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18th Century French Aesthetics - Jacques Morizot's entry examines the French junction between Enlightenment ideals and the teachings of taste. From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

aesthesis - Weblog devoted to the discussion of aesthetics and art related topics.

Aesthetic Judgment - Philosophical theories about judgments of taste; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Nick Zangwill.

Aesthetic Reailsm: A New Perspective - Discussion of Eli Siegel's principle: 'All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.'
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Aesthetics - Barry Hartley Slater gives an overview of this branch of philosophy explaining concepts such as sublime, representation, aesthetic value, and expression.From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Aesthetics : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online - Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Malcolm Budd's contribution on Aesthetics.
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404 Aesthetics and Higher Education - 1996 Annual Report to the Board of Trustees, American Society for Aesthetics.

Aesthetics-L - Mailing list for the exchange of ideas and information about aesthetics and philosophy of art.

African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning - University of Virginia exhibition site emphasizing the formal aesthetic aspects of the objects and the moral and religious ideas they express, beyond cultural boundaries.

Appreciation of Art - Examines various art forms that contain unique elements subject to various interpretations.
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Architectural Aesthetics - Aesthetic values explored at the University of Arizona in terms of balance, order, integrity and meaning.

404 Art and Imagination: Implications of Cognitive Science for Moral Education - Article by Jonathan Rethorst. Reviews the claim that art is good for the soul.

ArtLex - Art Dictionary - Reference material in art, art history, art criticism, aesthetics, and art education. Definitions of thousands of terms, illustrations, quotations, and links to other resources.
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Beauty and the Beautiful - Francis Mangion's directory of sites from around the world that are concerned with the nature of beauty.
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Beauty in the Ear of the Beholder - An essay discussing Eduard Hanslick's theory of the musically beautiful, with links to further information and sound recordings.

Bit-String Aesthetics - The connection between aesthetics and binary number (structure of zeros and ones) have been found. It would be interesting to develop the idea. Mariusz Stanowski is open for any cooperation, specially with computer scientists, mathematicians or physicists.
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Chenguang Lu - Theory of aesthetics based on dissatisfaction.

Class Home Page: Philosophy 361 - Complete Philosophy of Art internet course at California State University, Long Beach. Includes e-texts and extensive links.

Contemporary Art Test - Criteria for determining quality in contemporary art. Links to Biddington's art business.
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Developments in Indian Art and Culture - Explores the philosophical influences on Indian sculpture as well as the value system that created different criterion for expression in the Indian miniature.
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Japanese Aesthetics - Overview of the most important aesthetic ideas that have arisen in the course of the Japanese philosophical tradition. From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Jurate Macnoriute. Articles on Art Theory. Painting - List of articles on art theory by Jurate Macnoriute. Geometric art analysis, proportions, golden section, visual semiotics, painting, colours analysis.
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Metamute - Metamute is the web platform of Mute magazine. Discusses interrelationship of art and new technologies and contributes to debates on culture, politics and globalisation.

Metaphysics and Art - Exploration of the classical and scholastic Philosophy of Art, and a discussion of modern art, especially Kandinsky, in the light of classical thought. By Dr. Piotr Jaroszynski.

On Connoisseurship - Art connoisseur Richard de Koster brings with various ideas about the role of the artist in society, based on a 1994 exhibition at the Boston Institute of Fine Arts.
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Philosophy and Literature - Including ideas in the aesthetics of literature, philosophical interpretation of literature, and literary treatment of philosophy, hosted by Project MUSE.

Philosophy of Virtuality - Regularly updated site exploring the as if, virtual reality and the philosophy of art. Web pages include methodology, philosophical biography, essays on virtuality and philosophical fiction.
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Physics, Philosophy and Art - Describing 3 views on the world.
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Roger Scruton's Books on Aesthetics - List of Roger Scruton's books on aesthetics and synopsis of each.
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Seven Discourses on Art by Sir Joshua Reynolds - Download the Project Gutenberg eBook of Seven Discourses on Art by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
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The End of Art - Discussion of The Death of Art theory at Frostburg State University Philosophical Forum.

500 The Infography - Aesthetics: Ethical Aspects - Sources for the study of the ethical aspects of aesthetics.
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Thomas Becker's philosophy about music - Composer, Thomas Becker's ideas about beauty and quality in music.
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Transcendental Aesthetics and Writing - Aesthetics in transcendental literature, including Emerson and Thoreau.

Trevor Pateman's Selected Works - Topics in philosophical aesthetics including imagination, formalism, beauty and Rothko.
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WCP: Aesthetics and Philosophy of the Arts - The Paideia Project: Proceedings of the 20th World Congress of Philosophy. Archive of contributed papers in Aesthetics and Philosophy of the Arts.
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