Re: "...Aesthetics collapsed in 1970 under the weight of Theodor Adorno's Aesthetic Theory."

[Saul Ostrow]

I would pretty much agree with this William - but also note that at one time
- certain aspects of cognition  and psychology seemed to be thought an
important part of  aesthetics as were  the comparative study of culture -
Alois Riegl is a good example of this