Aesthetics
Ashta Nayika
The Ashta-Nayika is a collective name for eight types of nayikas or heroines as classified by Bharata in his Sanskrit…
Feminist aesthetics
Feminist aesthetics refers not to a particular aesthetic or style but to perspectives that question assumptions in art and aesthetics…
Art criticism
Art criticism is the discussion or evaluation of visual art. Art critics usually criticise art in the context of aesthetics…
Applied aesthetics
Applied aesthetics is the application of the branch of philosophy of aesthetics to cultural constructs. Architecture and interior design Although…
Aesthetics of music
In the pre-modern tradition, the aesthetics of music or musical aesthetics explored the mathematical and cosmological dimensions of rhythmic and…
Aesthetic history
The aesthetic, understood in its traditional (Kantian) sense as the philosophical study of perceptions, emotions, beauty and art, covers a…
Aesthetics
Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation…
Rasa in aesthetics
A rasa (Sanskrit: रस, Malayalam: രാസ്യം) literally means "juice, essence or taste". It connotes a concept in Indian arts about…
Evolutionary aesthetics
Evolutionary aesthetics refers to evolutionary psychology theories in which the basic aesthetic preferences of Homo sapiens are argued to have…
Form follows function
Form follows function is a principle associated with 20th-century modernist architecture and industrial design which says that the shape of…
Feng shui
Feng shui, also known as geomancy, is a pseudoscience originating from China, which claims to use energy forces to harmonize…
Architectural design values
Architectural design values make up an important part of what influences architects and designers when they make their design decisions.…
Aestheticism
Aestheticism is a 19th-century theory that art, whether visual or literary, is self-sufficient and need have no moral or social…