How to Be Bored by Eva Hoffman

Author:Eva Hoffman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Picador

Aesthetic appreciation requires keeping the doors of perception open.

Occasionally, we see faces of people in a museum looking up at a painting, rapt in focused concentration. At its most intense, the act of looking at art offers and induces a kind of total aesthetic experience. It is an act of contemplation, in what might be called the Western mode – that is, contemplation focused on an object, rather than on the emptiness within. To achieve it, we need to look with both our physical and our inner vision – to open fully the doors of perception.

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