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This page is a list of topics in aesthetics.

A

A Mathematician's Apology - A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful - Abhinavagupta - Abstract Illusionism - Abstract art - Academic art - Acquired taste - Action painting - Aesthetic relativism - Aestheticism - Aestheticization of violence - Aesthetics - Aesthetics of music - Aleksei Losev - Alexander Gerard - Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten - Alexander Nehamas - Algernon Charles Swinburne - Alienation effect - Ambonoclast - American Craftsman - American Empire (style) - American realism - Anandavardhana - André Malraux - Anglo-Japanese style - Anti-art - Antwerp Mannerism - Antwerp school - Aristotle - Art Deco - Art Deco in Durban - Art and morality - Art criticism - Art for art's sake - Art forgery - Art movement - Art of murder - Art periods - Artcore - Arte Povera - Arthur Danto - Arthur Schopenhauer - Arthur Schopenhauer's aesthetics - Artist - Artistic expression - Artistic inspiration - Artistic revolution - Arts and Crafts movement - Ashcan School - August Wilhelm Schlegel - Auto-destructive art - Avant-Garde and Kitsch - Axiology

B

Barbizon school - Bauhaus - Bay Area Figurative Movement - Beauty - Benedetto Croce - Beuron Art School - Black Artists Group - Black Arts Movement - Brandywine School - Bruce Lee - Béla Balázs

C

Calvin Seerveld - Capitalist realism - Carl Dahlhaus - Catharsis - Cellar door - Characterism - Chinoiserie - Christopher Janaway - Circulism - Classical Realism - Classicism - Classificatory disputes about art - Clive Bell - Color-field Splash - Color Field - Comedy - Community art - Conceptual art - Concrescentism - Concrete art - Constructivism (art) - Contemporary Baroque Art - Cool (aesthetic) - Creativity - Critique of Judgement - Cubism - Culture of Asia - Cuteness - Cynical realism - Czech Cubism

D

Dada - Danube school - Dau al Set - David Hume - De Stijl - Death of the Author - Decadence - Decadent movement - Decadentism - Defastenism - Definition of art - Demon graphics - Depiction - Didacticism - Directoire (style) - Donkey's Tail - Dragestil - Déprimisme

E

Eastern Group of Painters - Edmund Burke - Edmund Gurney - Eduard Hanslick - Either/Or - Elegance - Eli Siegel - Empire (style) - Emptyism - English and Welsh - Erotic art - Esoteric Order of Art - Essentially contested concept - Exoticism - Expression - Expressionism

F

Fact-value distinction - Fauvism - Feminist Art Movement - Feminist literary criticism - Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand - Ferruccio Busoni - Fiction - Figuration Libre - Florentine School - Fluxus - Forgery - Form follows function - Formalesque - Formalism (art) - Found object - Francesco de Sanctis - Francis Ernest Jackson - Francis Hutcheson (philosopher) - François Hemsterhuis - Friedrich Nietzsche - Friedrich Schiller - Funk art - Futurism (art)

G

Geometric abstraction - Georg Anton Friedrich Ast - Georg Brandes - Georg Mehlis - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - George Dickie - George Lansing Raymond - George Santayana - Georges Bataille - Gjernes - Gothic Romanticism - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Greek Revival architecture - Gregory Currie - Grotesque body - Guild of Romanists - Gutai group

H

Haida Manga - Hamid Dabashi - Hans Pfitzner - Harlem Renaissance - Harmonices Mundi - Heinrich Gustav Hotho - Henri Focillon - Hermann Theodor Hettner - Heroic realism - Hierarchy of genres - Histogram equalization - History of aesthetics (pre-20th-century) - Hudson River School - Hugh Kenner - Human figure (aesthetics) - Human physical appearance - Humour - Hyojin-ism - Hypermodernism (art)

I

Iki (aesthetic ideal) - Imagination - Immanuel Kant - Impressionism - Incoherents - Inconnu Independent Art Group - Inherently funny word - Institutional Critique - Institutional theory of art - Intentional fallacy - International Gothic - International Typographic Style - Irrealism (philosophy)

J

Jack of Diamonds (artists) - Jacques Maritain - James DiGiovanna - Jan Mukařovský - Japanese aesthetics - Japanese sound symbolism - Jean-François Lyotard - Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin - Jerrold Levinson - Jerry Farber - Jo-ha-kyu - Johann Friedrich Herbart - Johann Gottfried Herder - John Anderson (philosopher) - John Hospers - John Maeda - Jonathan Edwards - Joseph Addison - Joseph Kosuth - Junge Wilde - Józef Kremer

K

Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel - Kendall Walton - Kinetic art - Kokoro - Kung Fu (TV series) - Kunstreligion

L

Lalita Pandit - Late Modernism - Leo Tolstoy - Leonid Stolovich - Les Automatistes - Les Nabis - Lettrism - Line of Beauty - List of French artistic movements - List of art movements - List of culturally-linked qualities of music - Literary criticism - Littoral art - Liu Xie - Live-art - Longinus (literature) - Lookism - Luminism (American art style) - Lyrical Abstraction

M

Madeleine Doran - Magnificence (History of ideas) - Makapansgat pebble - Mani Kaul - Margaret Magnus - Marxist aesthetics - Mathematical beauty - Maurice Blanchot - Max Black - Maximalism - Mazen Asfour - Metaphor - Metaphysical art - Metarealism - Michael Sprinker - Mikhail Bakhtin - Milan Damnjanovic (philosopher) - Mimesis - Mingei - Minimalism - Miyabi - Modern expressionism - Modernism - Modular constructivism - Monroe Beardsley - Moscow Conceptualists - Music - Music philosophy - Musica universalis - Musicology

N

Natural Design - Naturalism (arts) - Nelson Goodman - Neo-Dada - Neo-Futurists - Neo-Gothic art movement - Neo-baroque - Neo-conceptual art - Neo-expressionism - Neo-figurative - Neo-pop - Neo-primitivism - Neo-romanticism - Neoclassicism - Neomodern - Neonouveau - Nespelem (art) - Neuroesthetics - New Objectivity - New York School - New folk media - Nihonga - Northwest School (art) - Norwich school - Novalis - Novgorod School - Novísimos - Nsumi

O

Of the Standard of Taste - On the Genealogy of Morality - Op art - Ornament (architecture) - Orphism (art) - Oscar Wilde

P

Painters Eleven - Panic Movement - Papunya Tula - Paragone - Passionism - Paul Haeberlin - Paul de Man - Pennsylvania Impressionism - Performing arts - Peter Lunenfeld - Philistinism - Philosophy and Literature - Philosophy and literature - Philosophy in a New Key - Philosophy of Music - Phonaesthetics - Phonestheme - Photoconceptualism - Photogenic - Photorealism - Physical attractiveness - Plasticien - Poetics (Aristotle) - Poetry - Pop art - Pornography - Poshlost' - Post-Futurism - Post-Impressionism - Post-painterly Abstraction - Post-romanticism - Postminimalism - Postmodern art - Poussinist - Precisionism - Primitivism - Process Art - Proletkult - Psychology of art - Ptolemy - Punk visual art - Puppetista - Purism

R

R. G. Collingwood - Rasa (aesthetics) - Rasquache - Real live artist - Realism (arts) - Regionalism (art) - Reinformation - Relational Aesthetics - Retroarchaeology - Rhetoric (Aristotle) - Rhyme - Richard Meltzer - Richard Shusterman - Richard Wollheim - Roger North (17th century) - Roger Scruton - Roger de Piles - Roland Barthes - Roman Ingarden - Ronald Paulson - Rudolf Arnheim

S

Salon "Comparaisons" - Sandhi - Secessionism - Secretism - Seiz Breur - Self-declared art movement - Semiotics - Semiotics of Ideal Beauty - Sentimental poetry - Sexual attraction - Sexual selection - Shibui - Shin hanga - Sienese School - Sikh art and culture - Social realism - Socialist realism - Sociology of art - Sound poetry - Sound symbolism - Soviet Nonconformist Art - Space art - Spanish Eclecticism - Stanley Cavell - Stephen R. Marquardt - Steven Poole - Street poster art - Stroganov School - Stuckism - Stuckism in America - Stuckist demonstrations - Stupid (art movement) - Sublime (philosophy) - Superfiction - Superflat - Supervenience - Suprematism - Susanne Langer - Symbolism (arts) - Symmetry (physical attractiveness) - Symposium (Plato) - Synchromism - Søren Kierkegaard - Sosaku hanga

T

Tachisme - Tansu - Taruho Inagaki - Taste (sociology) - The Art Movements - The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons - The Origin of the Work of Art - The Romantic Manifesto - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - The aestheticization of politics - Theodor Mundt - Theodor W. Adorno - Thomas Reid - Totalism (music) - Transfer Art - Transhumanist art - Transmission art - Trtl - Tudor Vianu

U

Udaiyan - Ugliness - Umberto Eco - Utamakura

V

Verism - Vernon Lee - Victor Cousin - Vienna School of Fantastic Realism - Virgil Aldrich - Vissarion Belinsky - Visual literacy - Visual rhetoric - Volcano School - Vorticism

W

Wabi-sabi - Walter Benjamin - Walter Pater - Warren Shibles - Washington Color School - Western painting - What Is Art? - Wiener Moderne - William Kurtz Wimsatt, Jr. - Wolfgang Fritz Haug - Woodlands Style - Wladyslaw Tatarkiewicz

X

Xiaozi

Y

Yabo - Yiannis Psychopedis - Yusuf Balasaghuni - Yoga (art)

Z

Zaum - Zeami Motokiyo - Zhe School

See also

• Philosophy