Publisher's Synopsis
While the aesthetic attitude - the state of perceiving that allows the agent to experience objects aesthetically - has figured prominently in aesthetics from the time of the Enlightenment, it has been challenged only in the 20th century.;This book includes a critical review of the most important aesthetic attitude theories, of the criticisms that have been leveled at them and of criticisms of the concept of the aesthetic attitude itself. David Fenner argues that one version of the aesthetic attitude survives the criticism - that which is based on investment of attention and the promise of reward in the form of aesthetic pleasure.;Due to the accessibility of the explanations, and the thoroughness of focus, this book can be used in undergraduate and graduate courses in aesthetics, philosophy of art, art criticism and art history.
