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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Main Author: Sauter, Willmar 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle-upon-Tyne Cambridge Scholars Publisher 2021
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Summary: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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 206 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781527563308

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