Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art Task Force of WikiProject Arts and WikiProject Philosophy

Welcome to the Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art Task Force, a task force of WikiProject Philosophy and WikiProject Arts. The task force is a group of pages in the "Wikipedia" article namespace which are devoted to the management of a specific topic or family of topics within Wikipedia; and, simultaneously, a group of editors who use those pages to collaborate on encyclopedic work. It is not a place to write encyclopedia articles directly, but a resource to help coordinate and organize the writing and editing of those articles. This group focuses on articles in the field of Aesthetics.

Getting started

There are a few things you can do right now to get started helping the task force and the project.

• Add yourself to the Participants Roster.

• Watchlist and monitor the Aesthetics log.

• Watchlist and monitor the General Discussion.

• Add {{User WP Aesthetics}} to your user page. It will automatically add you to Category:Aesthetics task force members. You may also choose to place the Aesthetics navigation banner on your user page as well by adding {{Aesthetics/Nav}}.

Scope and Goals

The current focus of the Aesthetics task force is to create a representative presence of philosophy of aesthetics on Wikipedia. Aesthetics is a large and complex field, especially since the boom of works in the 20th century. The vast amount of information is too much for one or two people to handle. The coordinative effort of all those willing to assist is needed.

Category tree

[−] Aesthetics [+] Aesthetics literature [+] Aniconism [+] Art genres [+] Art manifestos [+] Art movements [+] Philosophers of art [+] Beauty [+] Concepts in aesthetics [+] Design [+] Human appearance [+] Japanese aesthetics [+] Musicology [+] New Criticism [+] Philosophy of music [+] Phonaesthetics [+] Psychoanalysis [+] Symmetry [+] Theories of aesthetics [+] Visual arts theory

Pages Needing Attention

• Aesthetics, JeffC thinks its almost ready for FA nomination, can we get it there?
• Recent changes to Category:Aesthetics and aesthetics topics
• Recent changes to project watchlists: Watchlist 1(top importance articles), Watchlist 2(rest of the articles)

Aesthetics task force assessment statistics Aesthetics articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 1 1 GA 2 2 B 1 14 21 23 59 C 1 8 26 24 7 66 Start 3 41 102 68 214 Stub 5 33 81 77 196 List 1 1 2 1 5 Assessed 2 32 124 232 153 543 Unassessed 1 1 Total 2 32 124 233 153 544 worklist • log • category

Templates

v • d • e Aesthetics and philosophy of art Related articles Aesthetics of music · Applied aesthetics · Architecture · Art · Arts criticism · Gastronomy · History of aesthetics (pre-20th-century) · History of painting · Humour · Literary merit · Mathematics and art · Mathematical beauty · Painting · Philosophy of film · Philosophy of music · Poetry · Sculpture · Tragedy · Concepts in aesthetics Aesthetic emotions · Art manifesto · Art object · Avant-garde · Beauty · Boring · Comedy · Camp · Creativity · Cute · Discordant · Disgusting · Ecstasy · Elegance · Eroticism · Entertainment · Fun · Gaze · Harmony · Interpretation · Judgment · Kitsch · Perception · Pretentious · Rasa · Style · Sublime · Taste · more... Theories of aesthetics Symbolism · Romanticism · Historicism · Classicism · Modernism · Postmodernism · Psychoanalytic theory · more... Philosophers of art Theodor W. Adorno · Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten · Arthur Schopenhauer · David Hume · Friedrich Nietzsche · Georg Hegel · Immanuel Kant · Jean-François Lyotard · Joseph Margolis · Martin Heidegger · Nelson Goodman · Richard Wollheim · Thierry de Duve · George Santayana · Hubert Dreyfus · John Dewey · Friedrich Schiller · György Lukács · Jacques Maritain · Bernard Bosanquet · Clive Bell · I. A. Richards · José Ortega y Gasset · R. G. Collingwood · David Prall · Dewitt H. Parker · Edward Bullough · Irving Singer · Roger Fry · Stephen Pepper · Susanne Langer · Theodor Lipps · Thomas Munro · Curt John Ducasse · Arthur Danto · more ... Portal · Category · Task Force · Stubs · Discussion

• For main project templates, see the Philosophy Templates.

Project page tag

Putting {{philosophy|Aesthetics=yes}} at the top of a page will add this notice to it:

WikiProject Philosophy	(Rated NA-Class)	PhilosophyWikipedia:WikiProject PhilosophyTemplate:PhilosophyPhilosophy articles
Philosophy portal v • d • e This page is within the scope of the WikiProject Philosophy, which collaborates on articles related to philosophy. To participate, you can edit this article or visit the project page for more details.  NA  This page does not require a rating on the project's quality scale. Further information and related task forces:   Aesthetics

This message should be placed at the top of the talk pages of all aesthetics articles, especially:

• articles that members of the WikiProject are actively trying to improve.
• articles about major aesthetics topics.
• articles that need special attention.

Userbox

The template {{User WP Aesthetics}} will add the following userbox to your user page, and add you to the Category:Aesthetics task force members and Category:WikiProject Philosophy members

Recognized content

Featured articles

• Poetry
• Søren Kierkegaard

Good Articles

• David Hume
• Edmund Burke
• Either/Or
• Oscar Wilde

Did You Know (DYK)s

Formerly recognized content

Former featured articles

Former good articles

• Aristotle
• Ayn Rand

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 selections

• Aesthetics
• Aristotle
• Art
• Beauty
• David Hume
• Edmund Burke
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Immanuel Kant
• Leo Tolstoy
• Oscar Wilde
• Plato
• Poetry
• Søren Kierkegaard

Participants

Aesthetics task force

• B.K.S.J. (talk · contribs)
• Gregbard (talk · contribs)
• JEN9841 (talk · contribs)
• MicrocreditSA (talk · contribs) I am interested in aesthetic aspects of Social Thought
• Sagan666 (talk · contribs)