It is also because, as public artworks, "The Gates" and "Floating Island" are like a split personality: "The Gates" invited public interaction and was, in effect, completed by it; the island, reflecting Smithson's intellectual and generally chilly aesthetic, floats off at a distance, inaccessible, inhabited by no one.
Although some would see popular fiction and other sources of mass entertainment as a travesty of art, these, as well as even more elementary things, such as jokes, beating drums, and blowing whistles, have the same quality of immediate finality as things generally called aesthetic.
Given the ontological diversity of the human entities, artifacts, and performances that are generally considered as aesthetic, the fundamental goals of aesthetics are to establish accounts of the nature of aesthetic entities, aesthetic properties, aesthetic judgments, and the process of aesthetic change over time.
At the final stage, Zhukova moves in and gives the whole project what one might think of as the Dasha aesthetic, generally achieved by a relentless focus on particulars.
Yūgen may be, among generally recondite Japanese aesthetic ideas, the most ineffable.
Lesbians are more likely to exercise regularly than heterosexual women, and lesbians do not generally exercise for aesthetic reasons, although heterosexual women do.
Displaying many symbolic elements, it was the subject of many analyses on the Internet and in the press which generally praised its aesthetic qualities, but criticized for its lack of innovation.
More generally, Woodman trashes an aesthetic cynosure of ceramics: tactility.
The Vanderbilt departs from the homey, carefully worn aesthetic that generally prevails on this strip; the feeling is sleekly industrial and spacious.
More generally, the sweetly feminine aesthetic with a cool, London-girl edge that Chloe came to represent was coveted – and widely copied – the world over.
