Overview

​This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience and aesthetic objects. Written by leading philosophers, psychologists, literary scholars and semioticians, the book addresses two intertwined issues. The first is related to the phenomenology of aesthetic experience: The understanding of how human beings respond to artworks, how we process linguistic or visual information, and what properties in artworks trigger aesthetic experiences. The examination of the properties of aesthetic experience reveals essential aspects of our perceptual, cognitive, and semiotic capacities.  The second issue studied in this volume is related to the ontology of the work of art: Written or visual artworks are a specific type of objects, containing particular kinds of representation which elicit a particular kind of experience. The research question explored is: What properties in artful objects trigger this type of experience, and what characterizes representation in written and visual artworks? Thevolume sets the scene for state-of-the-art inquiries in the intersection between the psychology and ontology of art. The investigations of the relation between the properties of artworks and the characteristics of aesthetic experience increase our insight into what art is. In addition, they shed light on essential properties of human meaning-making in general.

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Author:   Peer F. Bundgaard ,  Frederik Stjernfelt
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   2015 ed.
Volume:   81
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   5.817kg
ISBN:  

9783319140896

ISBN 10:   3319140892
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   30 June 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Peer F. Bundgaard.- Temporal aspects of literary reading; David S. Miall.- Memory and mental states in the appreciation of literature; Marisa Bortolussi and Peter Dixon.- Temporal conflict in the reading experience; Cathrine Kietz.- The aesthetic experience with visual art “at first glance”; Paul J. Locher.- What is a surface? In the real world? And pictures?; John M. Kennedy and Marta Wnuczko.- The idiosyncrasy of beauty: Aesthetic universals and the diversity of taste; Patrick Colm Hogan.- Why we are not all novelists; Shaun Gallagher.- Aesthetic relationship, cognition, and the pleasures of art; Jean-Marie Schaeffer.- More seeing-in: surface seeing, design seeing, and meaning seeing in pictures; Peer F. Bundgaard.- Depiction; John Hyman.- Green war banners in central Copenhagen: A recent political struggle over interpretation — and some implications for art interpretation as such; Frederik Stjernfelt.- The appropriation of the work of art as a semiotic act; FrancisÉdeline and Jean-Marie Klinkenberg.- Sculpture, diagram, and language in the artwork of Joseph Beuys; Wolfgang Wildgen. Index.

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Peer Bundgaard is professor at the Center for Semiotics, Aarhus University, and is the Editor-in-Chief of Cognitive Semiotics. Frederik Stjernfelt is professor at the Center for Semiotics, Aarhus University, and is member of the Danish Academy as well as the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. Post-doctoral habilitation Diagrammatology (Springer 2007). He is also a guest professor at Humboldt University Berlin 2010.

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