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Acknowledging the diversity of aesthetic experiences: Effects of style, meaning, and context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 March 2013

Helmut Leder
Helmut Leder*
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Department of Psychological Basic Research, University of Vienna, 1010 Vienna, Austria. helmut.leder@univie.ac.at http://www.univie.ac.at/en/university/
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Abstract

Art can be experienced in numerous ways, ranging from sensory pleasure to elaborated ways of finding meaning (Leder et al. 2004). However, rather ignored by Bullot & Reber (B&R), in empirical aesthetics several lines of research have studied how knowledge of artistic style, descriptive and elaborate information, expertise, and context all affect aesthetic experiences from art. Limiting aesthetics to rather rare experiences unnecessarily narrows the scope of a science of art.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , April 2013 , pp. 149 - 150
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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