Introduction to Aesthetics

Author: Wang Zhaowen
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: The research object of aesthetics includes the following interrelated aspects:
(1) From an objective perspective, studying aesthetic objects to elucidate the nature and origin of beauty, research the contradictory development of beauty and ugliness, various forms of beauty, as well as the essential characteristics and interrelationships of sublimity, farce, tragedy, comedy, etc.
(2) From a subjective perspective, studying the aesthetic consciousness as a reflection of aesthetic objects to elucidate its nature, the characteristics of its reflective forms, and the historical development of its regularities.
(3) Studying art as the concentrated manifestation of aesthetic consciousness materialized, to elucidate the nature of art, its content and form, categories, as well as the regularities of artistic creative activities, and issues such as the reflection, evaluation, and criticism of art as a reflection of such creative products.