Of optimal views and other anxieties of attending to the beautiful and sublime
Subject(s): Aesthetic experience | anxiety | beauty | essentialism | posing | self-consciousness | sublime In: Journal of Visual Culture 1(1)Summary: A meditation on how intrusions of self-consciousness alter, upset, or interrupt aesthetic experiences. The focus is on the impulse to identify optimum moments in sunsets, fall foliage, etc., and possible explanations for this urge to identify the optimum.Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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A meditation on how intrusions of self-consciousness alter, upset, or interrupt aesthetic experiences. The focus is on the impulse to identify optimum moments in sunsets, fall foliage, etc., and possible explanations for this urge to identify the optimum.