I would probably agree with Cheerskep because most of us start
getting them
from early childhood, if one agrees that A.E.'s come in all
intensities. Big WOWs are rare,
even to artists themselves.
mando
.
On Oct 9, 2008, at 8:57 AM, Chris Miller wrote:
Cheerskep has submitted (in CAPS no less!): "NEVER, NOT ONCE, HAS A
COMMENT OR
ILLUMINATING OBSERVATION BY AN EXPERT CAUSED ME
TO DERIVE AN AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE FROM A WORK THAT DID NOT OCCASION
IT IN ME
BEFORE."
So.. I'm wondering if anyone else would say the same ?
I would have a problem with the "NEVER, NOT ONCE" phrase -- because
I'm not
sure when I first had something that I would now call an aesthetic
experience
- i.e. something more than just an enjoyable moment - but something
that would
make me exclaim "Wow --what a trip! and then remember it as special
and worth
trying to repeat.
I remember having that experience with some of the first novels
that I read
-- like "Count of Monte Cristo" -- and later with my first jazz
records and
some landscape paintings in the local museum.
Yes -- maybe I do agree with Cheerskep-- since these experiences
were all so
private -- and had nothing to do with expert advice being given or
received.
Though I do think that expert advice has a necessary role in the
maintainance
of each of the traditions that made those things available to me --
and would
agree with William that these things were
"not made for ordinary lookers but for some elusive standard of
excellence, based on the excellences already evident to the most
expert
judges."
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