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  2. Aestheticism - Wikipedia

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    Aestheticism (also known as the aesthetic movement) was an art movement in the late 19th century that valued the appearance of literature, music, fonts and the arts over their functions. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] According to Aestheticism, art should be produced to be beautiful, rather than to teach a lesson , create a parallel , or perform another didactic ...

  3. Color theory - Wikipedia

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    wherein color harmony is a function (f) of the interaction between color/s (Col 1, 2, 3, …, n) and the factors that influence positive aesthetic response to color: individual differences (ID) such as age, gender, personality and affective state; cultural experiences (CE), the prevailing context (CX) which includes setting and ambient lighting ...

  4. Cool (aesthetic) - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 February 2025. Attitude, behavior, appearance, or style which is generally admired "Coolness" redirects here. For the reciprocal of temperature, see thermodynamic beta. Look up cool in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Coolness, or being cool, is the aesthetic quality of something (such as attitude ...

  5. List of topics characterized as pseudoscience - Wikipedia

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    Polygraph ("lie detection") [478] – an interrogation method which measures and records several physiological indices such as blood pressure, pulse, respiration, and skin conductivity while the subject is asked and answers a series of questions. The belief is that deceptive answers will produce physiological responses that can be ...

  6. Cultural identity - Wikipedia

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    Cultural identity can be expressed through certain styles of clothing or other aesthetic markers. Cultural identity is a part of a person's identity, or their self-conception and self-perception, and is related to nationality, ethnicity, religion, social class, generation, locality, gender, or any kind of social group that has its own distinct culture.

  7. Aesthetic distance - Wikipedia

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    The term aesthetic distance itself derives from an article by Edward Bullough published in 1912. In that article, he begins with the image of a passenger on a ship observing fog at sea. If the passenger thinks of the fog in terms of danger to the ship, the experience is not aesthetic, but to regard the beautiful scene in detached wonder is to ...

  8. Fear and Trembling - Wikipedia

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    Problem 3 is the longest of the text and introduces the categories of the aesthetic and the demonic. Silentio claims that aesthetics rewards hiddenness while the ethical demands disclosure. Silentio then postulates that faith mimics aesthetics in its hiddenness but that it is ultimately a distinct category.

  9. Wabi-sabi - Wikipedia

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    The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of appreciating beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete" in nature. [3] It is prevalent in many forms of Japanese art. [4] [5] Wabi-sabi is a composite of two interrelated aesthetic concepts, wabi and sabi .