Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, have investigated how the combination of music and images influences the aesthetic perception of ...

You might be interested in aesthetics, but you're probably wondering if you need to be an expert in art to read about it, or ...

Arthur C. Danto’s The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art (1981), a classic of American philosophy, widely read by contemporary artists, opens with a marvelous example. Søren ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. In his monumental two-volume Aesthetics, the German philosopher Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889–1977) rejects the ...

An original literary scholar, Sianne Ngai has centered her work on unspooling the social and political histories that form the aesthetic judgments of novels, movies and photographs, as well as the ...

Philosophical inquiry into aesthetics has long sought to understand the nature of artistic value, the conditions of aesthetic experience and the role of art in human life. Within this broad enterprise ...

Thinking about a PhD? The Institute For Doctoral Studies In The Visual Arts (IDSVA) invites you to joinus for our first live Informational Session online. IDSVA Director Dr. Simonetta Moro and select ...

Aesthetic experiences can arise from the appreciation of human artifacts, such as artworks (e.g., music, poetry, sculpture, visual arts, nature, and the built environment). In the presence of ...