Encyclopedia - Aesthetics: Encyclopedia - Aesthetics
Aesthetics (also esthetics and æsthetics) is the subfield of philosophy concerning beauty and art. An aesthetic (also esthetic and æsth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesthetics: Encyclopedia Ii - Aesthetics - Aesthetics In Engineering
Aesthetics - Industrial Design. Beyond providing functional characteristics, designers heed many aesthetic qualities to improve the mar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesthetics: Encyclopedia Ii - Aesthetics - Aesthetics In The Arts
Aesthetics - Visual arts. The field of aesthetics has enjoyed a rebirth in recent years. Modern art, particularly post-WWII up through ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesthetics: Encyclopedia Ii - Aesthetics - Aesthetics In Engineering
Aesthetics - Industrial design. Beyond providing functional characteristics, designers heed many aesthetic qualities to improve the mar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesthetics: Encyclopedia Ii - Aesthetics - Aesthetics In The Sciences
Aesthetics - Information technology. The push to make all aspects of information technology as user-friendly as possible has led to a n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesthetics: Encyclopedia Ii - Aesthetics - Aesthetics In The Arts
Aesthetics - Visual arts. The field of aesthetics has enjoyed a rebirth in recent years. Modern art, particularly post-WWII up through ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesthetics: Encyclopedia Ii - Aesthetics - Aesthetics In The Sciences
Aesthetics - Information Technology. The push to make all aspects of information technology as user-friendly as possible has led to a n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesthetic Realism: Encyclopedia - Aesthetic Realism
Aesthetic Realism is the philosophy founded by the American poet and critic Eli Siegel in 1941. Its primary teachings are: Beauty in art...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesthetic Completion: Encyclopedia - Aesthetic Completion
Aesthetic completion is the achievement of an aesthetic's fullest expression. Aesthetic completion can be seen as the measure of dissonan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Beauty: Encyclopedia - Beauty
Beauty is the phenomenon of the experience of pleasure, through the perception of balance and proportion of stimulus. It involves the cog...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aztec Philosophy: Encyclopedia - Aztec Philosophy
Aztec philosophy was the school of philosophy developed by the Aztec Empire. The Aztecs had a well developed school of philosophy, perhap...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesthetics: Encyclopedia Ii - Aesthetics - Aesthetics In History And Philosophy
Thinkers and sages over the world have pondered beauty and art for millennia, but the subject was formally distinguished as an independen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Critique Of Judgment: Encyclopedia - Critique Of Judgment
The Critique of Judgment (Kritik der Urteilskraft, 1790), also known as the third critique, is a philosophical work by Immanuel Kant. Cri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Taste: Encyclopedia - Taste
Taste is one of the most common and fundamental of the senses of animals. It is the direct detection of chemical composition, usually thr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wabi-sabi: Encyclopedia - Wabi-sabi
Wabi-sabi (in Kanji: 侘寂) represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic. It is difficult to explain wabi-sabi in Western...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kenosis: Encyclopedia - Kenosis
Kenosis is a Greek word for emptiness, which is used as a theological term. As an ancient Greek word, κένωσις kénōsis means an ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Birth Of Tragedy: Encyclopedia - The Birth Of Tragedy
The Birth of Tragedy (Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik, 1872) is a 19th Century work of philosophy by Friedrich Nietzsch...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Composting Toilet: Encyclopedia - Composting Toilet
Composting toilets use biological processes to deal with the disposal and processing of human excrement into organic compost material. Co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesthetics: Encyclopedia Ii - Aesthetics - Aesthetics In History And Philosophy
Thinkers and sages over the world have pondered beauty and art for millennia, but the subject was formally distinguished as an independen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesthetics Of Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Aesthetics Of Music - History
In the eighteenth century, music was considered to be so far outside the realm of aesthetic theory (then conceived of in visual terms) th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Schopenhauer's Aesthetics: Encyclopedia Ii - Schopenhauer's Aesthetics - Influence
In proposing that art could offer deliverance from the Will, Schopenhauer elevated art from mere artisanry or decoration, and held that a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesthetics Of Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Aesthetics Of Music - Bad Music
Simon Frith (2004, p.17-9) argues that, "'bad music' is a necessary concept for musical pleasure, for musical aesthetics." He distinguish...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Schopenhauer's Aesthetics: Encyclopedia Ii - Schopenhauer's Aesthetics - The Schopenhauerian Genius
Schopenhauer believed that while all people were in thrall to the Will, the quality and intensity of their subjection differed. The aesth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Schopenhauer's Aesthetics: Encyclopedia Ii - Schopenhauer's Aesthetics - An Extension Of His Philosophy
For Schopenhauer, the Will is an aimless desire to perpetuate itself, the mainspring of life. Desire engendered by the Will is the source...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Beauty: Encyclopedia Ii - Beauty - Beauty And Aesthetics
Understanding the nature and meaning of beauty is one of the key themes in the philosophical discipline known as aesthetics. The composer...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesthetic Realism: Encyclopedia Ii - Aesthetic Realism - Aesthetic Realism Foundation
The Aesthetic Realism Foundation is the school in New York City that teaches the Aesthetic Realism philosophy. It was founded by students...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesthetic Realism: Encyclopedia Ii - Aesthetic Realism - Aesthetic Realism: The Philosophy
Aesthetic Realism is based on the idea that reality, or the world, has a structure that is beautiful—like the structure of a successful...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesthetic Realism: Encyclopedia Ii - Aesthetic Realism - Aesthetic Realism And Poetry
Aesthetic Realism states that the world and all that is in it can be seen poetically. Whatever we may meet--whether fortunate or unfortun...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesthetic Realism: Encyclopedia Ii - Aesthetic Realism - History
See also: Timeline of Aesthetic Realism Aesthetic Realism - Predecessors to Aesthetic Realism. The beginning of Aesthetic Realism is se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesthetic Realism: Encyclopedia Ii - Aesthetic Realism - Allegations Of Cult Behavior
Some former students allege that "Aesthetic Realism is a cult." [11]. They list what they call "cultish" aspects such as: "Fanatical dev...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Japanese Aesthetics: Encyclopedia Ii - Japanese Aesthetics - Moyoshi Events
Moyoshi (literally "Events") is the ways to appreciate the changing of seasons in nature. These events maybe held at homes, or as excursi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mathematics: Encyclopedia Ii - Mathematics - Inspiration, Pure And Applied Mathematics, And Aesthetics
Mathematics arises wherever there are difficult problems that involve quantity, structure, space, or change. At first these were found in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mechanical Floor: Encyclopedia Ii - Mechanical Floor - Aesthetics Concerns
Most mechanical floors require external vents or louvers for ventilation and heat rejection along most or all of their perimeter, preclud...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesthetics: Encyclopedia Ii - Aesthetics - Aesthetics In History And Philosophy
Thinkers and sages over the world have pondered beauty and art for millennia, but the subject was formally distinguished as an independen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jejune Band: Encyclopedia Ii - Jejune Band - Aesthetic
Many of Jejune's songs fit the construct and sensibilities of the emotional hardcore genre (a.k.a. emo.) Intimate verses of melodic, mela...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Taste: Encyclopedia Ii - Taste - Taste In Aesthetics
Taste can also refer to appreciation for aesthetic quality, significantly applying the purely physical term to an intellectual quality. I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arthur Schopenhauer: Encyclopedia Ii - Arthur Schopenhauer - Aesthetics
This wild and powerful drive to reproduce, however, caused suffering and pain in the world. For Schopenhauer, one way to escape the suffe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eli Siegel: Encyclopedia Ii - Eli Siegel - Aesthetic Realism
The basis of Aesthetic Realism is the principle, "The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Critique Of Judgment: Encyclopedia Ii - Critique Of Judgment - Aesthetics
The first part of the book, the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment, discusses the four possible reflective judgments - the agreeable, the bea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Beauty: Encyclopedia Ii - Beauty - Theories Of Beauty
The earliest theory of beauty can be found in the works of early Greek philosophers from the pre-Socratic period, such as Pythagoras. The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mixtape: Encyclopedia Ii - Mixtape - Aesthetics
While the process of recording a mix onto an audio cassette from LPs or compact discs is technically straightforward, many music fans who...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mona Lisa: Encyclopedia Ii - Mona Lisa - Aesthetics
The portrait presents the subject from just above the bust, with a distant landscape visible as a backdrop. Leonardo used a pyramid desig...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mona Lisa: Encyclopedia Ii - Mona Lisa - Aesthetics
The portrait presents the subject from just above the bust, with a distant landscape visible as a backdrop. Leonardo used a pyramid desig...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tapirapé: Encyclopedia Ii - Tapirapé - Body Aesthetics
The Tapirapé didn't use any clothing whatsoever in their daily life; but men were ashamed of their penis glans, which they covered with ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The World As Will And Representation: Encyclopedia Ii - The World As Will And Representation - Aesthetics Vol. 1 Book 3
Like many other aesthetic theories, Schopenhauer's centers on the concept of genius. Genius, according to Schopenhauer, is possessed by a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Birth Of Tragedy: Encyclopedia Ii - The Birth Of Tragedy - The Two Aesthetic Principles
Dionysus (Dionysian): intoxication, celebration of nature, cruelty, music, dance, pain, individuality dissolved and hence destroyed, whol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aztec Philosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - Aztec Philosophy - Beliefs
Aztec philosophy saw the concept of teotl as a fundamental unity that underlies the entire universe. Teotl forms, shapes, and is all thin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mole Skin Marking: Encyclopedia Ii - Mole Skin Marking - Aesthetic
The number of moles on a person's body appears to be hereditary. This applies also to their colour and shape. Moles may enhance or detrac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Eggleston: Encyclopedia Ii - William Eggleston - Eggleston's Aesthetic
Eggleston's mature work is characterized by its ordinary subject-matter. As Eudora Welty noted in her introduction to The Democratic Fore...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mechanical Floor: Encyclopedia Ii - Mechanical Floor - Structural Concerns
Skyscrapers have narrow building cores that require stabilization to prevent collapse. Typically this is accomplished by joining the core...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mathematics: Encyclopedia Ii - Mathematics - Inspiration Pure And Applied Mathematics And Aesthetics
Mathematics arises wherever there are difficult problems that involve quantity, structure, space, or change. At first these were found in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Golden Gate Bridge: Encyclopedia Ii - Golden Gate Bridge - Aesthetics
The color of the bridge is orange vermilion, deemed International Orange. The color was selected by consulting architect Irving Morrow be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mathematics: Encyclopedia Ii - Mathematics - Inspiration Pure And Applied Mathematics And Aesthetics
Mathematics arises wherever there are difficult problems that involve quantity, structure, space, or change. At first these were found in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-metrication: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-metrication - Aesthetics
Another complaint regarding SI is the alleged unpleasantness of its terms. Supporters of other systems claim that, being designed for sci...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quentin Tarantino: Encyclopedia Ii - Quentin Tarantino - Aesthetics
Tarantino's movies are renowned for their sharp dialogue, splintered chronology, and pop culture obsessions. Often they are viewed as gra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Guqin: Encyclopedia Ii - Guqin - Qin Aesthetics
When playing qin, there are many aesthetics involved. Firstly is the whole aspect of musicality. Take, for example, the second section of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kenji Mizoguchi: Encyclopedia Ii - Kenji Mizoguchi - Themes Aesthetics Trivia
Mizoguchi's films are well known for their championing of women. He has been called the first major feminist director. Typically he revea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quentin Tarantino: Encyclopedia Ii - Quentin Tarantino - Aesthetics
Tarantino's movies are renowned for their sharp dialogue, splintered chronology, and pop culture obsessions. Often they are viewed as gra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Order: Encyclopedia Ii - New Order - Aesthetics
New Order, and Factory Records products in general, frequently bore the minimalist packaging of Peter Saville. The group's record sleeves...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Artistic Dress Movement: Encyclopedia Ii - Artistic Dress Movement - Aesthetic Dress
Aesthetic dress of the 1880s and '90s carries on many of the external characteristics of Artistic dress (rejection of tightlacing, simpli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Cage: Encyclopedia Ii - John Cage - Asian Aesthetics
While at the Cornish School, Cage became interested in many things that informed much of his later work. He learnt through the Indian mus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sound Effect: Encyclopedia Ii - Sound Effect - Aesthetics In Film
When creating sound effects for films, sound recordists and editors do not generally concern themselves with the verisimilitude or true-t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Punk Ideology: Encyclopedia Ii - Punk Ideology - Aesthetics
Punk ideology - Music. In its almost three decades of existence, punk music has evolved and mutated to create a diversity of sounds. Pu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Golden Ratio: Encyclopedia Ii - Golden Ratio - Aesthetic Uses
It has been claimed that the ancient Egyptians knew the golden ratio because ratios close to the golden ratio may be found in the positio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Beauty: Encyclopedia Ii - Beauty - Effects Of Beauty In Human Society
A survey conducted by London Guildhall University of 11,000 people showed that (subjectively) good-looking people earn more. Less attract...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Urban Planning: Encyclopedia Ii - Urban Planning - Planning And Aesthetics
In developed countries there has been a backlash against excessive man-made clutter in the environment, such as bollards (signposts), sig...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Composting Toilet: Encyclopedia Ii - Composting Toilet - Possible Health Risks And Aesthetic Issues
Human faeces can be hazardous to come in contact with when improperly or incompletely composted, because it can contain bacteria and othe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Japanese Art: Encyclopedia Ii - Japanese Art - Aesthetic Concepts
Japanese art is characterized by unique polarities. In the ceramics of the prehistoric periods, for example, exuberance was followed by d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death In June: Encyclopedia Ii - Death In June - Symbolism And Aesthetics
Death In June has always used symbolism, in lyrics and aesthetic approaches. Often times, these symbols are sometimes slightly modified E...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Critique Of Pure Reason: Encyclopedia Ii - Critique Of Pure Reason - Transcendental Aesthetic
Kant separates the mind into two faculties, intuition and understanding. The Transcendental Aesthetic is that part of the CPR that consid...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Notable Calcuttans: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Notable Calcuttans - The Socio-cultural Capital And Aesthetic Conscience Of India
Kolkata has been regarded since ages as the cultural capital of India. It is famous for the book-fairs every winter. The International Bo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mechanical Floor: Encyclopedia Ii - Mechanical Floor - Mechanical Concerns
Besides structural support and elevator management, the primary purpose of mechanical floors is heating, ventilation and air-conditioning...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eli Siegel: Encyclopedia Ii - Eli Siegel - Works
Among Siegel's many published works are: Self and World: An Explanation of Aesthetic Realism. About Self and World, Smithsonian magazine...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eli Siegel: Encyclopedia Ii - Eli Siegel - Life
In 1925, his "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana" won the Nation Poetry Prize. (It would later be published in Hot Afternoons Have Been ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Critique Of Judgment: Encyclopedia Ii - Critique Of Judgment - Foundations
Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment (Kritik der Urteilskraft, 1790), also known as the third critique, simultaneously completes Kant's C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Critique Of Judgment: Encyclopedia Ii - Critique Of Judgment - Teleology
The second half of the Critique discusses teleological judgment. This way of judging things according to their ends (telos: Greek for bul...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Birth Of Tragedy: Encyclopedia Ii - The Birth Of Tragedy - The Book
In this book, Nietzsche, originally educated as a classicist, discusses the history of the Greek tragedy, and introduces an intellectual ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Eggleston: Encyclopedia Ii - William Eggleston - Early Years
William Eggleston was born in Sumner, Mississippi. His father was an engineer who had a failed career as a cotton farmer, and his mother ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kenosis: Encyclopedia Ii - Kenosis - Kenosis In Christology
In Christian theology, Kenosis is the concept of the 'self-emptying' of God. It is used both as an explanation of the incarnation, and a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Birth Of Tragedy: Encyclopedia Ii - The Birth Of Tragedy - Reception
The Birth of Tragedy was angrily criticized by many respected professional scholars of Greece. Particularly vehement was philologist Ulri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Counterpunch Typography: Encyclopedia Ii - Counterpunch Typography - Punches And Punch-cutting
In the digital world of typeface design, we tend to think of characters as two-dimensional objects. This is very different from the way t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Counterpunch Typography: Encyclopedia Ii - Counterpunch Typography - The Technical Issue
Punches were small, usually on the order of a few millimeters, and cutting them at all was a difficult task that required much practice. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Eggleston: Encyclopedia Ii - William Eggleston - Artistic Development
Eggleston's early photographic efforts were inspired by the work of American photographer Robert Frank and by French photographer Henri C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mona Lisa: Encyclopedia Ii - Mona Lisa - Identity Of The Model
There has been much speculation about the identity of the sitter. Vasari identified the subject to be the wife of the socially prominent ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1890s In Fashion: Encyclopedia Ii - 1890s In Fashion - Women's Fashions
Fashionable women's clothing styles shed some of the extravagances of previous decades (so that skirts were neither crinolined as in the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mona Lisa: Encyclopedia Ii - Mona Lisa - Identity Of The Model
There has been much speculation about the identity of the sitter. Vasari identified the subject to be the wife of the socially prominent ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cool African Philosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - Cool African Philosophy - Mystical Coolness And The Mask Of The Cool
In his work African Art in Motion [4], scholar Robert Farris Thompson (1974) divides the philosophy of cool into five distinct elements: ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Golden Gate Bridge: Encyclopedia Ii - Golden Gate Bridge - History
The bridge was the brainchild of Joseph Strauss, an engineer responsible for over 400 drawbridges, though they were far smaller than this...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mona Lisa: Encyclopedia Ii - Mona Lisa - Title
The title Mona Lisa stems from the Giorgio Vasari biography of Leonardo da Vinci, published 31 years after Leonardo's death. In it, he id...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mona Lisa: Encyclopedia Ii - Mona Lisa - History
Leonardo began the Mona Lisa in 1503 and completed it three or four years later. The painting was brought from Italy to France by Leonard...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mona Lisa: Encyclopedia Ii - Mona Lisa - History
Leonardo began the Mona Lisa in 1503 and completed it three or four years later. The painting was brought from Italy to France by Leonard...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Golden Gate Bridge: Encyclopedia Ii - Golden Gate Bridge - Suicides
The official suicide count ended in 1995 when the number approached 1,000. Through the five years to 2003, on average there was one suici...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Homeworld: Encyclopedia Ii - Homeworld - Reviews And Recognition
Homeworld was given high marks by most of the gaming community, and earned numerous awards, including IGN's game of the year award for 19...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Homeworld: Encyclopedia Ii - Homeworld - Reviews And Recognition
Homeworld was given high marks by most of the gaming community, and earned numerous awards, including IGN's game of the year award for 19...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Composting Toilet: Encyclopedia Ii - Composting Toilet - Types Of Toilet
There are two basic types of compost toilet, those that complete the composting process 'in situ' (such as a Clivus Multrum, BioLet, Envi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Johann Friedrich Herbart: Encyclopedia Ii - Johann Friedrich Herbart - Philosophy
Philosophy, according to Herbart, begins with reflection upon our empirical conceptions, and consists in the reformation and elaboration ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Francis Hutcheson Philosopher: Encyclopedia Ii - Francis Hutcheson Philosopher - Beginnings
He is thought to have been born at Drumalig, in the parish of Saintfield, County Down, Northern Ireland. University of Glasgow, where he ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conservation Biology: Encyclopedia Ii - Conservation Biology - Importance Of Conservation
Extinction of a species is a irreversible act. Once gone, an exterminated species represents a lost resource of unknown value. While the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tapirapé: Encyclopedia Ii - Tapirapé - Social Organization
Each family loghouse had a leader; however these leaders were not organized in any sort of village council. The Tapirapé didn't have a v...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Aesthete: Oceanography Dictionary - Aesthete
  Definition and meaning of aesthete:   aesthete - unique to chitons (Polyplacophora -Mollusca), aesthetes are photosensi...   » Read the article