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[[Aesthetics]] (also spelled æsthetics) is commonly known as the study of [[sensory]] or sensori-[[emotion]]al values, sometimes called [[judgment]]s of sentiment and taste. More broadly, scholars in the field define aesthetics as "critical [[reflection]] on [[art]], [[culture]] and [[nature]]." Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy and is closely associated with the philosophy of art.  

[[Aesthetics]] (also spelled æsthetics) is commonly known as the study of [[sensory]] or sensori-[[emotion]]al values, sometimes called [[judgment]]s of sentiment and taste. More broadly, scholars in the field define aesthetics as "critical [[reflection]] on [[art]], [[culture]] and [[nature]]." Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy and is closely associated with the philosophy of art.  

The term aesthetics 1790-, derives from the German ästhetisch or the French esthétique, both derived from the Greek αισθητικός (aisthetikos) "esthetic-sensitive-sentient", from αίσθηση-αισθάνομαι (aisthese-aisthanomai) "to perceive-feel-sense"[6]

The term aesthetics 1790-, derives from the German ästhetisch or the French esthétique, both derived from the Greek αισθητικός (aisthetikos) "esthetic-sensitive-sentient", from αίσθηση-αισθάνομαι (aisthese-aisthanomai) "to perceive-feel-sense"[6]

==Origins==

==Origins==

The eighteenth century is critcial in the [[history]] of '''aesthetics''' and of [[art]] criticism in general. It is known that the very term aesthetics was coined at that time, and, at least in the opinion of some historians, the subject [[matter]] itself, the “philosophy of art,” was invented in that comparatively recent period and can be applied to earlier phases of Western [[thought]] only with reservation. It is also generally agreed that such dominating [[concepts]] of modern aesthetics as taste, sentiment, [[genius]], originality, and [[creative]] [[imagination]] did not assume their definite modern [[meaning]] before the eighteenth century. Some scholars have rightly noticed that only the eighteenth century produced a type of [[literature]] in which [[The Arts|the various arts]] were compared with each other and discussed on the basis of common principles, whereas up to that period treatises on poetics and [[rhetoric]], on [[painting]] and [[architecture]], and on [[music]] had represented quite distinct branches of writing and were primarily concerned with technical precepts rather than with general [[ideas]]. Finally, at least a few scholars have noticed that the term Art, with a capital A and in its modern sense, and the related term fine arts (Beaux-Arts) originated in all [[probability]] in the eighteenth century.

The eighteenth century is critcial in the [[history]] of '''aesthetics''' and of [[art]] criticism in general. It is known that the very term aesthetics was coined at that time, and, at least in the opinion of some historians, the subject [[matter]] itself, the “philosophy of art,” was invented in that comparatively recent period and can be applied to earlier phases of Western [[thought]] only with reservation. It is also generally agreed that such dominating [[concepts]] of modern aesthetics as taste, sentiment, [[genius]], originality, and [[creative]] [[imagination]] did not assume their definite modern [[meaning]] before the eighteenth century. Some scholars have rightly noticed that only the eighteenth century produced a type of [[literature]] in which [[The Arts|the various arts]] were compared with each other and discussed on the basis of common principles, whereas up to that period treatises on poetics and [[rhetoric]], on [[painting]] and [[architecture]], and on [[music]] had represented quite distinct branches of writing and were primarily concerned with technical precepts rather than with general [[ideas]]. Finally, at least a few scholars have noticed that the term Art, with a capital A and in its modern sense, and the related term fine arts (Beaux-Arts) originated in all [[probability]] in the eighteenth century.