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Varieties of Aesthetic Experience: On the Affective Potential of Art

Varieties of Aesthetic Experience: On the Affective Potential of Art

Roald, Tone

Paperback

PhilosophyArt Criticism & TheoryGeneral Psychology

PREORDER - Expected ship date February 23, 2027

ISBN10: 1503648737
ISBN13: 9781503648739
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: Feb 23 2027
Pages: 216
Language: English

Tone Roald creates a new foundation for aesthetics by taking seriously real-life experiences with works of art. Relying upon descriptions of experiences with art in the autobiographical and literary texts of St. Augustine, Denis Diderot, Stendahl, Virginia Woolf, and Proust, as well as fifteen-years' worth of interviews with museumgoers about their most intense experiences with visual arts, Roald explores the variety of aesthetic experiences available to us throughout history and articulates why experiences with art remain important today. The book draws upon phenomenological psychology, psychoanalysis, and cultural theory to articulate a taxonomy of basic affective experiences with art. What affect is, what affective experiences with art are like, and what meanings these experiences have for us have been limited in aesthetic theory. Beginning with pleasure, continuing with wonder and resonance, and ending with rapture and serenity, she notably reveals similarities in aesthetic experience across history. Roald's work seeks a democratization of art; not concerned with the correct interpretation of the work of art or with idealized responses to art, this eye-opening new approach grants primacy to experience--historical and contemporary--and lays an experiential foundation for the development of a different kind of aesthetic theory.

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