But an exquisite combination of sculptural form, color, surface and craftsmanship elevates each to a transcendental realm of pure aesthetic contemplation.

Photographers may not have to ask permission before turning their subjects into objects of aesthetic contemplation, but should they?

Ms. Dill's sculptures are less visual objects for detached aesthetic contemplation than knotty philosophical puzzles that use sculpture as a launching pad.

Salvation, deliverance, and escape from suffering are in aesthetic contemplation, sympathy for others, and asceticism.

Hiroshige was not a mandarin composing pictures for purely aesthetic contemplation by the cultivated few.

Employees were assigned to watch silently over it - no reading was allowed on the job, lest their distraction disrupt the aura of aesthetic contemplation.

The chair, a recurring motif in Tàpies' works, alludes to a meditative attitude and to aesthetic contemplation.

But one of the lessons Vienna can teach us today is the peril of withdrawing into the hermetic world of aesthetic contemplation.

A temporary way to escape this pain is through aesthetic contemplation (a method comparable to Zapffe's "Sublimation").

Ritual efficacy rather than aesthetic contemplation is its goal.