Modele du Processus d'Experience Esthetique

Abstract

My intention in this article is to clarify the concept of aesthetic experience. It offers a definition and presentation of the stages required to actualize this phenomenon. To begin with, we will examine  the various conceptions  of aesthetic experience, through the  best  known authors in the area of  aesthetics. Through the analysis of these conceptions, we will build the foundation of an aesthetic  experience  model. This will enable us to  better   understand what occurs within individuals when they have an aesthetic experience. Thus, it will  illustrate the stages required to carry out this process  and the behaviors in which it is manifest. Ultimately, the aim is to develop a tool with which to evaluate clearly the  degree of realization of the aesthetic experience in subjects, within  the educational  framework of aesthetic  sensitivity. Therefore, we will review the literature  by  grouping the various  conceptions of aesthetic experience of authors who have influenced the area of  aesthetics the most in the last  ten years,  with  recourse to secondary and even  tertiary  sources. This is a synthesis of a subject that is extremely vague and difficult to organize. In fact, there presently  exists a multitude of aesthetic  theories which emerged  in Europe  since the 18th century, a time in which we began to consider aesthetics as a separate discipline. The authors studied here are for the most part American authors because of their proximity  to us and to our North American lifestyle.