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AESTHETIC

FUNCTIONALISM
WHAT IS AESTHETICS?

Aesthetics, also spelled esthetics, the


philosophical study of beauty and taste. It is closely
related to the philosophy of art, which is concerned
with the nature of art and the concepts in terms of
which individual works of art are interpreted and
evaluated.
WHAT IS AESTHETIC FUNCTIONALISM

an arrangement of conditions intended to be


capable of affording an experience with marked
aesthetic character or (incidentally) an
arrangement belonging to a class or type of
arrangements that is typically intended to have this
capacity.
AESTHETIC FUNCTIONALISM QUESTIONS…

WHAT IS IT FOR?
• According to the strongest version of aesthetic
functionalism, aesthetic value is completely determined
by and therefore reducible to practical function.

• According to the opposite view, function and aesthetic


value are completely independent of each other.
AESTHETIC FUNCTIONALISM ...

IN ART IN ARCHITECTURE

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