section_path: Derivative forms of aesthetics/Other approaches
section_name: Other approaches
paragraph_text: Other approaches
  
  Guy Sircello has pioneered efforts in analytic philosophy to develop a rigorous theory of aesthetics, focusing on the concepts of beauty, love and sublimity. In contrast to romantic theorists, Sircello argued for the objectivity of beauty and formulated a theory of love on that basis.
  
  British philosopher and theorist of conceptual art aesthetics, Peter Osborne, makes the point that "' post-conceptual art ' aesthetic does not concern a particular type of contemporary art so much as the historical- ontological condition for the production of contemporary art in general...". Osborne noted that contemporary art is 'post-conceptual' in a public lecture delivered in 2010.
  
  Gary Tedman has put forward a theory of a subjectless aesthetics derived from Karl Marx 's concept of alienation, and Louis Althusser 's antihumanism, using elements of Freud's group psychology, defining a concept of the 'aesthetic level of practice'.
  
  Gregory Loewen has suggested that the subject is key in the interaction with the aesthetic object. The work of art serves as a vehicle for the projection of the individual's identity into the world of objects, as well as being the irruptive source of much of what is uncanny in modern life. As well, art is used to memorialize individuated biographies in a manner that allows persons to imagine that they are part of something greater than themselves.