Aesthetics by Charles Taliaferro

Author:Charles Taliaferro [Taliaferro, Charles]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781780741253
Publisher: Oneworld Publications

Osborne’s vantage point can be appreciated without going all the way back to the Beardsley-Wimsatt strict prohibitions on recourse to intentionality. The point I want to stress here about seeing something in a work of art (or hearing or feeling) is that it involves the virtue of attending to the work on its own terms, allowing the work to work on you as opposed to having the artwork stimulate you into independent reverie.

Given that artworks themselves are bearers of aesthetic properties, attentive observation involves an appreciation of sensory experience within the work as opposed to what is merely associated with the work. Charles Hartshorne’s understanding of emotions and colors seems to accurately reflect true lived experience of gazing at and into the artwork’s different layers:

The ‘affective’ tonality, the aesthetic or tertiary quality, usually supposed to be merely ‘associated with’ a sensory quality is, in part at least, identical with the quality, one with its nature or essence. Thus, the ‘gaiety’ of yellow (the peculiar highly specific gaiety) is the yellowness of the yellow.

(Hartshorne 1968, 7)

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