Re: Abstractism

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 07 2002 - 12:27:00 GMT

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    Hi Joe Dees -

    >The marks are configured by their maker to prompt very specific
    >apprehensions in their readers, and they succeed in doing so, not
    >perfectly, but quite well, and certainly better than random.

    Aesthetics is the study of how and why such configurations do what they
    do.

    - Wade

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