Aesthetics

Aesthetics have come to have a different meaning to me since I first enrolled in the class. I have come to think of the advancements we have made on the topic mind-blowing. I think every philosophy we have looked at has held a truth. Schiller says it is nature that equipped man with the ability to move from what is real to what is not. Nature provided man with two senses to help them create; sight and hearing. Once someone can enjoy sight he is aesthetically free. The power of sight gives one the ability to distinguish the image from an object. Appearance becomes an aesthetic value because of its separation from the object itself. One lets their experience influence their ideas of what their existence is. This existence is separate from…

Aesthetic labor requires that service workers “look good and sound right” for the job, it highlights “the enjoyment associated with shopping and downplays the drawbacks of working in a substandard job” (Williams and Connell, p14). The demand of aesthetic labor also justifies “continued job segregation, holding responsible workers and customers – and not employers – for the sorting of workers on the basis of class, race and gender” (Williams and Connell, p14). We can see aesthetic labor in field…

Aesthetic value can be defined as the sensation or feeling of enjoying beauty. For example, when we see a good piece of art in an exhibition, we feel like appreciating that particular art and artist as we find that art a beautiful one. That feeling specifically can be referred to as aesthetic value. Every human will have the value of aesthetics or aesthetic sense that one get to enjoy whatever he/she sees in her daily life. The joy of enjoying beauty gives some kind of pleasure. “Beauty depends…

This paper reviews the concepts of Aesthetic philosophers and how their theories developed new standards of Aesthetics from the Classical Greek Era, to the Modern Era. The first section of this text describes the philosophers perspectives of Aesthetics during each era, an explanation as to what the philosophers concepts mean, and a possible example or reference to modern society. The second section of this text compares and contrasts the philosophers that have been discussed in this text. …

Analysis of the Plainness of the Quaker Aesthetic: The Artistic Resolution of the Inward Light and the Material World The major focus of the Quaker aesthetic will be defined through the conflicting expression of art as a form of “plainness” in the spiritual building of the material world. The spiritual process of artistic expression in the Quaker community was based on the conflict of spiritual principles, which sought to minimize the corruption and debasement of the material world. This…

into a victim of the system. Going from “special education” classes to rigorous courses, I improved academically. Then focusing my energy into aesthetics and positively affecting the community, I established myself as a person with passion for progress. Mainstream America’s values of “common sense” paint a vivid picture of an ideal citizen, a “good” family and success. People adopt a hunger to attain this ideal. Greed and insecurity becomes the fuel to feed the scarcity they feel inside imposed…

Aesthetic Attitude According to the thinkers who deals with the subjective approach to the problems of aesthetics, aesthetic experience deals with our attitude or how we make-up our mental consciousness to suit ourselves. According to these thinkers, the object that we see it is not considered to be aesthetic but it is the attitude in which we perceive it and the capacity to make a dedicated observation which enables the mind to obtain these aesthetic experiences that matters. Jerome Stolnitz,…

Aesthetic imperialism did not solely enforce racial hierarchies that legitimized British supremacy on the basis of racial hierarchy, perhaps aesthetic imperialism’s effectiveness lies in its ability to enforce multiple indigenous and imperial hierarchies concurrently. The ideal nature of the British woman was “constructed [in] middle-class domesticity,” and was championed as a “force of domestic stability and familial love” necessary to the health of the empire-nation (191). To the ends of…

Sublime Industry and Risky Aesthetics: A Comparison of Edward Burtynsky’s OIL and Karen Solie’s “Bitumen” Karen Solie’s poem “Bitumen” (2015) and Edward Burtynsky’s photography collection OIL (2009) both question the adequacy of sublime aesthetics as a representational mode for depicting the effects of industry. I will explore how the oil industry is represented as sublime in Burtynsky’s OIL and the critical and ironic distance this representation requires. Informing this will be historical…

Often people go through life without analyzing objects. Most of us live life just doing the same old cycle of things but never stop to appreciate the beauty and emotion that an object can bring. This same thing happened to me until realizing the beauty of something so simple. A barbell. Not something commonly known to be considered “beautiful.” But throughout our Aesthetics class we have mentioned many different theories and many different philosophers and artists takes on those theories. …