In a message dated 12/11/13 4:12:31 PM, [email protected] writes:
> I have experience similar feelings in sport watching, and i many > other situations, even perhaps elections that hang on to the last count. > True enough, Mando. You're right to cite political events that often unfold in such a way as to occasion a feeling that I'm inclined say involves at least some aspect of "aesthetic". Other real life events also come close enough to prompt "artists" to go to work. Inevitably when an artist has at the material, they change the facts . CHARIOTS OF FIRE won four Oscars (music, best movie, best screenplay, best costume design). I enjoyed it immensely, but because I'm a track and field buff, I was jarred by the amount of sheer invention in the story. Though the philosopher C.J. Ducasse, a celebrated philosopher of aesthetics seventy five years ago, in effect rejected "realistic" "drama" as "art", saying the feeling it occasions is not aesthetic but "vicarious".
