Of all the categories that get mentioned in aesthetics (all those xxx's and
yyy's) --- the only two that are important are:
1. the things one prefers
2. the things one doesn't
That's what makes aesthetics different from all those areas of human concern
where personal preferences are marginal or irrelevant.
Aesthetics is about the probity of individual judgment rather than the
correctness of one theory or another.
The contents of these categories may change -- but at any one moment, a
snapshot of them is quite real and has important consequences (buying a ticket
to this play instead of that one)
All the other categories that get used ("art", "illustration", etc) are just
attempts at explanation/validation/promotion.
Maybe some of us believe such categories have a kind of eternal existence -
but I don't - I'm not convinced that Maurice Sendak does -
and even our resident professor emeritus of art and art theory doesn't seem to
take them all that seriously.
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