Aesthetic Attitude
According to the thinkers who deals with the subjective approach to the problems of aesthetics, aesthetic experience deals with our attitude or how we make-up our mental consciousness to suit ourselves. According to these thinkers, the object that we see it is not considered to be aesthetic but it is the attitude in which we perceive it and the capacity to make a dedicated observation which enables the mind to obtain these aesthetic experiences that matters. Jerome Stolnitz, a chief advocate of the theory of “Aesthetic Experience” believes that the goal of aesthetic experience is that there is no object in the external world which cannot be observed as an aesthetic object provided the observer has a appropriate aesthetic attitude. Other philosophers who strongly support this theory and works in line of this thinking are Edward Bulloough, Sheela Dawson and Ellision Vivas.
The question we must ask ourselves is ‘What is it that we observe something aesthetically’? We always have in mind a thought in whether we should look something (an object or a person) in a specific way, or whether we are hearing something in the right manner or feeling or imagining something correctly in order to consider it as aesthetic. This concept has confused many of the philosophers and psychologists. One philosopher namely, George …show more content…
We always see and hear a number of things in and around us but we only perceive or observe selected things that is guided by our mind for some purpose. We do not look at things that are not relevant to us but we see to it that we observe things that are most relevant and what stimulates us through what our mind is perceived to look at. It is none other than our attitude towards certain things that is making us think and imagine in a way, making us look and hear in a way. It is our attitude that helps us to give specific responses at all
According to the thinkers who deals with the subjective approach to the problems of aesthetics, aesthetic experience deals with our attitude or how we make-up our mental consciousness to suit ourselves. According to these thinkers, the object that we see it is not considered to be aesthetic but it is the attitude in which we perceive it and the capacity to make a dedicated observation which enables the mind to obtain these aesthetic experiences that matters. Jerome Stolnitz, a chief advocate of the theory of “Aesthetic Experience” believes that the goal of aesthetic experience is that there is no object in the external world which cannot be observed as an aesthetic object provided the observer has a appropriate aesthetic attitude. Other philosophers who strongly support this theory and works in line of this thinking are Edward Bulloough, Sheela Dawson and Ellision Vivas.
The question we must ask ourselves is ‘What is it that we observe something aesthetically’? We always have in mind a thought in whether we should look something (an object or a person) in a specific way, or whether we are hearing something in the right manner or feeling or imagining something correctly in order to consider it as aesthetic. This concept has confused many of the philosophers and psychologists. One philosopher namely, George …show more content…
We always see and hear a number of things in and around us but we only perceive or observe selected things that is guided by our mind for some purpose. We do not look at things that are not relevant to us but we see to it that we observe things that are most relevant and what stimulates us through what our mind is perceived to look at. It is none other than our attitude towards certain things that is making us think and imagine in a way, making us look and hear in a way. It is our attitude that helps us to give specific responses at all