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Aesthetics

The branch of philosophy concerned with beauty, artistic experience, taste, form, and the interpretation of art.

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The branch of philosophy concerned with beauty, artistic experience, taste, form, and the interpretation of art.

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The branch of philosophy concerned with beauty, artistic experience, taste, form, and the interpretation of art. For the sculptor, aesthetics concerns not only whether an object is beautiful, but how material, proportion, surface, scale, meaning, and perception combine to produce an artistic experience.