On Dec 9, 2013, at 12:03 AM, armando baeza wrote: > "Aesthetic experiences" as i originally understood it, was that any thing > under the umbrella > between the two extremes of taste ,likes and dislikes. > good-bad,ugly-beauty,etc could > be an "aesthetic experience". > To me,that means that any sudden feeling of any kind from nature or man made > art could > be an aesthetic feeling. > The problem I see is that some people get a pleasant surprise feeling, while > others > may feel the opposite from the same experience. Yet both are really > "aesthetic > experiences",. > ab
Not for me. Someone recently sent me a series of precarious mountain-climbing photos. Every single one was scary. I guarantee I got a "sudden feeling" from some of them. But I have no inclination to call that feeling an "aesthetic experience". Why, though? I'm ready to call the experience occasioned in me by very disparate things like a Dickinson poem, a Hokusae wood print, and Beethoven's Ninth "aesthetic experiences", but not a photo of a gruesome car crash, or the photo of someone jumping out of the ninetieth floor on 9/11. Why? There'a lot to be learned about just what is going on when we hear a Mozart piano concerto, or watch Allegra Kent dancing L'aprhs-midi d'un faune.
