Aesthetic experiences — of harmony, beauty, the sublime, shock, awe, wonder — are integral to a flourishing life; educators ...

In ‘Portrait of the Artist as an Aesthetic Expert’, Christy Mag Uidhir and Cameron Buckner try to reframe the aesthetic theory of art (which refers to aesthetic features of an artwork) by claiming ...

Kai Hammermeister on the beauty business. Aesthetics is the philosophical investigation of art and the theory of beauty and opposite phenomena, like the ugly, the comical, the ironic, the grotesque ...

Carolyn Korsmeyer argues that feminist aesthetics offers a picture of emotional response to artworks different from the traditional one and from that employed in mainstream feminist film theory ...

musicology and music theory; aesthetic theory; religion and ontotheology; political economy; queer theory; and critical science and technology studies. Courses constitutively and thoroughly structured ...

For students hoping to further both their academic and artistic passions this shopping period, the Brown Arts Institute is ...