The phrase "aesthetic device" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a technique or element in art, literature, or design that enhances the visual or sensory appeal of a work.
Example: "The author employed several aesthetic devices to create a vivid and immersive atmosphere in the novel."
Alternatives: "artistic tool" or "visual element".
And now architects have returned to it as an aesthetic device.
The narrative turn is both exuberantly postmodern and in dead earnest, questioning the use of suffering as an aesthetic device.
Pedullà's interesting little book announces that the age of the cinema theatre as the form's primary "aesthetic device" is over.
Northstar Version 1 is an aesthetic device consisting of a microchip with five red LED lights that shine through skin; further versions are in development.
Nelsons books include The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial, which explores the aftermath of the 1969 murder of Nelsons aunt and the trial, held decades later, of a suspect in the case; The Art of Cruelty, an examination of violence as an aesthetic device in avant-garde art and culture; and four collections of poetry.
The book's innovative, elegiac style is not merely an aesthetic device, but rather a provocation.
A NEW crop of hand-held aesthetic devices has been crowding the bathroom shelf, wedged between the latest salon styling tool and multispeed electric toothbrush.
They represent one of the top three categories of home-use aesthetic devices sold globally, after skin rejuvenation and hair removal devices, said Michael Moretti, an analyst and founder of Medical Insight, an aesthetic market research firm.
Allegory puts forward a basic theory of allegory as a symbolic mode, shows how it expresses fundamental emotional and cognitive drives, and relates it to a wide variety of aesthetic devices.
Parr's photography is, above all, a visual extravaganza; a large and skillfully honed collection of aesthetic devices that are used not just to define a social point or to underline a cultural statement, but for their own sake, in celebration of photography's singularity as a still, two-dimensional image acting as a mirror to the way we live".
It has been held to be a form so powerful that its aesthetic devices reinforce gender positions in society.
