In a sentence
Six example sentences with aesthetics, each labelled with its topic.
A course in aesthetics asks whether a judgment of beauty can be argued for or only reported as a preference.
Philosophy
Eighteenth-century aesthetics gave critics a vocabulary for the sublime, and gallery labels still borrow from it today.
Art
The seminar in aesthetics ran alongside the studio, forcing students to defend why a facade pleases anyone at all.
Architecture
A lecture in musical aesthetics asked why a minor chord sounds sad to listeners who have never studied theory.
Music
The film course opened with aesthetics, asking whether a beautiful shot can be justified or only admired.
Movies
Aristotle's Poetics remains the first serious work of aesthetics, setting out why a tragedy should move its audience.
Literature
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