But, as in many aesthetic texts from this period, it is not always obvious which 'ideas' the work of art must seek to mirror.
As a starting point for our research we considered language plays, i.e., aesthetic texts, such as poems, songs, or nursery rhymes, that are produced in playful situations (E. Belke & G. Belke, 2006).
Our aesthetic key texts might be Fallout and BioShock.
In her introduction, Anderson acquaints the reader with the Sakuteiki, the oldest known aesthetic gardening text, written nearly a thousand years ago, which outlined the essential considerations — waterfalls "should always face the moon" — for the design of gardens that can still be viewed today.
References to music in ancient texts, aesthetic formulations, and depictions and written discussions of musical instruments can offer clues.
Sounding Imperial traces this global aesthetic by reading texts from canonical authors like Thomas Gray, James Macpherson, and Felicia Hemans together with lesser-known writers, like Welsh antiquarians, Anglo-Indian poets of colonialism, and impersonators of Pacific islanders.
Pablo Maurette, however, has opened a new dimension for this discussion by developing concrete answers to the question how the media of aesthetic experience, how texts, films, and artworks can become instrumental in initiating such closeness to the material world to which, ontologically, they do not belong.
The experiments also established a relationship between a higher averaged visual balance and the aesthetic appeal of text-overlaid images.
Two experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of symmetry and balance on the aesthetic appeal of text-overlaid images.
Under Representation shows how the founding texts of aesthetic philosophy ground the racial order of the modern world in our concepts of universality, freedom, and humanity.
The texts reveal aesthetic philosophy and literary criticism not as abstract of peripheral disciplines but as absolutely central topics in the mainstream of German Idealist thought.
