THE PERFECT SPECTATOR:
THE EXPERIENCE OF THE ARTWORK AND RECEPTION AESTHETICS
Author: Janneke Wesseling
Published by Valiz
English
256 pages, 17 x 23 cm
ISBN 9789080818507
Price: 124 lei
What happens between a spectator and an artwork? How do we experience “meaning” in a work of art? How can the process of interpretation be understood and articulated? To address these questions, art critic Janneke Wesseling, director of the international doctorate programme in visual art and design at Leiden University in the Netherlands, explores the field of reception aesthetics. Based on her own doctoral dissertation, the book’s central premise deepens the field of thought surrounding the contemplation of art as a matter of interaction between the artwork and the observer.