Neither universalist nor relativist, the "aesthetics of uncertainty" provides a discourse on beauty that contemporary critics can engage with and offers a basis for judgment that is committed to assigning value to works of art.
Much of the discourse about beauty since the 18th century had deployed a notion of the "aesthetic", and so that notion in particular came in for criticism.
This article examines the discourse on beauty, style, and fashion developed by Viennese architect and essayist Adolf Loos between the 1890s and the 1920s.
And Mr. Chan knew, which is why we were there in the first place, participants in an art project that had everything, or at least a lot: objects, words, images, ideas, emotions, discourse, actions, lessons, beauty, politics, criticality and generosity.
A new kind of discourse on art, beauty, and human sensibilities emerged in the 18th Century, for which Baumgarten, in Germany, coined the term 'aesthetics'aesthetics
Those who are capable of speech give long discourses on the beauty of flowers; others just admire them.
Those who are capable of speech give long discourses about the beauty of flowers; others just admire them.
As feminist discourse has gone mainstream, the beauty industry has tried to cover some of its tracks.
Aesthetic Life examines the contributions of writers, artists, scholars, critics, journalists, and politicians to the discussion of the bijin and to the production of a national discourse on standards of Japanese beauty and art.
After more than half a century of suspicion and interrogation, beauty's resurgence in visual practice and discourse since the late 1980s has engaged some of the most influential artists and writers on art.
The difference here was this was an honest discourse about how we define beauty within the black community.
