The Fear of Aesthetics in Art and Literary Theory

Rose, Sam

doi:10.1353/nlh.2017.0011

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“…2 For an example of the aesthetic narrowly understood see Coleman (2004): "… with highly symbolic works, an inability to comprehend meaning does not appear to impede our aesthetic sense at all". For criticism of views of this kind see Currie (2012); for a convergent assessment see Rose (2017). 3 See Walton (1970) for a classic statement of this rejection.…”

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Aesthetic sense and social cognition: a story from the Early Stone Age

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Zhu

2019

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Human aesthetic practices show a sensitivity to the ways that the appearance of an artefact manifests skills and other qualities of the maker. We investigate a possible origin for this kind of sensibility, locating it in the need for coordination of skill-transmission in the Acheulean stone tool culture. We argue that our narrative supports the idea that Acheulean agents were aesthetic agents. In line with this we offer what may seem an absurd comparison: between the Acheulean and the Quattrocento. In making it we display some hidden complexity in human aesthetic responses to an artefact. We conclude with a brief review of rival explanationsbiological and/or cultural-of how this skills-based sensibility became a regular feature of human aesthetic practices.

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