ISBN : 9780198811619
Bence Nanay explores how many influential debates in aesthetics look very different, and may be easier to tackle, if we clarify the assumptions they make about perception and experience. He focuses on the ways in which the distinction between distributed and focused attention can help us re-evaluate various key concepts and debates in aesthetics.
1 Aesthetics; 2 Distributed attention; 3 Pictures; 4 Aesthetically relevant properties; 5 Semi-Formalism; 6 Uniqueness; 7 The history of vision; 8 Non-distributed attention