Although Whitehead never developed his interpretation
of aesthetic experience very far, 6 we can deepen our understanding of artistic expression by attention to the theories of Merleau - Ponty.
Not exact matches
Once again, it seems that the
very aesthetic emphasis which Hall shares with Whitehead involves the idea that the values
of the subject enter into its
experience of the object.
The burden
of the preceding discussion is to suggest that technology, with all its problems, is not a monolithic entity whose
very touch brings the death
of creativity and
aesthetic experience, but an integral aspect
of human personal and social existence, with all the richness and ambiguity
of human life itself.
«In these instances, music is typically the central source
of these
experiences, and
aesthetic qualities were
very much involved in the
experienced pleasure.
Yet they impart this perception without regret, as if our transient awareness were not only without tragedy, but constituted the
very essence
of aesthetic experience.
Without draining his works
of the pleasurable aspect
of looking, Bernadet paints the pieces whose
aesthetic beauty conceals a more sinister subversion
of the
very means by which that
experience is delivered to us — our visual senses.
His meticulously executed snatches
of the real world are executed with the minute precision
of higher mathematics; and yet what seem to be
very cool, unemotional artworks, embracing a quietist
aesthetic, turn out to set off an intensely emotional
experience.
From 1987 to 1994, he produced the 104 windows for the abbey
of Conques (the
very same place where he had his first profound
aesthetic experience).
In 2007, Dan Fox wrote for frieze magazine, «for Moffett, painting is used as a kind
of aesthetic compressor concentrating the
very real concerns and complexities
of identity politics and human sexuality into a hard - hitting, high - tension visual
experience.»