Title: What Can the Aesthetic Movement Tell Us about Aesthetic Education?
Abstract: In his preface to The Renaissance, Walter Pater immediately engages his readers by according them pride of place in the triangular relationship between artist, work of art, and audience.' He does so by singling out the individual aesthetic experience as the first step toward aesthetic judgment, a step not only for the aesthetic critic but, as the reader-response critic Louise Roesenblatt argues, for everybody experiencing a work of art.2 According to Pater, the questions we must ask first of all when faced with a work of art are the apparently simple ones:
Publication Year: 2001
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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