The Aesthetic Variable: Defining Art, Movements, and Mediums

By: Scaglia, Beatriz

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Making use of the senses and the element of emotion, art encompasses the expression through music, literature, film, paintings, and more. Aesthetics as a branch of philosophy deals with the nature of beauty and art, including the appreciation of the disciplines and their relationship with human nature. Aesthetics is, in a phrase, ways of seeing and perceiving the world.

Art and aesthetics merge at the visual arts, where the creator or artist interprets an aesthetic which is then decoded by the viewer in individualistic terms unique to each and with critical views towards the original intent or meaning.

This book explores the scope of art and aesthetics, including the concept of artist, the definition of a work of art, the elements and principles, known art movements, anti-art, and much more.


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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1241040818
• ISBN13: 9781241040819
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Webster's Digital Services
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.4" x 9.7"