Meaning of aestheticalness | Babel Free

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The quality of being aesthetic.

uncountable

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“She has a feeling, she says, that I should be practical with a smitchin of aestheticalness or something about me.”

“Only recently have⟳ semioticians shown a renewed interest⟳ in aesthetic features of nature. Thus, Sebeok (1981) has studied prefigurements of visual art and music with animals, and Koch (1984) has developed a phylogenetic theory of the evolution of the arts, based on earlier universal theories of aestheticalness (cf. Koch 1971b).”

“Today one such theory can be found in the work⟳ of aesthetician Jan Mukařovský who contends that anything can become⟳ the vehicle for the aesthetic function and so anything can become⟳ art. Aestheticalness is not connected with the intrinsic characteristics of things, but is something external to them, in this case their usage (the use⟳ of the things, no matter⟳ what they are) which, at a given time t and in a given space s, a given culture c turns them into art.”

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