title: Acknowledging the diversity of aesthetic experiences: effects of style, meaning, and context.
abstract: Art can be experienced in numerous ways, ranging from sensory pleasure to elaborated ways of finding meaning (Leder et al. 2004). However, rather ignored by Bullot & Reber (B&R), in empirical aesthetics several lines of research have studied how knowledge of artistic style, descriptive and elaborate information, expertise, and context all affect aesthetic experiences from art. Limiting aesthetics to rather rare experiences unnecessarily narrows the scope of a science of art.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychological Basic Research, University of Vienna, 1010 Vienna, Austria. helmut.leder@univie.ac.at
authors.forename: Helmut
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Leder
mesh_terms: D001154:Art / Q000266:history*; D003071:Cognition; D004954:Esthetics / Q000266:history* / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011584:Psychology / Q000379:methods*