The Aesthetic Field: A Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience

As the essential public assets for sustainable development, Highway should provide for people not only the enjoyment of convenient and safe transportation, but also the fulfillment of visual pleasure and aesthetic appeal. Taking the highway as the aesthetic object and making the research in aesthetic perception and the process of psychological experience of the aesthetic subject are of great importance to highway landscape planning and design. The aesthetic subject and object of highway landscape are defined and their relationship between the two is explored based on the analysis of characteristics and principles of highway aesthetics in the paper. And the conception of the highway landscape aesthetic field is also introduced. In view of the aesthetic characteristics of highway landscape, the aesthetic process is studied in detail from three phrases of aesthetic expectation and aesthetic attention, aesthetic expansion and aesthetic perception, and aesthetic dispersion. Taking Guangdong Fokai highway for example, the aesthetic psychological expanding process of highway landscape is finally analyzed.

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A Study of Character education for college students based on the philosophy of the body and the aesthetic experience

Korean Association For Learner-Centered Curriculum And Instruction ◽

10.22251/jlcci.2016.16.9.827 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 16 (9) ◽

pp. 827-844 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Bok-Cheol Jeong ◽

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Hyun-Min Lee ◽

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Character Education ◽

Aesthetic Experience ◽

The Body ◽

The Aesthetic

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Schopenhauer and the Paradox of the Sublime

The Oxford Handbook of Schopenhauer ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190660055.013.14 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 237-255

Author(s):

Bart Vandenabeele

Keyword(s):

Aesthetic Experience ◽

Human Being ◽

Aesthetic Object ◽

Human Reason ◽

The Sublime ◽

The World ◽

The Aesthetic

Schopenhauer explores the paradoxical nature of the aesthetic experience of the sublime in a richer way than his predecessors did by rightfully emphasizing the prominent role of the aesthetic object and the ultimately affirmative character of the pleasurable experience it offers. Unlike Kant, Schopenhauer’s doctrine of the sublime does not appeal to the superiority of human reason over nature but affirms the ultimately “superhuman” unity of the world, of which the human being is merely a puny fragment. The author focuses on Schopenhauer’s treatment of the experience of the sublime in nature and argues that Schopenhauer makes two distinct attempts to resolve the paradox of the sublime and that Schopenhauer’s second attempt, which has been neglected in the literature, establishes the sublime as a viable aesthetic concept with profound significance.

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Exploring Tourist Behavior in a Reused Heritage Site

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research ◽

10.1177/10963480211020089 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 109634802110200

Author(s):

Yi-Ju Lee ◽

I-Ying Tsai ◽

Te-Yi Chang

Keyword(s):

Behavioral Intention ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Aesthetic Experience ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Tourist Behavior ◽

Heritage Site ◽

Modeling Analysis ◽

Heritage Buildings ◽

The Aesthetic ◽

The Relationship

This study investigated the relationship among tourists’ perceived sustainability, aesthetic experience, and behavioral intention toward reused heritage buildings by employing stimulus–organism–response theory. There were 354 valid questionnaires collected from the Sputnik Lab in Tainan, Taiwan. A positive correlation was found between tourists’ perception of sustainability and aesthetic experience. When tourists perceived higher aesthetic experience, they also had stronger behavioral intention. Structural equation modeling analysis verified that the aesthetic experience of tourists had mediating effects between perceived sustainability and behavioral intention in the reused heritage space. The reuse of space should be attached significantly to the aesthetic display of space and service so as to promote such scenic spots and increase tourists’ intention to revisit through word of mouth.

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The Role of Understanding on Architectural Beauty: Evidence From the Impact of Semantic Description on the Aesthetic Evaluation of Architecture

Psychological Reports ◽

10.1177/00332941211002135 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 003329412110021

Author(s):

Sizhe Liu ◽

Wei Zhang ◽

Xianyou He ◽

Xiaoxiang Tang ◽

Shuxian Lai ◽

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Keyword(s):

Aesthetic Experience ◽

Supplementary Information ◽

Aesthetic Evaluation ◽

Abstract Description ◽

Social Meanings ◽

Different Types ◽

Appearance Design ◽

The Aesthetic ◽

The Impact

There is evidence that greater aesthetic experience can be linked to artworks when their corresponding meanings can be successfully inferred and understood. Modern cultural-expo architecture can be considered a form of artistic creation and design, and the corresponding design philosophy may be derived from representational objects or abstract social meanings. The present study investigates whether cultural-expo architecture with an easy-to-understand architectural appearance design is perceived as more beautiful and how architectural photographs and different types of descriptions of architectural appearance designs interact and produce higher aesthetic evaluations. The results showed an obvious aesthetic preference for cultural-expo architecture with an easy-to-understand architectural appearance design (Experiment 1). Moreover, we found that the aesthetic rating score of architectural photographs accompanied by an abstract description was significantly higher than that of those accompanied by a representational description only under the difficult-to-understand design condition (Experiment 2). The results indicated that people preferred cultural-expo architecture with an easy-to-understand architectural appearance design due to a greater understanding of the design, providing further evidence that abstract descriptions can provide supplementary information and explanation to enhance the sense of beauty of abstract cultural-expo architecture.

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