An investigation of aesthetic appreciation
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This dissertation comprises three papers in investigating the essential topics around aesthetic appreciation. The first paper examines George Dickie's Institutional theory on defining artworks and challenges his theory by analyzing the critical concepts like artifactuality and the candidacy of the status of appreciation. Further, it introduces a perceptional approach, an innovative method of interpreting one's perceptual experience combined with imagination, to defining art. The second paper proposes an evolutionary account of one's aesthetic engagement with artworks, which indicates a plausible way of understanding Hume's discussion of the standard of taste and the puzzle it generates. The third paper reconstructs Edward Bullough's Distance theory in response to his critic, George Dickie. Based on the clarification of the original ideas proposed by Bullough, the principle of distance is proved to be practical for understanding the various states of one's aesthetic appreciation.
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Ph. D.