Matakuliah : R0434/Aesthetics
Tahun
: 2007
Introduction
Pertemuan 1 s.d 2
Etymology, Terminology
and History of Aesthetics
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The term aesthetics comes from the greek ‘aisthetike’ and
was coined by the philosopher Alexander Gottlieb
Baumgarten in 1735 to means ‘the science of how things are
known via senses’
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Latin form : Aesthetica (Baumgarten)
English form : Aesthetics (David Hume)
English :
‘the standard of taste’ or ‘judgments of taste’
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‘aesthetics’ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
• 1. the study of the aesthetics (all the aesthetic phenomena
• 2.the study of perception (of such phenomena)
• 3. the study of art (as a specific perception of what is perceived as
aesthetic).
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* Aesthetic phenomena
* Perception
* Art
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Perception
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Art
Van Gogh
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Picasso
Ancient Aesthetics
The Aztec World
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The Aztec World
QUETZALCOATL – The
Aztec’s God of Learning and
the Arts
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The Aztec Calendar Stone
The Actec World
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The Aztec World
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The Aztec world
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The Ancient Greek
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The Ancient greek
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The Ancient Greek
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