Friday, August 30, 2013

Dissonance, Artwork, Artist

As has been proposed, Dissonance can be defined as a certain contrast of Repulsion and Attraction obtaining between 1) an observer, and 2) a certain contrast of Repulsion and Attraction amongst the components of some object.  Thus, the Aesthetic evaluation that abstracts from the internal structure of an object, and includes as a factor an hypothesis regarding the intention of effects of the object on an observer, is a judgment about, more accurately, an Artist, not an Artwork.  So, Kant's concept of Aesthetic Judgment, which is an instance of that concept of Evaluation, lacks the capacity to even recognize Dissonance properly.

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