In her blog on Bell, Gloria posed the question; "Does the aesthetic emotion Bell attempts to describe actually exist? Why or why not?"
Yes, I believe the aesthetic emotion Bell attempts to describe actually exists. There may not be a definition for it yet, but it is definitely there. If there was no such aesthetic emotion, why would our society continue to go to the movies? There has to be something, some characteristic embedded in a film or in any artwork for that matter that makes it of interest to us. Why else would we occupy our free time with such things? The point is that when looking at an artwork you feel something even if that something is "nothing." Therefore, aesthetic emotion is existential just as art is existential. There just is no clear definition that everyis of general acceptance yet.
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