1. Chapter 15, Art and the Aesthetic
Key Terms

2. art When something's purely utilitarian or functional nature is modified for the purpose of enhancing it's aesthetic qualities and thus making it more pleasurable for our senses. 
aesthetic Qualities that make objects, actions, or language more beautiful or pleasurable, according to culturally relative and variable standards.

3. body arts Artificial artistic enhancement or beautification of the human body by painting, tattooing, scarification, or other means. 
visual arts Arts that are produced in a material or tangible form, including basketry, pottery, textiles, paintings, drawings, sculptures, masks, carvings, and the like.

4. performance arts Forms of art such as music, percussion, song, dance, and drama that involve sound and/or stylized body movements.