"I would suggest that an aesthetics without confabulation, is an aesthetics that is so purely theoretical that it doesn't need actual contact with any works of art to be practiced." Miller
It is entirely possible to have an aesthetics without any works of art to illustrate it. Aesthetics is the philosophy of beauty. I think it's easily recognized that beauty exists as an outlook, and what I'd call a belief, that can be applied to any experience whatsoever. Ditto for art. The two concepts, beauty and art, do not need to be conjoined or even interdependent beliefs. To say that art is inherently beautiful is true or false for only some art some of the time and only that which -- for many reasons -- metaphorically embodies a subjectively -- and always dissolving -- beautiful belief. wc
