What distinguishes aesthetic violence is its power to open up the tragic depths of feeling it represents.
This is not exactly the art-commerce divide that sentimentalists of cinema invoke in a vain effort to distinguish aesthetic ambition from mercenary zeal.
Beyond that, it has taught us to appreciate the amazing one-thing-after-anotherness of New York, which is its true, distinguishing aesthetic.
The definition of this troublesome term is beyond the scope of this article (see aesthetics); it will simply be said here that no quick and easy way of distinguishing aesthetic pleasures from other pleasures will suffice for the task at hand.
As a first step in the search for properties that distinguish aesthetic images from other image categories, we and other researchers have studied statistical properties of subsets of aesthetic images and found that they possess, on average, scale-invariant statistical properties in the Fourier domain [10] [13].
In the pseudonymous works of Kierkegaard's first literary period, three stages on life's way, or three spheres of existence, are distinguished: the aesthetic, the ethical, and the religious.
To distinguish between aesthetic values of ordinary experience (connected with subject-matter) and aesthetic values of art, as Fry wished, is impossible.
Among the influences reaching me through her, it is not always easy to distinguish the aesthetic movement from celebrations of "queer" sex.
Alternating and often combining formal and contextual approaches, the museum's exhibitions have taken particular care to distinguish between aesthetic and spiritual power, between visual presence and cultural meaning, while encouraging the appreciation of both.
There can be no question that Kant wants to distinguish genuinely aesthetic experience from merely physiological gratification of the senses, from the approval of utility, or from moral approval, and that he does this by saying that aesthetic judgment neither presupposes nor gives rise to any interest in the existence of its object.
