Aesthetics of presence: philosophical and practical reconsiderations

In the field of aesthetic experiences, presence must be seen as mental activities such as attention, curiosity, and participation. The mere physical 'being-there' guarantees no aesthetic responses to artistic or natural appearances. When aesthetics became part of the discourse in eighteent...

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1. Verfasser: Sauter, Willmar 1947- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Newcastle-upon-Tyne Cambridge Scholars Publisher 2021
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Zusammenfassung:In the field of aesthetic experiences, presence must be seen as mental activities such as attention, curiosity, and participation. The mere physical 'being-there' guarantees no aesthetic responses to artistic or natural appearances. When aesthetics became part of the discourse in eighteenth-century Enlightenments philosophy, the beholder was the centre of interest: how observations turned into aesthetic experiences. In this book, the spectator, reader, listener and viewer have again become the focus of scholarly attention, replacing the century-long dominance of the artwork as exclusive object
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ISBN:9781527563308

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