The plays of Samuel Beckett, to whom Adorno had intended to dedicate Aesthetic Theory, are emblematic in that regard.
MUSEUMS usually present art, artifacts and antiquities in ways intended to heighten the aesthetic pleasure of visitors.
One is student work by the artist Chris Burden that is still in his possession — a small bronze from 1966 intended to be both aesthetic and functional.
It often looks machine-made and features the latest technology, yet modern houses are almost always built largely by hand, even when they are intended to embody the aesthetic of the computer age.
The House of Chimeras in Bankova Street is a fantasy in cement, built in 1902 and crowned with a menagerie of chimerical beasts - frogs, elephants, griffins, mermaids - apparently intended to demonstrate the aesthetic possibilities of ferro-concrete.
Contrary to their procedural origin the signs as they exist within context of a particular work are intended to individually communicate aesthetic information against an objectified backdrop.
In fact, we are interested in also promoting an understanding of arts which drives arts further and beyond an only-aesthetic-understanding of arts, which does not deny the aesthetic dimension (dimensions) but intends to complement the aesthetic dimension of arts.
And he formulated an aesthetic that was intended to preserve poetry's privileged status, but without the Symbolist's mysticism or the aesthete's cult of the beautiful.
Although white and grey dominate, I was also surprised at how many splashes of colour there are - an orange wall here, a yellow ceiling there - which were intended to be not only aesthetic but also functional (red, for example, signifies movement).
Although "apocalyptic-industrial" was intended to be the overall aesthetic, watching cranes drive around setting up stages while notable smart-dance acts like Martyn and Actress brought down the sun to an empty dancefloor at the sizable Mothership Stage was not the kind of surreal the organizers had in mind.
Harrison, Abramovitz & Abbe, the architects, intended the pools to be merely aesthetic, but in a scant three months they have become a fixture of New York life as wishing wells.
