The first of our two schemes is framed in terms of the hierarchical structure of nature and the second in
terms of aesthetic experience.
Not exact matches
Doing a long series
of arithmetical calculations or working all day entering data at a computer terminal may result in almost total «an - aesthesia,» while proving a new mathematical theorem or writing a complex computer program may bring about intense involvement and the enjoyment
of vivid immediate
experience.8 «
Aesthetic»
experience in the more usual sense
of tile
term can also y ~ ry fi - om trivial to highly intense, even when it relates to a single object; one is reminded
of the cliche situation in which one member
of a couple listens in rapture to a concert while the other writhes in boredom.
Other than an
aesthetic overhaul and a better lit screen, the Oasis has nothing significant to add in
terms of the software
experience.
As an
aesthetic flaw, I would say it is only when this is done clumsily — as when a character blurts out «press X to make me jump» — that it causes any degree
of rupture (my
term for being wrenched out
of imagined
experience).
Rather than
experiencing transcendence from something hidden within the painting or from some interpretive element in the work, the only transcendent
experience Stella intended for viewers
of these paintings to have came from the psychological relief
of being allowed to interact with an
aesthetic object on its own
terms.
As it had been for Fry, «
aesthetic unity» was what mattered most to Greenberg, and
aesthetic unity at its most subtle and refined collapsed the material
terms into as concentrated and self - sufficient a form as possible, making the work seem autonomous and hermetic — at the least, totally independent
of literary and anecdotal considerations, to recall Bell, and as such a purely
aesthetic experience.
I focused on how to make paintings self - subsisting entities —
experienced on their own
terms despite any
aesthetic relationship to history or the projections
of others.