I feel like we see and aesthetically judge, though our previous
experiences,
super imposed on the new perceptions.
mando
On Aug 31, 2009, at 7:03 AM, William Conger wrote:
"I would suggest that an aesthetics without confabulation, is an
aesthetics
that is so purely theoretical that it doesn't need actual contact
with any
works of art to be practiced." Miller
It is entirely possible to have an aesthetics without any works of
art to illustrate it. Aesthetics is the philosophy of beauty. I
think it's easily recognized that beauty exists as an outlook, and
what I'd call a belief, that can be applied to any experience
whatsoever. Ditto for art. The two concepts, beauty and art, do
not need to be conjoined or even interdependent beliefs. To say
that art is inherently beautiful is true or false for only some art
some of the time and only that which -- for many reasons --
metaphorically embodies a subjectively -- and always dissolving --
beautiful belief.
wc
