Aesthetics (also spelled æsthetics or esthetics) is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty. It is more scientifically defined as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste. More broadly, scholars in the field define aesthetics as "critical reflection on art, culture and nature."
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- The Fountainhead ,
- Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime ,
- Phantasmagoria ,
- The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness ,
- The muses ,
- The artful universe ,
- The absence of myth ,
- On pictures and the words that fail them ,
- Emotion in aesthetics ,
- Homo aestheticus