Acknowledging the diversity of aesthetic experiences: effects of style, meaning and context.

Author(s)
Helmut Leder
Abstract

Art can be experienced in numerous ways, ranging from sensory pleasure to elaborated ways of finding meaning (Leder et al. 2004). However, rather ignored by Bullot & Reber (B&R), in empirical aesthetics several lines of research have studied how knowledge of artistic style, descriptive and elaborate information, expertise, and context all affect aesthetic experiences from art. Limiting aesthetics to rather rare experiences unnecessarily narrows the scope of a science of art.

Organisation(s)
Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology
Journal
Behavioral and Brain Sciences: an international journal of current research and theory with open peer commentary
Volume
36
Pages
149-150
ISSN
0140-525X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X12001690
Publication date
04-2013
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
501011 Cognitive psychology, 501001 General psychology
Portal url
https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/acknowledging-the-diversity-of-aesthetic-experiences-effects-of-style-meaning-and-context(b8d26eb8-ef1a-4679-8b21-717270e1d9be).html