Ms. Young should know about Robert Morris's 1963 "Statement of Aesthetic Withdrawal".
(Her fragrance is called Killer Queen, so this may be Perry's most solid statement of aesthetic loyalty).
That was, as much as anything, a statement of aesthetic intent, a reminder of an ambitious, poetic strand of Australian writing that was too often sidelined in an era in which mainstream theatre was dominated by a conservative version of naturalism.
That was to be the opening sentence of his first major achievement, The Adventures of Augie March, and the statement of a new aesthetic, not only for Bellow himself but also, it might be said, for the novel in America.
When some readers scoffed, Boucher responded with an aesthetic statement of purpose, enumerating the feminist virtues of Beyoncé and the anti-racist significance of "Gangnam Style," the global blockbuster by the Korean star PSY.
In effect, this is a form of linguistic phenomenalism, and commits Beardsley to meaning-preserving translations of statements about aesthetic objects into statements about the presentations of such objects in effect, statements about experiences of such objects.
Finally, Bosanquet writes that Croce fails to provide an adequate statement of the relation between the aesthetic, nature, and the metaphysical.
The upright, unstreamlined '02 profile starts to seem like a statement of moral uprightness -- or, at least, of aesthetic protest on a long, ugly road of plumped-up, hothouse minivans and relentlessly, soporifically ostentatious S.U.V.'s.
For a company not generally given to sweeping design statements, the midsize plug-in hybrid was a welcome sign of aesthetic derring-do.
Aesthetic experience and acceptability were measured using a multiple-scale questionnaire consisting of 27 statements that were hypothesized to load on different perceived components of aesthetic experience and acceptability.
Fortunately, that doesn't mean every artist of this generation would sacrifice the exploration of aesthetic possibilities in favor of socio-political artistic statements.
