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Aesthetic emotions
Aesthetic emotions are emotions, such as beauty, awe, being moved, and wonder, that directly contribute to aesthetic evaluation of art, nature, or design; central constructs include Menninghaus's four-feature account, the Aesthemos scale, and the Skov–Nadal dispute over whether they form a distinct emotion class.
Analytic aesthetics
Analytic aesthetics is the practice of aesthetics and philosophy of art within the analytic tradition of philosophy, using conceptual analysis and formal logic, emerging around the mid-20th century.
Depiction
Depiction, or pictorial representation, is the relation by which pictures represent objects. Key theories: resemblance (Plato, Hyman, Abell), Goodman's conventionalism, Wollheim's seeing-in, Walton's make-believe, and challenges from AI-generated synthetic images.
Languages of Art
Languages of Art (1968, 2nd ed. 1976) is Nelson Goodman's analytic-aesthetics treatise on symbol systems: denotation, exemplification, expression; rejection of resemblance in depiction; density versus notational systems.
Nelson Goodman
Nelson Goodman (1906–1998), American philosopher of the grue paradox, mereology, irrealism, and the symbol theory of Languages of Art; taught at Penn, Brandeis, and Harvard, founding Project Zero.