Roy, Sanjay K.2020-10-202020-10-2031-03-20202348-6538https://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/3582The purpose of the paper is not to do a review of the theories of art and aesthetics but to focus on the contrasting views of the two French scholars, Jean Paul Sartre and Claude Levi-Strauss with a view to prepare the launch-pad for an exploration into the world of art and aesthetics, without which, I firmly believe, there cannot be any form of creation (not even in the field of social sciences). It primarily deals with the contrasting views on the modes of aesthetic creations and examines whether aesthetics is founded on the concrete or is completely an act of imagination.enExistenceNatureAestheticsImaginationPerceptionNihilationArticle