Open AccessArt and emotion: the variety of aesthetic emotions and their internal dynamics
Author(s) -
Piotr Przybysz
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
interdisciplinary studies in musicology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2657-9197
pISSN - 1734-2406
DOI - 10.14746/ism.2020.20.5
Subject(s) - embodied cognition , dynamics (music) , variety (cybernetics) , interpretation (philosophy) , psychology , aesthetic experience , associative property , aesthetics , cognitive psychology , cognitive science , epistemology , art , computer science , philosophy , linguistics , artificial intelligence , mathematics , pedagogy , pure mathematics
The aim of this paper is to propose an interpretation of aesthetic emotions in which they are treated as various affective reactions to a work of art. I present arguments that there are three different types of such aesthetic emotional responses to art, i.e., embodied emotions, epistemic emotions and contextual-associative emotions. I then argue that aesthetic emotions understood in this way are dynamic wholes that need to be explained by capturing and describing their internal temporal dynamics as well as by analyzing the relationships with the other components of aesthetic experience.