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Aesthetic art, 115 -16, 132 -42

"Aesthetic experience," 103 , 104 -5

Aesthetics, 1 , 10 -19 passim ;

alternative, 70 ;

art criticism and, 42 ;

of pleasure, 11 , 25 -27, 43 , 51 , 89 , 104 , 105 , 138 ;

Rousseau's, 103 -4.

See also Art

Agriculture:

and consumption, 62 -63;

Diderot and, 54 ;

Ledoux and, 99 ;

Physiocrats and, 55 -56, 85 ;

primitive past, 92 , 94 -96

Alembert, Jean le Rond d', 43

Amateurs, 18 , 50 -52, 106 , 110 , 114

L'Ami des hommes (Mirabeau), 54 -55, 88

Analyse des ouvrages de Jean-Jacques Rousseau et de Court de Gébelin (Le Gros), 93

L'An 2440 (Mercier), 85 -91

Angiviller, Comte d', 134 , 135

Antiquity, 50 , 56 , 64 -65, 69 , 88 -89, 114 , 133

Appearances, 9 , 30 -33, 34 , 63 -66, 118 -31

Architecture, 58 , 92 -93, 97 , 98 -99

L'Architecture (Ledoux), 96 -100

Argenson, Marquis d', 55

Art, 2 -3, 28 ;

aesthetic, 115 -16, 132 -42;

"agreeable," 52 -53, 129 -30;

art history, 1 -5, 18 -19, 26 ;

baroque, 14 -24, 28 , 42 , 47 , 50 , 51 -53, 58 , 69 , 78 , 97 , 99 , 105 -6, 120 -22, 128 , 142 ;

criticism, 42 -58, 90 , 92 , 104 ;

ennui and, 26 , 89 , 104 , 105 ;

and fashion, 106 -7, 118 -31;

fine, 57 ;

High, 21 ;

liberal, 57 ;

and luxury, 14 -24, 42 , 49 , 51 , 52 -58, 78 , 105 , 108 , 114 , 118 , 133 , 134 ;

mechanical, 57 ;

and nature, 48 , 50 , 52 , 102 , 105 ;

rococo, 1 -3, 69 , 140 , 142 ;

Rousseau and, 103 -4;

women and, 19 -24, 49 , 51 , 107 .

See also Taste

Art as Experience (Dewey), 1

Attraction, cosmic, 98 -99

Augustus, Age of, 17 , 112

Austen, Jane, 66 , 105