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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Slobodan Marković
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2012-01-01
Series:i-Perception
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1068/i0450aap