Concept
Applied aesthetics
Overview
Applied aesthetics is the application of the branch of philosophy of aesthetics to cultural constructs. In a variety of fields, artifacts (whether physical or abstract) are created that have both practical functionality and aesthetic affectation. In some cases, aesthetics is primary, and in others, functionality is primary. At best, the two needs are synergistic, in which "beauty" makes an artifact work better, or in which more functional artifacts are appreciated as aesthetically pleasing. This achievement of form and function, of art and science, of beauty and usefulness, is the primary goal of design, in all of its domains.
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For this harmony of the notion and its envisagement is nothing less than perfected suffusion[200].
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 1
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[Sidenote: The attitude of the artist] That art originated in play is a common saying. Whether or not the saying is historically correct, it suggests that harmony of mental playfulness and seriousness describes the artistic ideal. When the artist is preoccupied overmuch with means and materials, he may achieve wonderful technique, but not the artistic spirit _par excellence_.
John Dewey, How We Think
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AEsthetic valuation is in certain respects intermediate between the valuation of things on the one hand and the moral evaluation of acts of persons or conscious states on the other. AEsthetic objects are in many cases seemingly things and yet even as things they are quasi-personal; they are viewed with a certain sympathy quite different from that which we feel for a purely economic object. If it is a work of art the…
John Dewey, Creative Intelligence
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Related ideas
- John Dewey
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- Music
- Geometry
- Feng shui
- Cinematography
- Visual perception
- Architecture
- Poetry
- Postmodernism
- Photography
- Novel
- Short story
- Virtual reality
- Visual arts
- Harmony
- Michel Foucault
- Cognitive science
- Paul Erdős
- Cartography
- Sublime (philosophy)
- Design
- Pragmatism
- Human–computer interaction
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Aesthetics.