Components of Aesthetic Experience: Aesthetic Fascination, Aesthetic Appraisal, and Aesthetic Emotion
In this paper aesthetic experience is defined as an experience qualitatively different from everyday experience and similar to other exceptional states of mind. Three crucial characteristics of aesthetic experience are discussed: fascination with an aesthetic object (high arousal and attention), app...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2012-01-01
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Series: | i-Perception |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1068/i0450aap |