theory. It's been argued that the theory also draws upon Catholicism's central doctrines in...
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  • In music theory and especially in the branch of study called the aesthetics of music, formalism is the concept that a composition's meaning is entirely...
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  • beginnings of a theory of aesthetic experience, and wrote two important essays for Philosophy and Civilization (1931). Dewey's theory is an attempt to...
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  • really is only one valid interpretation for any given piece of art. The aesthetic theory that says people may approach art with different but equally valid...
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    In her book Our Aesthetic Categories, Ngai argues that the Zany, Cute and the Interesting, for all their marginality to aesthetic theory and to genealogies...
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  • Adorno died suddenly in 1969 without having finalised the manuscript of Aesthetic Theory, Gretel Adorno and Adorno's former student Rolf Tiedemann took up the...
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    Guggenheim". Guggenheim. Retrieved 25 January 2018. Carrier, David (2018). Aesthetic Theory, Abstract Art, and Lawrence Carroll. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 64....
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  • demonstrating the persistence of a long-standing aesthetic tradition of ancient India. According to the Rasa theory of the Natya Shastra, entertainment is a desired...
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    on black diaspora performance, cultural studies, and critical and aesthetic theory. Nyong'o received his B.A. from Wesleyan University. He then received...
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    Aestheticism (also known as the aesthetic movement) was an art movement in the late 19th century that valued the appearance of literature, music, fonts...
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    Arthur Schopenhauer's aesthetics (category Theories of aesthetics)
    more profound than science or everyday experience. Schopenhauer's aesthetic theory is introduced in Book 3 of The World as Will and Representation, Vol...
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    tradition was classical aesthetic theory. This theory was derived ultimately from Aristotle; in Renaissance England, however, the theory was better known through...
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  • problems that an aesthetic theory is expected to deal with during its time. This included the evaluation of the Meinongian theory of aesthetic enjoyment and...
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  • to the details of Rand's aesthetic theory. From then until the late 1990s, The Romantic Manifesto and Rand's aesthetic theory in general received little...
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  • The aesthetic ideas underlying absolute music derive from debates over the relative value of what was known in the early years of aesthetic theory as the...
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    social revolution. Adorno (as represented mainly by his posthumous Aesthetic Theory) and Marcuse agreed that this possibility must be realized through...
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  • Baroque aesthetic, such as "conceit' (concetto), "wit" (acutezza, ingegno), and "wonder" (meraviglia), were not fully developed in literary theory until...
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    mysticism, and neo-Kantianism, Benjamin made influential contributions to aesthetic theory, literary criticism, and historical materialism. He was associated...
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    of aesthetic qualities and experiences in Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime (1764). Kant's contribution to aesthetic theory is...
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    autobiography, art criticism, theory, feminism, queerness, sexual violence, the history of the avant-garde, aesthetic theory, philosophy, scholarship, and...
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  • This is a history of aesthetics. The first important contributions to aesthetic theory are usually considered to stem from philosophers in Ancient Greece...
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