| 单词 | aesthetics |
| 释义 | aesthetics (once / 6860 pages) n Aesthetics is the study of beauty. That might sound funny, but any interior designer or art gallery patron has a thing or two to say about aesthetics. The philosopher, Alexander Baumgarten, gave us our current meaning of aesthetics. In the mid-1700s, he used the word to describe artistic beauty with the added bonus of a value judgment of good or bad taste. The public embraced Baumgarten's usage, and fashion mavens and art critics got a new word to describe the marriage of beauty and taste. WORD FAMILYaesthetics: aesthetical+/aesthetic: aesthetically, aesthetician, aesthetics, inaesthetic, unaesthetic/aesthetician: aestheticians USAGE EXAMPLESHis best-known work was "Ways of Seeing", a criticism of western cultural aesthetics, but he also won the Booker Prize for his novel G. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) Jerome Hoxton, president of Tru Art Advertising Calendars in Iowa City, Iowa, said traditional calendars remain popular because they combine aesthetics with utility. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) On shoots, Burtynksy stays tirelessly in “execute mode,” balancing aesthetics and logistics. The New Yorker(Dec 11, 2016) n (art) the branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste (emphasizing the evaluative criteria that are applied to art) traditional aesthetics assumed the existence of universal and timeless criteria of artistic value Syn|Hyper esthetics philosophy the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics |
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