aestheticistn.adj.

1851 Ecclesiologist Apr. 88 The Cambridge Camden Society, and aestheticists of the day, have been dishonest enough to conceal their obligations to this work.

1868 Chronicle No. 44. 86/1 Those æstheticists of the future.

1924 H. Carter New Theatre Soviet Russia 70 The æstheticist, painter, sculptor, poet or any other is dead; the constructionist takes his place.

1965 Philos. Sci. 32 388 The actions of the aestheticist which fall outside the domain of the ethical.

2006 M. W. Jackson Harmonious Triads viii. 267 Such responses might satisfy the ‘pure aestheticists (reinen Ästhetiker)’ and the ‘practical technicians (praktischen Techniker)’, but not the ‘acousticians (Akustiker)’.

1899 Crit. Rev. Theol. & Philos. Lit. July 319 In the Reden—which we must not regard as essentially esoteric—he [sc. Schleiermacher] was aestheticist, romanticist, Spinozist.

1959 W. H. Sokel Writer in Extremis v. 119 The Neo-Romantic aestheticist generation that immediately preceded them [sc. the Expressionists].

1978 R. Von Hallberg C. Olson iii. 92 The Objectivist poetics are aestheticist in the sense that the artifact, the poem, transcends its maker and gains its value from its state of being—its objectification.

1988 L. Hutcheon Canad. Postmodern i. 2 Yet another form of (late) modernism, the logical extreme of its aesthetic (and aestheticist) tenets and its romantic faith in the imagination.

2010 D. Gasper & T.-D. Truong in S. L. Esquith & F. Gifford Capabilities, Power, & Inst. iv. 82 But an aesthetic stance need not be aestheticist.