The phrase "aesthetic function" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions related to art, design, or philosophy, referring to the role or purpose of aesthetics in a particular context.
Example: "The aesthetic function of the sculpture enhances the overall experience of the gallery space."
Alternatives: "artistic purpose" or "visual role".
Croce, who introduced it, sought to dismiss representation as aesthetically irrelevant and to elevate expression into the single, true aesthetic function.
Belinsky desired a literature primarily concerned with current social problems, although he never expected it to give up the aesthetic function entirely.
In certain eras artist-craftsmen have sometimes placed less emphasis on the intrinsic value of materials than on their aesthetic function as components contributing to the effect of the whole.
On that series and later on shows like "The OC" and "Gossip Girl," wealth provides an aesthetic function — all those lush spaces and nice things — but more significantly it supplies the dramatic excuse for young people to be put in Gucci trousers and expensive cars and to better masquerade as grown-ups.
A borderline case is architecture: many buildings are useful objects the aesthetic function of which is marginal, and other buildings are primarily objects of beauty the utility of which is incidental or no longer existent (Greek temples were once places of worship, but today their value is entirely aesthetic).
This solution inhibits the aesthetic function of the watercourses and has the negative impacts on instream biota.
Orthographies were not invented as art forms, but, once invented, they could serve aesthetic functions.
One scheme established four categories on the basis of informative, dynamic, emotive, and aesthetic functions.
YSL's offending shoes are red all over.In denying the request for an injunction the judge said that in the fashion industry colour serves ornamental and aesthetic functions vital to robust competition, so Louboutin was unlikely to be able to prove that its brand was entitled to trademark protection.
"Because in the fashion industry color serves ornamental and aesthetic functions vital to robust competition," Judge Marrero ruled, "the court finds that Louboutin is unlikely to be able to prove that its red outsole brand is entitled to trademark protection, even if it has gained enough protection in the market to have secondary meaning".
By associating art closely to an aesthetic dimension, arts can also fulfill 'aesthetic functions' or also those aesthetic functions, which society or specific communities want to assign to arts.
