In a message dated 2/27/10 3:14:34 PM, [email protected] writes:
> Similarly, when Kate quotes my phrase, "cerebal-vs-visceral", and > comments: > "I thought it had to do both," she's right and wrong: Agreed, it always > has > to be both, but the point I was trying to stress, the fact I'd never > sufficiently focused on in the past, was that the relative proportions > vary > greatly; the degree of cerebrality called on by some works can far less > than it is > in others. And yet they can both occasion an a.e.. > Sunsets don't result in a great deal of thought(cerebrality) unless you understand a lot about them or have burdened yourself with a lot of cultural references. A sunset to a lot of people is just pretty, what Cheeerskep would claim as an a.e. (which is still a terrible way of referring to what is supposed tobe one of the prime concerns of this list,too damn lazy to spell it out.) Perhaps works of art are more likely to produce a balance of thought and feeling in the aesthetic experience than are natural phenomena etc. This could be a reason to focus more on works of art(any art) than on other aesthetic experiences. Kate Sullivan
