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| Author: | Joy, A. Sherry Jr., J.F. |
| Title: | Speaking of art as embodied imagination: a multisensory approach to understanding aesthetic experience |
| Journal: | Journal of Consumer Research
2003 : SEP, VOL. 30:2, p. 259-282 |
| Index terms: | Art Cognition Emotions Museums |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The focus of this article is on somatic experience, not just the process of thinking bodily but how the body informs the logic of thinking about art. The links between embodiment, movement and multisensory experience insofar as they help to elucidate the contours of art appreciation in a museum are examined. The authors argue that embodiment can be identified at two levels: the phenomenological and the cognitive unconscious. At the first level, individuals are conscious of their feelings and actions while, at the second level, sensorimotor and other bodily oriented inference mechanisms inform their processes of abstract thought and reasoning. The consumption stories of 30 museum goers are analyzed in order to understand how people move through musemum spaces and feel, touch, hear, smell and taste art. |
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