As Derek once asked, "What *is* an "aesthetic experience"?" --- and perhaps not everyone here would say that they had such things - or even if we all would -- it's quite likely that we use the phrase differently.
As Mando would say -- it's a "Wow!" kind of experience -- and perhaps we would all agree -- but beyond that ? For example both Cheerskep and I like to watch sports -- but I would never call any of those experiences "aesthetic" - however exciting/intense they may be. Last week -- I saw an animated mural at our local natural history museum. It made me feel like I was immersed in a primeval forest and about to get trampled by a herd of woolly mammoth -- a very big WoW! for me -- but I would save the term "aesthetic experience" for what I felt from some of the Southwest Indian painted jars in another part of the exhibit. Perhaps no one else here would make that kind of distinction. Though I still agree with Cheerskep that expert advice has never caused me to derive an aesthetic experience from a work that did not occasion it before. (and I'm still waiting to read a specific counter example) ____________________________________________________________ Save on Trade Schools - Click here. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/Ioyw6ijngXBHjt6K4ObtF0SYW7bnSi Jb2hoPN7pFCon3Vfe6SMf1jO/
