title: A bridge too far: from basic exposure to understanding in artistic experience.
abstract: In the context of a broad welcome to Bullot & Reber's (B&R's) proposals concerning the incorporation of contextual awareness into the study of the psychology of art appreciation, I raise two concerns. First, the proposal makes no allowance for degrees of relevance of contextual awareness to appreciation. Second, the authors assume that "basic exposure" and "artistic understanding" can be maintained as separate phases or modes, but this may be more problematic than anticipated.
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, University of Durham, Durham DH1 3HP, United Kingdom. elisabeth.schellekens@durham.ac.uk
authors.forename: Elisabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Schellekens
mesh_terms: D001154:Art / Q000266:history*; D003071:Cognition; D004954:Esthetics / Q000266:history* / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011584:Psychology / Q000379:methods*