Aesthetic Experience, Transitional Objects and the Third Space
The Fusion of Audience and Aesthetic Objects in the Performing Arts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4759375 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ian Woodward (0000-0003-2870-5822, Griffith University), David Ellison (0000-0002-3755-6024, Griffith University) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 45-53 |
| Publication date | 2010-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Thesis Eleven (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0725513610381374 |
| OpenAlex | W2089699628 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
Aesthetic experience has been relativized and marginalized by recent social and cultural theory. As less attention has been paid to understanding the nature of aesthetic experience than mapping the distributed social correlates of tastes, its transformative potential and capacity to animate actors' imaginations and actions goes unexplored. In this paper we draw upon a large number of in-depth interviews with performing arts audiences around Australia to investigate the language and discourse used to describe aesthetic experiences. In particular, we begin with theorizations of the subject-object nexus within object-relations theory to consider the transformative potential of aesthetic experience. Using these literatures, and extending them to others within sociology of the arts and materiality, our focus is on the way aesthetic experience can fuse human subjects with aesthetic objects. We examine how viewers take an aesthetic object into themselves and in turn project themselves into the aesthetic object by various visual and imaginative techniques. Our theoretical and empirical analysis bears out the constructive and productive capacity of aesthetic experience
Aesthetic experience · Aesthetics · Art · Art criticism · Constructive · Materiality (auditing) · Object (grammar) · Sociology · Subject (documents) · The arts · Transformative learning · Visual arts · Computer Science · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2022 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |