The impulse to look at an "apparently burning garbage heap" and see an "urban phenomenon," and then make it the raw material of an elaborate aesthetic construct, is not so different from the more common impulse not to look at all.
Such narrative experiments make one wonder where Lodge himself stands on the contrast, broached several times in "A Man of Parts," between Henry James's concept of the novel as an aesthetic construct and Wells's more "instrumental" notion of fiction as a way to improve society.
In the spirit perhaps of no good deed goes unpunished, the Museum's present decision to sacrifice the contemporary if not categorically orthodox modernist Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects Folk Art Museum (ill-conceived operationally as it clearly was) is nonetheless a record of the increasingly blurred narrative of late 20th and early 21st century aesthetic constructs.
In other cases, individuals view disability culture in personal and aesthetic contexts, constructing a culture through encounters that shape individual identity and identity formation.
For Ingarden, architectural objects, like other art objects, require that architect and spectator construct aesthetic qualities of the object to give it its identity as an architectural object, in addition to recognizing the constituent collections of constituent materials and parts.
The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama.
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However, the 'mountain' is an idealised western construct; where one's aesthetic understanding and appraisal of them predicates judgement.
The Aperture lab, a pure construct of puzzle design and aesthetic skill, a world in which architecture is task, and every visual motif on every wall is perfect and meaningful.
Every Wal-Mart and KFC in America is ugly — but what are magnificently ugly are the buildings that cost hundreds of millions to construct, and still emerge as aesthetic monstrosities".
The term is generally used in the context of the zen aesthetic, but it's also a useful construct when it comes to how we think of spending our time.
