"aesthetic indulgence" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to allowing oneself to experience or enjoy something purely for its aesthetic value, rather than for practical or functional purposes. Example: After a long week of work and responsibilities, Jane treated herself to an evening of aesthetic indulgence. She lit scented candles, put on soothing music, and spent hours admiring the beautiful paintings in her home.
ACTS of aesthetic indulgence seemed to compensate for the fact that Southern Europe's economy was in tatters.
The exactingly framed tableau, at once horrific and yet somehow spookily beautiful, looks so unreal that you might try to persuade yourself that this is science fiction, a vision of some imaginary hell, an aesthetic indulgence.
Foundation director of DADA, Ayodele Arigbabu, described the collection and other similar video and visual art work (in an email): "Far more than aesthetic indulgence, these renditions are a calibration of the changes deemed necessary in today's political, technical and cultural infrastructure".
Although Spirits - like the later Dario Argento/George Romero double-decker, Two Evil Eyes - is undeniably a horror movie, it also extends itself as pop art, cartoonish satire, aesthetic experiment, bizarre sexploitation and auteur indulgence.
The catalog describes how contemporary accounts of Asaf, a devout Indian Shiite painted by Zoffany, were "typically laden with Orientalist tropes" and stressed "his impotence, homosexuality, self-indulgence, corpulence, addiction to gaming, undiscriminating aesthetic taste, and legendary profligacy".
There's more care and attention to curating a sound and aesthetic that marries the two, rather than a surface-level indulgence in the Other.
Wainwright is not a man to shy away from pretension – and after six studio albums, he is now at the stage of his career where he can count on an adoring audience to accept this wholly as an integral part of his aesthetic, the source of his talents as well as his indulgences.
With its immodest saffron petals and gigantic geometry, the sunflower was a symbol of the Aesthetic style, which was a sophisticated and stripped-down reaction to the overstuffed indulgences of high Victorianism.
The great Nabokov did something like this, out of loyalty to illusion and deception as aesthetic ideals, but Greer is possessed by a serious tenderness that asks the reader's indulgence in a way that the aloof Russian would have scorned.
