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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

"Three lectures on Aesthetic" by Bernard Bosanquet,1915


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Aesthetic experience is distinguishable from other experience in that it is pleasant,stable,relevant,and common.
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The aesthetic experience is contemplative,not practical ;
it is organizational,and both personal and general.
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The aesthetic response is a response to form and substance in an appearance,requiring the imagination,and resulting in the pleasant awareness of a feeling embodied in the appearance.
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The most satisfying aesthetic experience is realized when the artist forms his work in harmony with the character of his medium.
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In its proper sense,beauty is what is common to artistic products insofar as they are
excellent ; beauty may be easy or difficult ;
difficult beauty is characterized by intricacy,tension,and width -that is,
it is complex,provokes heightened feelings,and demands breadth of interest.
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