The Importance of Artistic Appreciation

Langer: I was brought to mind of kind of a hermeneutical approach as well. Schlegel makes the point that when it comes to aesthetic appreciation all individuals bring their own experience to it and they have their own individual aesthetic appreciation so there's a sense in which when you create a legitimate good work of art you're creating this broad interpretive field not just for everybody now but for anybody in the future, he says. Langer: The true artist actually will relinquish individuality to the beautiful and minimize that effective individual character. He'll talk about how we can only approach the infinite through our unique characterWe want to do something free there and not just be unconsciously acting out our