Aesthetic: A philosophy of the beautiful: criteria which define art (or television) as good or bad. Also used to refer to determining factors of television that are neither technological or economic.

 

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Aesthetic: A philosophy of the beautiful: criteria which define art (or television) as good or bad. Also used to refer to determining factors of television that are neither technological or economic.

Aesthetic Zoning: Zoning for beauty. May regulate architectural styles, colors or signage.

Aesthetic Distance: An effect of tone, diction, and presentation in poetry creating a sense of an experience removed from irrelevant or accidental events. This sense of intentional focus seems intentionally org . . . View Full Definition

Aesthetic Movement: A literary belief that art is its own justification and purpose, advocated in england by walter pater and practised by edgar allan poe, algernon charles swinburne, oscar wilde, and others.

Veneer: Extremely thin sheets of wood. Also a thin slice of wood or brick or stone covering a framed wall.

Scansion: The scanning of verse, that is, dividing it into metrical feet and identifying its rhythm by encoding stressed syllables (stresses, ictus) and unstressed syllables (slacks). Conventional eng . . . View Full Definition

Enlightenment: (also called the neoclassic movement) the philosophical and artistic movement growing out of the Renaissance and continuing until the nineteenth century. The Enlightenment was an optimistic . . . View Full Definition

Versification: Literally, the making of verse, the term is often used as another name for prosody. This refers to the technical and practical aspect of making poems as opposed to purely theoretical and aes . . . View Full Definition

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Realism: A loosely applied term used to describe a painting that looks 'real' or has a strong or unpleasant subject.