Although coevolutionary aesthetic theory makes the radical proposal that many biotic advertisements are forms of art, it simultaneously provides an intellectual framework for understanding the nature of the aesthetic processes that give rise to human art forms.
However, human artworlds are merely a subsample of the many, diverse biotic artworlds which share the same fundamental aesthetic process of evaluative coevolution.
Analyses that imply that revolutionary artworks, like Marcel Duchamp's Fountain, are non-aesthetic or anti-aesthetic fail to recognize that the aesthetic itself is transformed by aesthetic process just like the criteria for what constitutes an artwork.
The coevolutionary aesthetic theory does not privilege the role of aesthetic producers in aesthetic process or change.
Beauty is predominant because positive aesthetic engagement will foster the most persistent, detailed, and profound forms of the coevolutionary interactions that drive all aesthetic process.
She was fascinated by how the Chinese internet influenced Miao's "artistic aesthetic, process and production," writing that Miao "has a bit of a love affair with the kitschy, low-tech aesthetic, and unreliable nature of this part of the [world wide web.]" .
It is ironic that Slavick would allow this myth such leeway, considering that her entire project is to a great degree devoted to an aesthetic process that gets erroneously labeled alternately as the aestheticization and the anesthetization of suffering.
To understand aesthetic process broadly, it is necessary to recognize the ontological diversity of the distinct, historically and mechanistically heterogeneous components of nature.
In this article, I explore the idea that art arises through a generalizable aesthetic process that is not exclusive to human beings.
… When they appear at public hearings on their projects (which they do all the time, and which they consider part of their aesthetic process), Christo, who is Bulgarian by birth, speaks with an intensity that overcomes his accent and his still shaky command of English, while Jeanne-Claude's French-tinted fluency gets all the laughs.
