My understanding of ART & Aesthetics is : any form of literature , Art (Literary,visual,musical) that does not lift my soul even a few inches above from where I was before that Artistic venture,should have no use fot me or be called 'ART'.
To me hyping of excitement or vital energy is not art'

ART is a form of 'Incense - burning' where the self or soul is expanding with lifting-up result.
Stimulation of'vitalenergy or glands ,to raise physcal passion ,is, perhaps , not Art .

AESTHETICS, to me ,is a very difficult word to define .It is ,otherwise a stae or evrironment created or formed around one that induces a state or condition that inspires the awareness of a better and happier state of soul-condition or being.

SOME RED-SIGNALS ON THE HIGH-WAY OF 21st Century : P Einstei and Planck ,through quantum Technology has given the modern world many great rewards but some dangerous possibilities too : a)Nuclear bombs in 1940s have given us the first warning. II. ) now even brief-case bombs, potential mobile bombs, liquid bombs(Air-travel hazards and horror) are playing Heisenberg's uncertainty.III. Even information technology is breaking down the peace and living desires of nations and societies. IV, Even TVs, a gift of Quantum technology that brought so many positive promises to the community -world now threatensto beak down the Quiet life with pornographic visual excitements and hormonal stimulus , even to under-age or geriatric recluse like me.

FALSE ECONOMY and DAMNED LIES:
Some where I read that there are three types of statistics e.g lies ,...badlies , ..and damned lies !
let me tell it in story form : 'Once upon a time' { a good start for any story).. there was or still is a country with a single village and only ten people, They were very poor. .....Some time ,afterwards one of them, young, went to Dubai and after a decade , came back to his village country with million dollar savings and reported it to his govt. Though the other nine persons were as poor as before ,the finance minister of the village-country published that the per-capita income of that village-country was 100,000/-$,per yr/per head. So even though the other nine was still starving ,paradoxically, each one was ,statistically, a lakhpati on $ terms or a millionaire on Rs-value.?
Well, surging ahead in Economy with starving villagers left behind can tell strange stories like 'damned lies' --- pibi