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Aesthetics. Pacific languages seem to be deficient in terms to express
appreciation of or reactions to art, apart from a few that ... At a fairly simple level,
aesthetic appreciation is expressed as approval of the manner in which a work
has been ...
Aesthetics. Pacific languages seem to be deficient in terms to express
appreciation of or reactions to art, apart from a few that ... At a fairly simple level,
aesthetic appreciation is expressed as approval of the manner in which a work
has been ...
Page 695
A piece of driftwood may have aesthetic qualities, but it is not a work of art since it
was not made by man. ... when works of art are spoken of, the intention is to
denote a much narrower range of objects, namely, those responded to
aesthetically.
A piece of driftwood may have aesthetic qualities, but it is not a work of art since it
was not made by man. ... when works of art are spoken of, the intention is to
denote a much narrower range of objects, namely, those responded to
aesthetically.
Page 710
Most of what passes for aesthetic appreciation does not begin to have this effect;
but its failure is only because it is not aesthetic appreciation at all — it is a kind of
tired reverie rather than an intense absorption in the aesthetic object.
Most of what passes for aesthetic appreciation does not begin to have this effect;
but its failure is only because it is not aesthetic appreciation at all — it is a kind of
tired reverie rather than an intense absorption in the aesthetic object.
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